Metaphysics

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for...

Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a...

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In...

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre-and why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know...

Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not...

The Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive read in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603862363Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, which set the extracts in context and guide the reader through them. The book is...

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and...

In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980544015Author G. W. F. HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint re.pressPublisher re.pressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290506Author Mark SideritsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view, when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to occur, a certain kind of event would occur. Since it is very...

Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to consider the significance of extraordinary experiences for our understanding of reality. Currently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061632655Author Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954596078Author Ryuu ShinoharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Omen PublishingPublisher Omen PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its path one finds UFOs and fairies, quantum mechanics,...

A reconfiguration of the reception of Deleuze and Lacan in contemporary Continental philosophyIt is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great...

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573247108Author M. J. RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 0g

Metaphysics: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the philosophical study of some of the most important and foundational aspects of the world in which we live. Concerned with questions about existence, time, identity, change, and other...

-- What is consciousness like?-- How can consciousness be achieved?Gary Lachman argues that consciousness is not a result of neurons and molecules, but is actually responsible for them. Meaning, he proposes, is not imported from the outer world, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948166559Author Hasan SpikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Tabah ResearchPublisher Tabah ResearchWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Can we see the future in our dreams?Does time flow in one direction?What is a 'meaningful coincidence'?Renowned esoteric writer Gary Lachman has been recording his own precognitive dreams for forty years. In this unique and intriguing book, Lachman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941489499Author Jeshua Ben JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Audio Enlightenment PressPublisher Audio Enlightenment PressWeight(grams)...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very...

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Organizations do moral wrong. States pursue unjust wars, businesses avoid tax, charities misdirect funds. Our social, political, and legal responses require guidance. We need to know what we're responding to and how we should respond to it. We need a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156519922Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 521Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953450067Author Swami Sri YukteswarFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant...

Through the concept of "social choreography" Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history...

Examining the flaws of mainstream society, this collection of conspiracy theory, esoteric knowledge, and fringe subjects seeks to present solutions to current social, economic, and environmental world issues. This book encourages the exploration and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932073737Author Dan MillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint H J KramerPublisher H J Kramer

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel. This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity...

Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal works. First published in 1969, shortly after Difference and Repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style and methods he would use in his later writing with Felix Guattari. In an early review Michel Foucault wrote...

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Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941489185Author Neville GoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Audio Enlightenment PressPublisher Audio Enlightenment PressWeight(grams)...

This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.About the AuthorImmanuel...