Search results for “[Subject: metaphysics]”

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenom...

• Author(s): D. H. Mellor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EpistemologyEverything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell u...

• Author(s): Benedict De Spinoza • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: MetaphysicsA profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is ...

• Author(s): Theodore Scaltsas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philoso...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Signet Classics • Publisher Imprint: Signet Classics • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry, obse...

• Author(s): Theodore Scaltsas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philoso...

• Author(s): Morris Berman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful chal...

• Author(s): Charlotte Witt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsSubstance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound--and perplexing--treatise: Books ...

• Author(s): Peter Ludlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAccording to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can g...

• Author(s): Joseph Keim Campbell | Michael O'Rourke | Harry S. Silverstein • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: MetaphysicsOriginal essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self, written by distingui...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-st...

• Author(s): Joseph Keim Campbell • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsReflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.Contemporary discuss...

• Author(s): Scott MacDonald • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Good & EvilThe intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical trad...

• Author(s): Michael Loux • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsMichael J. Loux here presents a fresh reading of two of the most important books of the Metaphysics, Books Z and H, ...

• Author(s): Robert Wisnovsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 103...

• Author(s): Charlotte Witt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalCharlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle's metaph...

• Author(s): Kevin Corcoran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyHow are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms...

• Author(s): Edward Zalta • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn this book, Edward N. Zalta tackles the issues that arise in connection with intensional logic and intentional states.In this book, Edward N. Za...

• Author(s): Rene Descartes • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsFrom the Back CoverTRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DESMOND M. CLARKEOf all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of mode...

• Author(s): M. Chirimuuta • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or ...

• Author(s): Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: MetaphysicsA metaphysical investigation of money and monetary value, exploring money as a socia...

• Author(s): Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: MetaphysicsA metaphysical investigation of money and monetary value, exploring money as a socia...

• Author(s): David S. Rutledge • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This critical text examines the ways in which Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's great writers, struct...

• Author(s): Frederick M. Dolan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralAllegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be...

• Author(s): Peter Van Inwagen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this c...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)A key anthology for students of English literature, featuring some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse Spanni...

• Author(s): Nick Zangwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsIn chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Ni...

• Author(s): Peter Van Inwagen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this c...

• Author(s): Robert Stern • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern ...

• Author(s): Charles R. Bambach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe collapse of historicism was not merely the demise of an academic tradition but signifie...

• Author(s): James Beilby • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsAlmost a decade ago, Alvin Plantinga articulated his bold and controversial evolutionary argument against naturalism...

• Author(s): Paul Humphreys • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsInterest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the con...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Robert Stern • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us a...

• Author(s): Joseph Keim Campbell | Michael O'Rourke | Harry S. Silverstein • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyLeading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspect...