Metaphysics

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...

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...

Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.In this collection of essays, Franklin I. Gamwell offers a defense of transcendental metaphysics, especially in its...

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438479279Author Chung-ying ChengFormat HardbackPage Count 548Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

A vigorous and wide-ranging defense of Hartshorne's "neoclassical metaphysics" of creative freedom.Charles Hartshorne, one of the premier metaphysicians of the twentieth century, surmised that Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom made his...

Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead's and Aurobindo's views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the...

The series provides a forum for innovative, high-quality work in all fields of analytical philosophy. The volumes in this series are published in either English or German.Book InformationISBN 9783110325133Author Sofia MiguensFormat HardbackPage Count...

Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology. It deals with such questions as: How do we know that something is really possible? Is the possible only the actual? Is the actual only the...

Central to Elements is an assay of the attributional union properties and relations have with their subjects, a topic historically left metaphorical. The work critiques eight Aristotelian assumptions concerning attribute dependence and 'inherence', per...

What are the basic building blocks of the world? This book presents a naturalistic theory saying that the universe and everything in it can be reduced to three fundamental entities: a field, a set of values that can be actualized at different places in...

Although the importance of Francisco Suarez has been, for some time already, generally recognized even outside the circles of historians of scholasticism, the wider context of his thought - i.e., the rich and diverse Renaissance and Baroque scholasticism...

There is an assumption that reality has the structure of a simple stack of facts, and that a total view of the facts is either a view from somewhere special--a standpoint from which things are viewed as they truly are--or a view from nowhere. This book...

Over the past decade there has been renewed interest in the thought of the Christian existentialist Gabriel Marcel. An English translation of his autobiographical final work Awakenings as well as a collection of his essays on music have recently been...

The Maimonides Review is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417030834Author Robert LanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Editorial SirioPublisher Editorial SirioWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667820590Author Pierce Alexander LilholtFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 680g

This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination-the very centerpiece of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991010936Author Barbara Lee WithFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Mad Island Communications LLCPublisher Mad Island Communications LLCWeight(grams)...

This collection of fourteen interpretative essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) focuses specifically on Berkeley's theory of the nature and variety of existing things. The collection is notable for containing the first four winners of...

In this challenging study in metaphilosophy, Douglas Browning makes a case for viewing ontology as a legitimate and viable philosophical pursuit. Beginning with a sustained analysis of the process of attempting to construct a system that is true of the...

This volume is a sound translation of the Fons vitae of Solomon ibn Gabirol (born 1021/1022), who was the first Jewish philosopher in Spain. In the Fons vitae, Gabirol argues that there is a sensible and an intelligible world; that everything in the...

Hegel's philosophy is often presented as a reconciliation between thought and the world, and thus logic and metaphysics. But what is the basis of this reconciliation? In this book, Clark Wolf argues that the key to Hegel's transformation of philosophy...

Heidegger criticized Plato, alleging that all metaphysics is Platonism and that metaphysics is a misunderstanding and falsification of the question of Being. Is it possible to defend Platonism against this Heideggerian accusation? Three thinkers among...

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In the last few decades, analytical philosophers have rediscovered an interest in the subject of metaphysics. Surveying the contributions made by these philosophers, Method in Metaphysics initiates a critical dialogue between analytical metaphysics and...

In this study John W. Elrod demonstrates that Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings have an ontological foundation that unites the disparate elements of these books. The descriptions of the different stages of human development are not fully...

Whitehead's Philosophical Development: A Critical History of the Background of Process and Reality by Nathaniel Lawrence offers the first systematic map of Alfred North Whitehead's intellectual trajectory, culminating in his famously difficult Gifford...

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Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons are material objects but not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and defends a unique collection of positions on parthood,...

The most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and that he is indeed a "utilitarian." They mark him off as...

A collection of important essays by a pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology“Brilliant.”—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand FacesAnanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947) was a pioneer in the study of Indian art,...