Metaphysics category: 2011 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought.
Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities
Explores the historical development...
Hume Precursor of Modern Empiricism
An analysis of his opinions on Meaning, Metaphysics, Logic and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
David Hume is the most influential precursor of modern empiri cism. By modern empiricism, I intend a belief that all cognitive conflicts can be resolved, in principle, by either appeal to matters offact, via scientific procedure, or by appeal to some sets of natural or conventional standards, whether...
by Michael Dummett
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures—"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"—were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays...
Categories We Live By
The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them?...
German Political Philosophy
The Metaphysics of Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism,...
Ernest Sosa
Targeting His Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has...
All The Way To Heaven
How to Find Your Path in Life as a Soul by Understanding the Universal Laws
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
What are the Universal Laws? How can you apply them in your life? How will change benefit you? These and other questions are answered in this enthralling book. It is a book about life, its struggles, its heartaches, but mostly about the indomitable spirit that human beings possess to see the goal...
Causality and Its Application
Samkhya, Bauddha and Nyaya
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Causality and Its Application: Samkhya, Bauddha and Nyaya is not only a commentary on the views of classical Indian philosophers, but also contains explanations of concepts which are indispensable for understanding metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, among many other things. This book deals with...
by Larry Gass
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Metaphysics simplified. That's what this book is about. Instead of using terms like Absolute Unitary Being, this book has made the terminology so simple that a 5 year old could understand the concepts. All that is required is an open mind. Do you have an open mind? Then check out this simple explanation...
by Michael Quante
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism). Based on a metaphysical account of personal identity in the sense of persistence and conditions for human...
by John W. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The nature of emotion is an important question in several philosophical domains, but little attention has so far been paid to identifying the general ontological category to which emotions belong. Given that they are short-lived, are they events? Since they often have components or stages, are they...
by Elmar J. Kremer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Miller's metaphysics, including his approach to God, is broad, deep, and original, with the potential to make a fruitful contribution to contemporary philosophy. Yet it has not received the critical attention it deserves.
Miller's work deserves critical attention because of its thorough and...
Recovering Nature
Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques Maritain Center, former director of the Medieval Institute, and author of numerous works in philosophy,...