Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

Might we be parts of a divine mind?

Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience.

This scrupulously researched and rigorously argued book is the first to interpret and evaluate the central topic of Martin Heidegger's philosophy--his celebrated "e;Question of Being"e;--in the context of the full range of Heidegger's thought.

One goal of epistemology is to refute the skeptic.

Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics is contrasted with more traditional aesthetics, and the ontology and logic is viewed in contrast to both other contemporary philosophers and to Goodman's historical predecessors.

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.

Lamentations over the disarray and disorientation in the philosophical quest may be heard from all sides today.

Both volumes of this work have as their central concern to sort out who one is from what one is.

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law.

Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation.

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Leibniz's metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science.

This book investigates central issues in the philosophy of memory.

Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem.

Man as a Place of God is an examination of Levinas' philosophy of religion in the light of his ethics and anthropology.

From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning.

Beauty fulfils human existence.

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model.

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw.

Savas L.

Challenges and Focus This book focuses on three interdependent research initiatives designed to facilitate the management of transitions toward sustainable development.

According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth.

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries.

This book is devoted to fictional entities or, to be more precise, fictional entities as they emerge from the literary process of storytelling.

Can the straight line be analysed mathematically such that it does not fall apart into a set of discrete points, as is usually done but through which its fundamental continuity is lost?

According to our commonsense view of the matter, beliefs, desires, intentions and the like are special kinds of internal states the possession of which by a given cr- ture potentially explains its behavior and otherwise renders the creature intelligible to us.

In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a translation of a German paper (Chapter 12), and one newly written for this volume (Chapter 16), which, however, is only my recent attempt to properly and completely express an argument I had given in two earlier papers.

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks.

Leibniz's notion of possibility is one of his most significant contributions to philosophy as well as one of the cornerstones of his metaphysics.

Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years.

Norman G.

Purpose Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides' writings.

This volume was conceived as a Festschrift to surprise Alvin Plantinga on his 70th birthday.

This book is an exploration of what it takes for an event to count as an action.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

Responsibility and Punishment, Third Edition presents a clear-headed defense of retributivism against several long-standing criticisms.

By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being.

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001.

Having established in the ontopoiesis/phenomenology of life the creative function of the human being as the fulcrum of our beingness-in-becoming, let us now turn to investigate the creative logos.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates.