Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge.

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising.

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Cet ouvrage est la première monographie systématique d’expression française dédiée exclusivement au problème heideggérien de la mort.

This book offers new insights into truth, knowledge, and reality.

Elements of Ethics examines Meinong's value theory from an epistemological standpoint and gives a critical exposition of Meinong's first attempts at a deontic logic; special consideration is given to the Law of Omission.

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths.

For a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today.

This book studies literary epiphany as a modality of character in the British and American novel.

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will.

The issue of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated, and it continues to be controversial today.

Discusses and invites students to reflect on topics such as causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, and material objects.

The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education.

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy.

Originally published in 1920, this title wrestles with the critical conflict in modern philosophy of whether philosophers should employ pure reason in a world of abstracts or, rather, should rely upon experience and rationality to examine the actual world.

When down from the moon stepped the goddess of the night, she bid Minerva/Athene come to her.

The book deeply analyses the bilateral relations between Switzerland and the European Union and their effect on the former's sovereignty in the context of Europeanisation.

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man's relationship to God.

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

States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)?

Much has been said on particular feelings that appear in Nietzsche's works, such as pity, revenge, altruism, guilt, shame, and ressentiment.

Does God Matter?

The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness?

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

This book explores and develops a new philosophical argument for the existence of God from metaphysics.

In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary.

Menschliche Praxis ist an Ein- und Übersichten orientiert, die mit Sprache, Erziehung und Bildung erworben, in wissenschaftlicher Arbeit auf begriffliche oder schematisch-mathematische Allgemeinheit gebracht, beständig transformiert und weiter tradiert werden.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together.

Günthers Untersuchungen zu Hegels Kritik der 'formalen' Logik und ihrer metaphysischen Voraussetzungen demonstrieren die Begrenzung der klassischen, zweiwertigen Logik auf das Thema 'Objektivität' ('Sein des Seienden').

A compelling view of existence as a realization of power, possessing an internal structure akin to that of geometrical objects.

Amie L.

The International research Library of Philosophy collects in book form a wide range of important and influential essays in philosophy, drawn predominantly from English-language journals.

Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable.

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can't be right.

Gorner conveys the essence of Heidegger''s project, creating an accessible introduction for students.

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.