Metaphysics

For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the College de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived...

In 1987, medical transcriptionist Patricia Pereira suddenly started receiving telepathic communications from the star Arcturus and was requested to begin a series of galactically inspired manuscripts. The mission of this series of books is to awaken...

Moral and social philosophers often assume that humans beings are and ought to be autonomous. This tradition of individualism, or atomism, underlies many of our assumptions about ethics and law; it provides a legitimating framework for liberal democracy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975908006Author Eric PepinFormat PaperbackImprint Higher Balance Pub.Publisher Higher Balance Pub.

If the sentence 'my cat is on the mat' is true how does it get to be true? Sentences are made true by what exists. But what about claims such as 'There were dinosaurs?' and '2+2=4'. How do they get to be true? Metaphysics: An Introduction uses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804515Author Roger LipseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The central theme of this work is Jung's concept of synchronicity. This exploration of the scientific basis for meaningful coincidence interweaves the author's interpretation of synchronicity with key concepts in quantum physics and the basic tenets of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387787Author Michael MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adornoa s lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adornoa s own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198624243Author Carl AbrahamssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Trapart BooksPublisher Trapart BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causation have been applied, fruitfully, across the sciences, law, medicine, and in everyday life,...

In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless proliferation of positions and lack of any clear idea of how to resolve debates...

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...

Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384076Author Jean BorellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative...

New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in an affordable edition suitable for use in courses in mediaeval philosophy, history of mediaeval philosophy, and universals. Includes a concise...

Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873731Author Martin HagglundFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

How do things persist? Are material objects spread out through time just as they are spread out through space? Or is temporal persistence quite different from spatial extension? This key question lies at the heart of any metaphysical exploration of the...

When a doctor tells you there s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make...

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.About the AuthorAlfred North Whitehead (February 1861 - 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.Book InformationISBN...

Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other...

This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation...

Aristotle MetaphysicaBook InformationISBN 9780198145134Author Werner JaegerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 129mm * 22mm

"The Analytic Thomist," Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly lays out his position: without Aristotelian...

This collection of 13 new essays shows what Baruch Spinoza can add to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. By offering a relational understanding of the nature of individuals centred on the role played by emotions, Spinoza offers not...

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds. One of the...

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. ...

Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be...

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking...

Godsends is William Desmond's newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648499626Author Daniel BrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

A bold, systematic account of the role of repetition in shaping modern subjectivity for Kierkegaard, Freud, and Lacan.Repetition and Subjectivity offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Kierkegaard's concept of repetition and the...

There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that...

In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783465043454Author Alexandra ZinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Verlag Vittorio KlostermannPublisher Verlag Vittorio KlostermannWeight(grams) 336g

This book challenges the widely accepted philosophical principle of parsimony, which holds that theories lacking simplicity are inherently doubtful. It critically examines this principle in its unqualified form and explores various ways to present it in...

Contemporary metaphysics is most commonly approached in a piecemeal fashion, not systematically. Even those philosophers who end up with a metaphysical system tend to tackle issues one at a time, and do not presume that doing metaphysics systematically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554817153Author Stephen A. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm)...