Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

There is little more than a decade left before the bells allover the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will surely be an era of highly advanced technology.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) stands among the greatest thinkers of the Western world.

Probability has become one of the most characteristic con- cepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our in- tellectual life.

Tadeusz Kotarbinski is one of towering figures in contemporary Polish philosophy.

This Ingardenia volume is the second in the Analecta Husserliana series that is entirely devoted to the phenomenology of Roman Ingarden.

lbis volume was occasioned by the desire of its contributors to honor Robert Sokolowski on his sixtieth birthday.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.

In my early years I was constituted in the exacting imperatives of philosophical analysis.

The English Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Adam of Wodeham (d.

It has been a constant intention of the series of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY to present to the philosophical reader books which probed the frontiers of contemporary philosophy.

Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification is neither eliminable, substitutional, nor referential.

Elements of Ethics examines Meinong's value theory from an epistemological standpoint and gives a critical exposition of Meinong's first attempts at a deontic logic; special consideration is given to the Law of Omission.

Over the last twenty-five years the significance of criminal justice has dramatically changed.

This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness.

This volume discusses the importance of Peirce's philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life.

Cet ouvrage est la première monographie systématique d’expression française dédiée exclusivement au problème heideggérien de la mort.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Forschungsmanuskripte aus dem Nachlass Edmund Husserls zu vier miteinander zusammenhängenden Themenbereichen.

This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy.

This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa's profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond.

This volume aims at giving the reader an overview over the most recent theoretical and methodological findings in a new and rapidly evolving area of current theory of society: social ontology.

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse.

This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

This book provides an analytical interpretation of Leibniz's 'Essais de Theodicee' with wide-ranging references to all his works.

The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth.

The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth.

Information and communication technologies of the 20th century have had a significant impact on our daily lives.

Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations.

This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit.

This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy-the concept of existence itself-reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: "e;Existence is not a predicate.

This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics.

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought.

This highly personal account of a lifetime's spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author's journey of faith through contemporary culture.

This volume contains outstanding studies by some of the best scholars in ancient Greek Philosophy on key topics in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.

The controversy of flux and stasis as the groundwork of reality of Greek ancient philosophy reached its crux in the all encompassing doctrine of the logos by Heraclitus of Ephesus.

Numerous volumes have been written on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and new translations of his writings appear on a regular basis.

The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy.

This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009.

Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality.

Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times?

I first became interested in the relationship between Locke's anti- essentialism and his theory of identity in a first-year graduate course on metaphysics taught at Syracuse University by Jose Benardete.

Das Buch bietet die erste systematische esamtdarstellung der Ontologie Brentanos.

"e;There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate"e;, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery.

A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare.