Metaphysics category: 2011 books
The Thüringia Codex
The Sacred Science of the Leopard Oracle Priest King of Het-Ka-Ptah
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Thringia Codex is a book based on ancient Egyptian philosophy, theology, psychology, and metaphysics, and it deals with the branches of philosophical thought, analysis, and speculation of esthetics, ethics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics through the Memphis Theological System, by which heaven...
Being and Knowing
Reflections of a Thomist
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence (the act by which all things manifest themselves); second, that existence is known not through...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in philosophy, including but not limited to: emergence, mental causation, the nature of causation, the nature of causal powers and dispositions, laws of nature,...
Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment
Islamic Metaphysics Revived and Recent Phenomenology of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us...
Being, Freedom, and Method
Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
John Keller presents a set of new essays on ontology, time, freedom, God, and philosophical method. Our understanding of these subjects has been greatly advanced, since the 1970s, by the work of Peter van Inwagen. The contributions, from some of the most prominent living philosophers, engage with...
Hegel Reconsidered
Beyond Metaphysics and the Authoritarian State
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. He has been described both as a metaphysician and characterized as an ironic...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
What makes up reality, and how? What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? These questions are central to contemporary metaphysics. The papers in this collection, written by a new...
Nonexistent Objects
Meinong and Contemporary Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Featuring chapters on the latest developments in fifteen core subjects in analytic philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy is an essential guide for all those working in the field today.Introducing its history and looking ahead to new research directions, this companion brings...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Is sex metaphysical? This is to say, does it have a purpose and a nature that is encoded in the very construct of the universe? These are the questions the author takes up in this day and age where most everything is up for grabs. This writing is not without an examination of sensitive issues and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy contests the view that metaphysics is something to be overcome. By focusing on process and object oriented ontology (OOO) and rejecting the privileging of human existence over the existence of non-human objects, this collection explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
We find “vertical” relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies. This book is the first to bring together, and comparatively assess, the exciting array of philosophical approaches to vertical relations...
The Philosophy of John Dewey
A Critical Exposition of His Method, Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
John Dewey ranks as the most influential of America's philosophers. That in fluence stems, in part, from the originality of his mind, the breadth of his in terests, and his capacity to synthesize materials from diverse sources. In addi tion, Dewey was blessed with a long life and the extraordinary...