Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Reinholds Antwort auf die legendäre Frage des Pilatus «Was ist die Wahrheit?

A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.

The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.

Relationalism about space is a venerable doctrine that is enjoying renewed attention among philosophers and physicists.

Originally published in 1980.

The main aim of this book is to discuss fundamental developments on the question of being in Western and African philosophy using analytic metaphysics as a framework.

This book offers a comprehensive account of how uncertainty is tackled in medicine and the health sciences.

The central question in this book is why it seems reasonable for the words of our language to divide up the world in ordinary ways rather than other imaginable ways.

In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly.

Der sechste Band der »Philosophischen Schriften« enthält die aristotelische Physik und die Schrift »Über die Seele« (De anima).

Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics?

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality.

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century.

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since.

In this book, Yaqub describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth.

Terrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers.

For some centuries now the western world has endeavored to choose between rationalism and empiricism; or, when a choice was found impossible, somehow to reconcile them.

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.

Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time,Real Time.

A novel and philosophically illuminating account of Descartes''s metaphysics and its immediate historical context.

Published in honor of Sergio Galvan, this collection concentrates on the application of logical and mathematical methods for the study of central issues in formal philosophy.

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 volume presents new essays exploring important aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy in connection with two major themes: mind and nature.

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.

The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value of the thought of F.

Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning.

This collection explores the structure of consciousness and its place in the world.

Im Diabolischen, das die Welt durchherrscht, wird ein Bedeutungsüberschuss spürbar, der durch keine wissenschaftliche Betrachtung abzudecken ist.

Brueckner and Ebbs debate whether a person can coherently doubt that she knows what thoughts her utterances express.

Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist?

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted.

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Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge about the concrete world around us, and more abstract matters such as mathematics, metaphysics, and morality.

The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics.

This work is a historical study of the philosophical writings emerging from Imperial Russia's theological "e;academies"e; - Orthodoxy's higher educational institutions that ran parallel to the secular universities - from their inception to the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Origin of the Soul is a contemporary retrieval of an important theological discussion throughout history.

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B.

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The revised edition of the Cambridge translation of one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought.

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F.

Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike.

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism.

This book is an insightful exploration of Aquinas''s views on how Christ could be both divine and human but still only be one person.