Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In the first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, a set of exemplary stories raise deep questions about who and what we are.

Was ist das Sein?

Being a salvage of cancellations and hallucinations, and for the forgotten and misbegotten, a preservation of things muddied, made washed and laid bare against bleached white, seeking far and nearby in an ever'flowing effervescent stream of thoughts and treatments of dream, this spell is something like blowing wind into one's sails, but into those sails memories past, impel themselves and become more romancing than real.

This volume explores the phenomenological notion of essence and related concepts.

Whitehead's Philosophical Development: A Critical History of the Background of Process and Reality by Nathaniel Lawrence offers the first systematic map of Alfred North Whitehead's intellectual trajectory, culminating in his famously difficult Gifford Lectures.

Whitehead's Philosophical Development: A Critical History of the Background of Process and Reality by Nathaniel Lawrence offers the first systematic map of Alfred North Whitehead's intellectual trajectory, culminating in his famously difficult Gifford Lectures.

This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism.