Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion.

Conscience is an essential human attribute.

Thomas von Aquin ist 'der' Denker des Mittelalters, der die am längsten anhaltende Orientierung geboten, die intensivsten historischen Interessen auf sich gezogen und - neben seiner Bedeutung als Kirchenlehrer - für die vielfältigsten denkerischen Konzeptionen Pate gestanden hat und dessen Werk daher noch heute auf praktisch allen Feldern philosophischer Problemstellungen Anregungen zu geben vermag.

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons.

In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege contended that the difference between concepts and objects was absolute.

This book provides an in-depth and rigorous examination of key 20th-century American thinker, Paul Holmer; his work in both theology and philosophy; and his under-explored writings on Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.

An investigatation of the influence of psychology and early phenomenology on the origins of analytic philosophy.

Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period.

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality.

This book constitutes the first treatment of C.

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste.

Adorno s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960 61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger s philosophy.

This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions.

Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy and philosophical theology.

The mainstream approach to the understanding of pain continues to be governed by the biomedical paradigm and the dualistic Cartesian ontology.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics.

Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it.

This collection addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore traditional epistemological concerns.

Structure or system is a ubiquitous and uneliminable feature of all our experience and theory, and requires an ontological analysis.

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible.

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts.

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation?

Dogma's Primrose Path addresses how the perpetual presence of ignorance, poverty, and war throughout the world is accepted by most people as an inevitable consequence of human life given man's incurably evil, greedy, and violent nature.

Rom Harre's career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences.

In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the "e;simple"e; or "e;anti-criterial"e; view of personal identity warrants a robust defense.

This book empirically investigates the nature of time biases.

This book is the first major study of the theme of misanthropy, its history, arguments both for and against it, and its significance for us today.

Kim Chestneys codes bring you closer to the comprehension of a reality that was wholly hidden prior to the quantum discoveries.

This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model.

Evolution of the concepts of atom and atomism, and the impact of electromagnetism on our worldview, is the object of our study in this book.

The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders.

Unter den philosophischen Disziplinen ist die Metaphysik die älteste.

This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.

Brian Loar (1939-2014) was an eminent and highly respected philosopher of mind and language.

Originally published in 2001, Hegel's Metaphysics of God presents Hegel's response to Kant's claim that metaphysics in general and, in particular, knowledge of God, is beyond the grasp of human knowledge.

The concept of process is often used but seldom discussed.

The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

A lucid and comprehensive introduction to one of Berkeley''s major works which mirrors the structure of that work.

What kind of animals are human beings?