Metaphysics

Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942497547Author Michael J.RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Six Degrees Publishing Group, IncPublisher Six Degrees Publishing Group, Inc

"Might this be a dream?" In this book, distinguished philosopher J. J. Valberg approaches the familiar question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a...

"Our" world is vegetal. None of it would have been in existence were it not for the life activity of plants. Time, discernible in the rhythms, intervals, logics, articulations, and disarticulations of the world, is the time of plants. Starting from...

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935785323Author Florence Scovel ShinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill...

What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is composed, and as real as the Pizza Hut corporation with its headquarters in...

The doctrine of the incarnation - that God became human in Christ - is one of the most astonishing propositions ever advanced, and it is at the heart of the Christian faith. It is also a paradoxical one, in that it immediately faces the objection that,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954596153Author Ryuu ShinoharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Omen PublishingPublisher Omen PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941489444Author Jeshua Ben JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Audio Enlightenment PressPublisher Audio Enlightenment PressWeight(grams)...

This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate...

The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 yearsThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive...

The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date. Employing a novel philosophical method, it addresses central questions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585427239Author Sandra MaitriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This book is intended for professional philosophers as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate students (courses in epistemology).Reviews'Alvin Plantinga makes important contributions to a tradition of discussion which has dominated recent...

The imposing scope and penetrating insights of German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann's work have received renewed interest in recent years. The Neo-Kantian turned ontological realist established a philosophical approach unique among his peers, and it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646973357Author Brendan D MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Global Freedom Movement PressPublisher Global Freedom Movement PressWeight(grams)...

The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be...

"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835609111Author Serge Kahili KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385192484Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564246Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868596Author Erich PrzywaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Adorno's lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960-61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger's philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin - 'to demolish Heidegger'...

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of...

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular Aristotle's logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations translated into Arabic via Syriac and possibly Persian. For...

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness...

In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive understanding of its meaning and in which there is a...

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway's most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942497394Author Michael J RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Six Degrees Publishing Group, IncPublisher Six Degrees Publishing Group,...

What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and...

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the cole Normale Sup rieure,...

There are a bewildering variety of ways the terms "realism" and "anti-realism" have been used in philosophy and furthermore the different uses of these terms are only loosely connected with one another. Rather than give a piecemeal map of this very...

When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in...

The doctrine of the Trinity, proclaimed by Christians through the Nicene-Constantinople creed, is foundational to traditional Christian belief and worship of God. But is this doctrine logically coherent? How can there be three divine persons (Father,...

Propositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions. The second is to defend an account of their nature. While pursuing these goals, Trenton Merricks draws a variety of controversial conclusions about related issues,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515435112Author Bertrand RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735967783Author Wolfgang SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Philos-Sophia Initiative FoundationPublisher Philos-Sophia Initiative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578649245Author Bentinho MassaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Bentinho MassaroPublisher Bentinho MassaroWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...