Metaphysics

An impressive synthesis of semiotics and anthropology which puts human experience in a new light. Deely gives us the foundation for a new paradigm for anthropology. -Nathan Houser, Peirce Edition ProjectAbout the AuthorJohn Deely, professor of philosophy...

This book celebrates the research career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting sixteen new and critical essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends. Baker was a trenchant critic of physicalist conceptions of the universe. She was...

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative. The main project of The Subject's Point of View is to argue that discarding certain elements of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584209447Author Massimo ScaligeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Lindisfarne BooksPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions...

This classic work by the author of The Light (La Luce) teaches how to enter, and to understand, the spiritual reality behind space and time.Scaligero argues that space and time are immeasurable. To penetrate space and time, we must meditate on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792633781Author John GranroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Eyecorner PressPublisher Eyecorner PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

"A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro's Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene." (Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life) ...

The Algorithm of Creation is the last of Nicholas Hagger’s quartet on the unity of the universe and humankind, and follows The Universe and the Light (1993), The One and the Many (1999) and The New Philosophy of Universalism (2009). It offers an...

This volume contains eleven articles and book chapters written by John Wippel since the publication of his Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas in 1984. Many of them have also been published since the completion of his The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas...

Does the human being really have a soul? Is the idea of 'soul' a matter of religious faith? If science cannot detect the soul, how can reasonable people speak of it?The Soul of the Person is a contemporary account of the metaphysical basis for the...

Though John Locke set out to write a book that would resolve questions about the origin and scope of human knowledge, his Essay Concerning Human Understanding is also a profound contribution to metaphysics, full of arguments about the fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527240599Author Rajesh ParmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint KdpPublisher KdpWeight(grams) 140g

This book offers a rich introduction to Heidegger that reveals Poggeler's sound scholarship and philosophical criticism.Book InformationISBN 9781573923446Author Otto PoggelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Humanity BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another...

The description for this book, Cosmic Understanding: Philosophy and Science of the Universe, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorMilton K. Munitz is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the City University of New York. Among his numerous...

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author's original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexamination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813911748Author Jaroslav PelikanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. His scholarly work in the history of modern philosophy focused on Baruch Spinoza, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F. H. Bradley, Arthur...

Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How do these fields interact with one another? How should they? Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science investigates an approach to these questions called methodological...

The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. It sets What is Philosophy? in...

Holistic Explanation Action, Space, InterpretationBook InformationISBN 9780198246053Author Christopher PeacockeFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 393gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381785Author E A BurttFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 585g

This collection of Marcus's non-technical essays includes her ground-breaking axiomatizations of quantified modal logic.Book InformationISBN 9780195096576Author Ruth Barcan MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher...

Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the...

This is a study of events and their place in our language and thought. The author discusses what kind of item an event is, how the language of events works and how these two themes are interrelated. He argues that most of the supposedly metaphysical...

A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be something whose existence is both logically independent of...

Can philosophy offer reasonable grounds for the existence of a God as the centre of actual faith, rather than just a theoretical Absolute? Many contemporary thinkers have concluded that no genuine religion could be based upon metaphysics. In this book,...

Being and God argues that defensible philosophical theorization concerning the topic "God" is both possible and necessary within the framework of an adequate systematic philosophy-which must include a theory of Being-but is not possible in the absence of...

The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke (1715-16) was probably the most famous and influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century. It focused on the clash between the Newtonian and Leibnizian world systems, involving disputes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615964911Author Jeff CarreiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Emergence EducationPublisher Emergence EducationWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648820321Author K P WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Karen Mc Dermott PublishingPublisher Karen Mc Dermott Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503609911Author Nikolaos LoudovikosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 517g

Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.Horizons of Difference offers twelve original essays inspired by Luce Irigaray's complex, nuanced critique of Western philosophy, culture, and metaphysics, and her...

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.Finalist for the 2022 PROSE...

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.Schelling and Spinoza reconstructs Schelling's reading of Spinoza's metaphysics to better understand the roles realism and idealism play in...

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.Schelling and Spinoza reconstructs Schelling's reading of Spinoza's metaphysics to better understand the roles realism and idealism play in...

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary...