Metaphysics category: 2011 books
The Philosophy of Edith Stein
From Phenomenology to Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something might be and give a key to...
by Richard Schain
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Radical Metaphysics is a project of existential thought aiming to establish the reality of the metaphysical dimension of the mind. The author opposes the prevailing materialist monism of current times with an appeal to the intuition of a metaphysical self - historically called the soul. This book...
Ontology Revisited
Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of things...
by P.F. Strawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic...
by Henry E. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Henry E. Allison presents a comprehensive commentary on Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). It differs from most recent commentaries in paying special attention to the structure of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and the views to which Kant was responding....
The Metaphysics of Perception
Wilfrid Sellars, Perceptual Consciousness and Critical Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics.
Individuals, Essence and Identity
Themes of Analytic Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta physics we engage in a linguistic...
by Dr Sophie Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, exploring how their formulation...
Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics
Modulation of Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna. In this exploration of his philosophy, Sajjad H. Rizvi examines the central doctrine of the modulation of being, and contextualises his work within the intellectual history of philosophical traditions in the Islamic East.
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Peirce's Empiricism
Its Roots and Its Originality
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally...
by S. Boulter
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an account of how we should conduct our business qua metaphysicians.
Scientific Ontology
Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something...
Rethinking Faith
Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous...
by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Matthew H. Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.