Metaphysics category: 2011 books
Mind Is the Athlete
An Exploration of Consciousness and Cause
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Scientific Metaphysics is an exploration of the nature of reality from the standpoint that Consciousness sources and constitutes every aspect of life. Consciousness constructs.
This book inquires into the fundamental nature of reality and of human beings, functioning as a unique entity. This...
Between Experience and Metaphysics
Philosophical Problems of the Evolution of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Josef Bengtson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence. It explores different answers to the question of how people of diverse religious and cultural identities can live together peacefully.
by Sarah Borden Sharkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition....
The Rational and the Real
An Essay in Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A book with so Hegelian a title should, I suppose, be more Hegelian than this one. I share with Hegel the conviction that the rational is the real and the real is the rational. I have learned something from Hegel and borrowed here and there. But the reader should not jump to conclusions. I rather...
A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Nothing short of a metaphysical disturbance and metaphysical revolution of the highest order can resolve the West's and the world's current cultural, political, and civilizational problems. Dr. Redpath's contribution to resolving this metaphysical crisis has been chiefly to add to the vision of his...
The Metaphysics of Action
Trying, Doing, Causing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical...
The Distinction of Human Being
An Introduction to the Logotectonic Method of Conception
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Perhaps we are never done with thought, nor should be. If this is indeed the case, then Kant may have been right after all in supposing that folks will never lose interest in metaphysics, in thought thinking thought. But what of academics? Where would we find these days a comprehensive treatment of...
Hegel's Actuality Chapter of the Science of Logic
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
This book explores Hegel’s theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close textual analysis of the “Actuality” chapter of Hegel’s Science of Logic. The “Actuality” chapter is the equivalence of Aristotle’s momentous Metaphysics book 9. Because...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
The metaphysics of ordinary objects is an increasingly vibrant field of study for philosophers. This volume gathers insights from a number of leading authors, who together tackle the central issues in contemporary debates about the subject. Their essays engage with topics including composition, persistence,...
Thisness Presentism
An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is...
The Philosophy of John Dewey
A Critical Exposition of His Method, Metaphysics, and Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
John Dewey ranks as the most influential of America's philosophers. That in fluence stems, in part, from the originality of his mind, the breadth of his in terests, and his capacity to synthesize materials from diverse sources. In addi tion, Dewey was blessed with a long life and the extraordinary...
One
Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics—including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness—and deploys the techniques of paraconsistent...
The Revolutionary Kant
A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Revolutionary Kant offers a new appreciation of Kant’s classic, arguing that Kant's reform of philosophy was far more radical than has been previously understood. The book examines his proposed revolutionary reform - to abandon traditional metaphysics and point philosophy in a new direction...