Metaphysics category: 2011 books

Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for a cure for cancer?...

This book constitutes the first treatment of C. S. Peirce’s unique concept of habit. Habit animated the pragmatists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who picked up the baton from classical scholars, principally Aristotle. Most prominent among the pragmatists thereafter is Charles Sanders Peirce....

Who am I? Who are you? What is an identity--really? Our self, while generally considered a solo identity, is but one horse on the carousel of our being. On the other side of self, our connection to our plurality, and all plurality, makes up the fabric of life. The human journey is a quilt of...

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm...

Two main schools of religious thinking exist in our midst at the present day: the school of humanists and the school of animists. This work is to some extent an attempt to reconcile them. It contains, I believe, the first extended effort that has yet been made to trace the genesis of the belief in...

Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy...

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to explain rationality by viewing the mind as a kind of machine—the only alternative, it has seemed, to a ghostly supernatural explanation. Marcus rejects this choice as false and defends a third way—via rational causation, which draws on the theoretical and practical inferential abilities of human beings.

This writing treats the subject of Pythagorean arithmosophy, talking about the possible Egyptean roots of some of the central concepts of this system of thinking, explaining in the same time the method used by ancient Egyptians for multiplication, which actually is a very intuitive one.

This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the...

Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts—the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resolving...

This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer’s doctoral dissertation (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason) for both Schopenhauer’s more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject...

This is the book I would, long ago, have loved to own. It would have saved me from much anguish, doubts and confusion. Containing over fifty years of my experience, Entering the Secret World of Nature is a brilliant and comprehensive guide on how you can enter realms of wonderment. We are not prisoners...

A very, very ancient Soul in the Universe sets up a convention, to send love and light to the souls on Earth. All the stories and all the love declarations made by those present at the Convention are broadcasted straight to Earth, through a Channel of Light, so that the people of Earth may experience...

A timely reminder of our spiritual journey and true purpose on Earth. Joseph Raffa shares an inspirational message for those who care to listen. “Explore the planets, the outer reaches of space, the depths of the seas. Burrow into the earth, climb every mountain. When you have seen...