Aristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the t
With ontology motivated largely by causal considerations, this lucid and provocative work focuses on the idea that physical objects are causally non-redundant. Merricks "eliminates" inanimate composit
Nine essays attribute the snuffing out of metaphysics as a philosophical problem to political revolution in France, industrial revolution in England, and intellectual revolution in Germany. Philosophe
This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which
Links ethical and social questions to build a new approach to metaphysics and epistemologyFundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know? Minds, bodies; free will; evil; meaningful live
Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at t
Gnosis, in the hands of Roberts Avens, is a perennial philosophy of the heart. He provides a readable, uncomplicated, and reliable introduction to the Gnosis going on today in the poetical thought of
Identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are vital concepts at the center of philosophy. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Ph
Exploring the central ideas of traditional metaphysics--such as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity--this book analyzes looking at such notions from a scientif
Occasions of Identity is an exploration of timeless philosophical issues about persistence, change, time, and sameness. Andri?? Gallois offers a critical survey of various rival views about the nature
Is the world of appearances the real world?Are there facts that exist independently of our minds?Are there vague objects?Russell on Metaphysics brings together for the first time a comprehensive selec
Joan Stambaugh's translations of the works of Heidegger, accomplished with his guidance, have made key aspects of his thought and philosophy accessible to readers of English for many years. This colle
This pithy volume delves into the distinction between potentiality and actuality in book ix of Aristotle's Metaphysics . Questioning the dismissal of this book as a supplement to book vii and views t
Mumford puts forward a new theory of dispositions, showing how central their role in metaphysics and philosophy of science is. Much of our understanding of the physical and psychological world is expr
Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential
In the section on laws of nature, Psillos considers both the regularity view of laws and laws as relations among universals as well as alternative approaches to laws. In the final section on explanati
In the first part of the book, Dale Jacquette explores questions of pure philosophical ontology: what is meant by the concept of being, why does something exist rather than nothing, and why there is o
In a world racked by violence and conflict, James Redfield and Michael Murphy-leading cocreators of today's spiritual boom-present a message of hope and a vision for the future. It is no accident, t
