Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The first of its kind, this essay collection offers an extensive examination of Spinoza''s relationship to medieval Jewish philosophy.

This book celebrates the research career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting sixteen new and critical essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends.

Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separately.

This work presents a historically informed, systematic exposition of the Christology of the first seven Ecumenical Councils of undivided Christendom, from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 AD.

The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living.

This volume collects fifteen original essays on E.

This book offers an introductory review to a wide range of thinking, formulated over the last half-millennium in the Western world, about the meaning of human existence.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

First Published in 1972, Introduction to Systems Philosophy presents Ervin Laszlo's first comprehensive volume on the subject.

Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations.

This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit.

Im Dialogfragment »Clara« aus der Zeit der Romantik diskutieren ein Pfarrer und ein Arzt mit der gleichnamigen Protagonistin über die Fortdauer der Seele nach dem Tod.

This Element analyses dispositions and powers and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality.

This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals.

The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being.

Is there a connection between the environmental, climate, and political crises facing us today and Western dualism?

Are there any mind-independent objects?

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language.

In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline.

Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and Phenomenon calls attention to the dynamic interaction that takes place between hermeneutics and phenomenology in Ricoeur's thought.

In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis.

Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians.

Die sogenannte »Preisschrift über die Fortschritte der Metaphysik« hat in den letzten Jahren überraschend wenig Aufmerksamkeit in der Kantforschung erfahren.

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

In a new reading of Immanuel Kant's work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these - rather than the problem of reason - as the two central pivoting orientations of his work.

Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy.

This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future.

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism.

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond.

An analysis of ''comparative thinking'': integrating living systems into models of the evolutionary processes which shaped them.

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This book is an exploration and defense of the coherence of classical theism's doctrine of divine aseity in the face of the challenge posed by Platonism with respect to abstract objects.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is well-known for his introspective turn away from sensible bodies and toward non-sensory ideas of mind, body, and God.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy.

Popper's Critical Rationalism presents Popper's views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in light of recent developments in philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology.

This Contemporary Introduction is for at students of metaphysics who have already done an introductory philosophy course.