Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

From Finding to Making offers the first detailed discussion of the relationship between Marxism and pragmatism.

'Soul', 'self', 'substance' and 'person' are just four of the terms often used to refer to the human individual.

This publication investigates how Karl Barth's doctrine of time and eternity can contribute to the continued understanding of the relationship of divine eternity to time or temporality.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings.

As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research.

Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book offers an analytically rigorous and systematic discussion of possible ways of making metaphysical sense of ineffability.

In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism.

Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly every area of philosophy.

Part 1, Human Experience, examines the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth.

Dualism, unlike monism, is a system that allows for dynamic and dramatic possibilities.

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This volume is a mosaic of autobiographical excerpts from Paul Brunton's notebooks.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

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

Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility.

First published in 1931, A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche examines the theories which constitute the philosophical system of Malebranche.

Building upon the "e;preliminary conception of Phenomenology"e; introduced by Heidegger in section II of the Introduction to Sein und zeit,l one may say that a phenomenology of death would mean: "e;to let death, as that which shows itself, be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development is a volume devoted to exploring the core theoretical and disciplinary research problems of emergence processes from which systems are established.

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed.

This title was first published in 2000.

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.

Focusing on moments of continuity and rupture, as well as the thin lines of fracture in Critical philosophy itself, Metaphysics of Nature and Failure in Kant's Opus postumum navigates the rough terrain of Kant's final thoughts.

My purpose in this study is to explore various forms of irrationality and to name some true irrationals in order to find the bounds of reason.

This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users.

This book presents a new, contemporary introduction to medieval philosophy as it was practiced in all its variety in Western Europe and the Near East.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century.

This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

This book discusses various aspects of God's causal activity.

Bill Brewer presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception.

What is death?

Published in honor of Sergio Galvan, this collection concentrates on the application of logical and mathematical methods for the study of central issues in formal philosophy.

Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

This volume explores the work of Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) with respect to his ontology, epistemology and aesthetics.

Two opposed movements of thought threaten philosophy as an autonomous practice from the inside: scientific naturalism and quietism.

Peter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate it, including those within ethical, political, economic, technological, and ecological realms.

What is truth?

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This book studies the philosophical work of George Santayana and the nature of his work's relationship with that of American philosopher William James.

The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself.

In dem Buch 'Vom Nichts zum unvergänglichen Sein in Fülle --- Wiedergeburt und Erneuerung im Heiligen Geist' wird versucht mit Hilfe von anschaulichen Grafiken die christliche Lehre über das Wesen Gottes und den uns Menschen von Gott angebotenen Weg zu IHM darzulegen.

Philosophers approach the problem of possibility in two markedly different ways: with reference to worlds, whereby an event is possible if there is a world in which it occurs, and with reference to modal properties, whereby an event is a possible manifestation of a property of some substance or object.

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Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of Immanuel Kant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity.

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything?

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research.

Maitreya's Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is the main Indian treatise on buddha nature, a concept that is heavily debated in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.