Metaphysics category: 2011 books
The Species Problem
Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this...
The Handbook of Life
And Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Have you felt that there is a lot going on that doesn’t make much sense anymore? Our government seems dysfunctional at best, and working against the good of the people and the country at worst. We don’t know who is telling the truth. Many are finding that our religious institutions are not able to...
by Marius Johan Geertsema
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This book investigates the relationship between poetry and ontology in the works of Martin Heidegger. It explains the way in which Heidegger’s dialogue with poetry forms an essential step on the path of overcoming metaphysics and thinking the openness of presence. Heidegger’s engagement with poetry...
Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls “Romantic organology.” Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs—a metaphysics meant to theorize,...
Classical Indian Philosophy
An Introductory Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000
In this comprehensive textbook, renowned philosopher J. N. Mohanty examines the range of Indian philosophy from the Sutra period through the 17th century Navya Nyaya. Classical Indian Philosophy is divided into three parts that cover epistemology, metaphysics, and the attempt to transcend the distinction...
by Dale Jacquette
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his discovery of assumptions as...
The Remains of Being
Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann,...
by Max Kistler
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation*.* Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level...
Inquiry, Forms, and Substances
A Study in Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
i. Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that the Forms are substances. Whether the Forms are substances is not an issue that Socrates had in mind. He did not deny it, but neither did he affirm it. If Socrates were asked a series of questions designed to determine whether he believed...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study. Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately related to counterfactual conditionals and other modal...
The Philosophy Of Right And Left
Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Immanuel Kant was the first great thinker to point out the philosophical significance of such objects. He called them "counter parts" because they are similar...
The Tenseless Theory of Time
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time," namely, "whether a static or a dynamic conception ofthe world is...
Thomas Aquinas
Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure. Today, Aquinas's work is recognized as a cornerstone of the western philosophical tradition. This book offers a full-scale...
God and Meaning
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest among analytic philosophers in the topic of life's meaning. What is striking about this surge of work is that nearly all of it is by naturalists theorizing from non-theistic starting points.
This book answers the need for a theistic philosophical...