Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The subject of this book is the first person in thought and language.

This book explores two questions that are integral to the question of the existence of God.

This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.

How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian.

In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume's treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity.

Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between Leibniz and Kant.

Diese Ausgabe bietet erstmals einen Schlüsseltext für die Reformation der Metaphysik in der Philosophie der Renaissance in deutscher Übersetzung.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we?

Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings.

What does it mean to be truthful?

This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences.

Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century.

This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics.

Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds.

Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world, offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that consciousness is nothing over and above the physical.

Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions.

The idea of the pre-existence of the soul has been extremely important, widespread, and persistent throughout Western history--from even before the philosophy of Plato to the poetry of Robert Frost.

This Element explores the metaphysical enterprise of truthmaking, which studies how truth depends upon ontology.

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch's major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time.

Samuel Newlands provides a sweeping new account of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way it shapes and is shaped by his moral project.

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher who has influenced twentieth-century intellectual history via such thinkers as Heidegger, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, and Max Scheler, is subjected to careful analysis in this book.

This book begins with a survey of various readings of Locke as a materialist, as a substance dualist, and as a property dualist, and demonstrates that these inconsistent interpretations result from a general failure of modern commentators to notice the significance of Locke's 'mind-body nominalism'.

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox.

The book presents a detailed examination of many key aspects of philosophizing, ranging from the mission of philosophy, its method, its dialectic, and its epistemology.

Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology.

Human finitude and its implications have long been one of the central themes of Western philosophy.

The articles in this volume discuss the relation between values and ontology, focusing on the significance of ontology for ethics and aesthetics, i.

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind.

Nominalism, which has its origins in the Middle Ages and continues into the Twenty-First Century, is the doctrine that there are no universals.

Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis.

Presenting a realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics and, in particular, a realistic view of quantum waves, this book defends, with one exception, Schrodinger's views on quantum mechanics.

For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible.

Originally published in 1989.

For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled with the problem of evil.

Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of the present inquiry.

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms.

This book is D.

In The X-Files and Philosophy, thirty-six fearless philosophers seek for the truth which is out there, in here, at least somewhere, or (as the postmodernists claim) nowhere.

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable.

This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users.

Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world.

Causal powers are ubiquitous.