Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

Derek Parfit was one of the world's leading philosophers.

Derek Parfit was one of the world's leading philosophers.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

Does God Matter?

Does God Matter?

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song.

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

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.

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.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

This title was first published in 2003.

Ellis shows that realistic theories of quantum mechanics, time, causality and human freedom - all problematic areas for the acceptance of scientific realism - can be developed satisfactorily.

Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as "e;bodies,"e; exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.

This title was first published in 2002.

This title was first published in 2002.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

This title was first published in 2001.

This title was first published in 2001.

This title was first published in 2001.

This title was first published in 2001.

Winner of the hegelpd-prize 2022Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence.

Winner of the hegelpd-prize 2022Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence.

Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline.

Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline.

For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "e;enormous flywheel"e; of society.

For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "e;enormous flywheel"e; of society.

This title was first published in 2000.

This title was first published in 2000.

Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics.

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible.

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible.

Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics.

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India.

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.