Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B.

The thesis of this book is that Williams played a key role in the development and revival of analytic metaphysics.

In the last few decades, analytical philosophers have rediscovered an interest in the subject of metaphysics.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa.

Bernard Lonergan's De constitutione Christi was written to accompany a course being taught in Latin at the Gregorian University, Rome during the 1950s and 60s.

For nineteenth-century thinkers, the central problem of religious consciousness in the modern West was the tension between prevailing concepts of individual autonomy and the traditional Judaeo-Christian claim for divine revelation.

Professor Brown in this volume discusses one of the most difficult questions in metaphysics, “what is action?

Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty.

In Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things.

In Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things.

How do things come to stand for something other than themselves?

Do our lives have meaning?

Heroes, Sages and Madmen is not a book for everyone, but its potent message is about everyone.

Contemporarydebates on free will are numerous and multifaceted.

Free Will in Philosophical Theology takes the most recent philosophical work on free will and uses it to elucidate and explore theological doctrines involving free will.

Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics.

Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics.

Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

Aristotle's
Metaphysics is an extremely rich and important philosophical work that
continues to inspire reflection and debate.

Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts.

In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of reality's relations to appearances?

Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy.

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of thought and consciousness Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating field.

Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

There is a tradition of interpreting Heidegger's remarks on logic as an attempt to flout, revise, or eliminate logic, and of thus characterizing Heidegger as an irrationalist.

This book brings Aquinas and Heidegger into dialogue and offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.

Contemporarydebates on free will are numerous and multifaceted.

Baruch Spinoza began his studies learning Hebrew and the Talmud, only to be excommunicated at the age of twenty-four for supposed heresy.

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of thought and consciousness Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating field.

Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts.

Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology presents an important new examination of ethics and ontology in Heidegger.

This book tackles some of the deepest problems in Berkeley's philosophy by providing a fresh interpretation of Berkeley's core ontological doctrines and their relationship to his views about self-consciousness.

Free Will in Philosophical Theology takes the most recent philosophical work on free will and uses it to elucidate and explore theological doctrines involving free will.

Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy.

Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence.

Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology presents an important new examination of ethics and ontology in Heidegger.

There is a tradition of interpreting Heidegger's remarks on logic as an attempt to flout, revise, or eliminate logic, and of thus characterizing Heidegger as an irrationalist.

Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence.

Metaphysics is usually associated with that part of the philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions such as: How many substances are there in the world?

On the Intrinsic Value of Everything is an illuminating introduction to fundamental questions in ethics.

Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into the perennial philosophical problem of 'truth'.

Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuated by their matter.