Metaphysics category: 2011 books
Metasemantics
New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic...
Pure
Modernity, Philosophy, and the One
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One is an experimental work of philosophy in which the author aspires to think his way back to a "premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical tradition of Platonism. To this end he attempts to identify and elucidate the fundamental intellectual assumptions...
AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIME.
Historical research into the mythological and astronomical conceptions that preceded Aristotle’s philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
This study of Greek time before Aristotle’s philosophy starts with a commentary on his first text, the Protrepticus. We shall see two distinct forms of time emerge: one initiatory, circular and Platonic in inspiration, the other its diametrical opposite, advanced by Aristotle. We shall explore this...
by J.L. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Some Logical Problems Concerning Existence is not only a treatise on philosophical logic or philosophy of language but also contains explanations of concepts which are necessary for understanding other branches of philosophy, especially metaphysics or ontology. It deals with the nature of existential...
by R.D. Ingthorsson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually says—nobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the...
Explorations in Metaphysics
Being-God-Person
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
The overall spirit that permeates this volume is Clarke's firm conviction that the philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas is an inexhaustibly rich and profound resource, and his purpose is to share this conviction with contemporary philosophers. In so doing Clarke both reflects and triggers significant new directions in contemporary Thomistic thought.
by Alan McManus
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Sexual politics gets very personal as radical second wave feminists raise fears about persons with penises in female public toilets; midwives are instructed that the word ‘mother’ is discriminatory to pregnant trans men; and transactivists relate their experience of exclusion from female space...
Why Materialism Is Baloney
How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally-viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed...
by Tom Sorell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from...
by Leonard Lawlor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
“[A]n outstanding book that will serve as a fine supplement (and guide) to important primary texts in early twentieth-century continental philosophy” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).
Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy offers a lucid and engaging introduction to the major works...
Quantum Ontology
A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological...
Plotinus the Platonist
A Comparative Account of Plato and Plotinus' Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s),...
Metaphysics of Infinity
The Problem of Motion and the Infinite Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages. The reason is the paradox or contradiction associated with motion. One fundamental contradiction is the conflict between the finite body and the...
Powers and Capacities in Philosophy
The New Aristotelianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about causal powers.
The volume brings together for the first time original essays by leading philosophers working on powers in relation to metaphysics,...