Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes.

Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were.

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity, such as: What makes us today the same person as our childhood and future selves?

The concept of the short term involves a complex network of quantitative, qualitative, and operational ideas.

In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem.

Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant.

During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relation between science and philosophy.

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies.

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.

Questions of truth have occupied philosophers, scientists, and theologians throughout human history.

In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the "e;other"e; Kant has been discovered, i.

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.

In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality.

Mit ihrer Studie liefert Maria Daskalaki eine systematische Rekonstruktion des Vernunftbegriffs in Hegels "Phänomenologie des Geistes", die der Absicht des Philosophen gerecht wird, den Gegensatz bzw.

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse.

Salomon Maimon (1753-1800), one of the most fascinating characters of eighteenth-century intellectual history, came from a traditional orthodox Jewish community in Eastern Europe to Berlin to seek Enlightenment.

Ontological arguments promise the philosophical jackpot: armchair proof of God!

Dante's metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own.

Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time (culminating in the 1982 OUP book The Concept of Identity).

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world.

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.

Aphorismen und Passagen, die der Selbstverlassenheit der Individuen in der Moderne entsprechen

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Reissuing five works originally published between 1937 and 1991, this collection contains books addressing the subject of time, from a mostly philosophic point of view but also of interest to those in the science and mathematics worlds.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed.

Winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize as announced at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting on September 27, 2024 The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former's perspective, but without falling into any form of Husserlian apologetics.

This book explores the transition from the mind to the Supermind within the scope of an evolutionary metaphysics.

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P.

Computing systems are ubiquitous in contemporary life.

Im Zentrum von Aristoteles' Kritik an Platon steht der Vorwurf, Platon habe die Ideen zu selbständigen Entitäten erklärt, die von den wahrnehmbaren Dingen getrennt existierten, statt ihnen immanent zu sein.

This book describes and analyzes the levels of experience that long-distance running produces.

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology.

Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philosophical project and the philosophical debates of his day.

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth.

This Element investigates the Odd Universe Argument and its assumptions on the number of things in the Universe.