Metaphysics category: 2011 books
Many Worlds?
Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, and...
The Consciousness of the Atom
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states...
Quantum Reprogramming
Ensembles and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering dichotomy of purpose for a major physical...
Freedom and the Self
Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor...
by James Mannion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
At last, you can grasp the most difficult concepts of thought!
If you’ve always wanted to learn about philosophy but were too intimidated to get past the first word ending in “ism,” The Everything Philosophy Book provides simple explanations guaranteed to make philosophic ideas and concepts...
by Lawrence LeShan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Making use of an ethical system based on psychological need, rather than on metaphysical or theological grounds, LeShan shows how an evolved ethical system can keep pace with science and technology, and displace the damage being done to the planet and our own survival.
by William LePar
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
The sole purpose of all of us here on earth is spiritual growth. Yet, in this world given over to materialism and evil, spirituality has been lost. To grow spiritually, one must take the small steps that eventually lead to the greater reward. That is the theme in this latest book by William LePar,...
Dreamed Up Reality
Diving into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
A strong and growing intuition in society today is the idea that our thoughts create our own reality. Yet it seems obvious that, try as we might, our lives are not quite what we fantasize. Is the intuition thus wrong? Through a rational, methodic interpretation of meditative insights, the validity...
Meaning in Absurdity: What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality
What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its path one finds UFOs and fairies, quantum mechanics, analytic philosophy, history, mathematics,...
Stoic Six Pack 3
The Epicureans
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
-Epicurus
Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to its popular rival Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the...
Sacred Magic - The Keys to Higher Space
The Emerging 4D Paradigm According to Ariel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
From the Book, Sacred Magic: "Time is coming to an end. It is rapidly funneling into the eternal ‘NOW.’ For a little over two thousand years human awareness has doubled exponentially, spinning faster and faster approaching the center of an ever tightening vortex. The exact mathematical center of...
by Bruce Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems...
by J.R. Mendola
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role in rooting the contents of thoughts, but deploys an expanded conception of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative...