Metaphysics category: 2011 books

Cover of Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger
by Wesley Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015

Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono.
Cover of Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology
by G. W. Leibniz, Albert R. Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

One of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous influence on the philosophy of Herder, Feuerbach, and Hegel as well as on the writings of Schiller and Goethe. Two of Leibniz's most studied and often quoted works appear in this volume: Discourse on...
Cover of An Essay on Metaphysics
by R. G. Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

This early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in 1940 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'An Essay on Metaphysics' is an academic inquiry in the field of philosophy. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England....
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Meta-metaphysics

On Metaphysical Equivalence, Primitiveness, and Theory Choice

by Jiri Benovsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice. Before we get there, the philosophical path the author...
Cover of Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

In 1781, Immanuel Kant published his first and most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason." To the German philosopher's dismay, the work was at first poorly received and largely misunderstood by his readers. As a result, two years later Kant produced his "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics that...
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Aesthetics After Metaphysics

From Mimesis to Metaphor

by Miguel Beistegui
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds...
Cover of Modal Logic as Metaphysics
by Timothy Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal...
Cover of Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics
by Earl Conee, Theodore Sider
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005

The questions of metaphysics are the deepest and most puzzling questions there are. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a child? What is it for one thing to cause another? Riddles of Existence is the first book ever to make metaphysics genuinely accessible and...
Cover of Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.
Cover of Metaphysics Secrets for Health and Success in Life
by Raymond T. Kranyak Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009

Metaphysics for Health and Success in Life is a handbook of Metaphysical techniques to improve the quality of your life. The historic psychic knowledge is updated into simple easy to understand terms. Also included are background scientific theories showing how mystical methods are based in science....
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The Metaphysics of Night

Recovering Soul, Renewing Humanism

by Matthew Del Nevo
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

The Metaphysics of Night acknowledges a post-secular philosophy, one that puts philosophy into serious dialogue with religion, rather than considering religion a thing of the past. Matthew Del Nevo deals with the cultural unconscious, inseparable from religious consciousness, and draws on psychoanalysis...
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by Heather Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.
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Metaphysics

The Fundamentals

by Robert C. Koons, Timothy Pickavance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics. Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy Introduces readers...
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Emerson's Metaphysics

A Song of Laws and Causes

by Joseph Urbas
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

This book gives the first complete, fully historicized account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its foundational position in his philosophy as a whole. Urbas tells the story of the making of a metaphysician and in so doing breaks with the postmodern, anti-metaphysical readings that...
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