Search results for “[subject: metaphysics]”

• Author(s): David H. Gordon • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsIt is a central claim of the New Atheists that evolutionary theory disproves theism and demonstrates the truth of metaphysical natu...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAs a study in the methodology of metaphysics, the book seeks to show that ultimately Reality's inherent impetus to lawful order se...

• Author(s): Alain Beaulieu | Edward Kazarian | Julia Sushytska • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis collection examines an aspect of Gilles Deleuze's thought that has largely been neglected; ...

• Author(s): Paul Studtmann • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: LogicEmpiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics develops and defends an empiricist solution to the problem of metaphysics, then examines the imp...

• Author(s): Brook M. Blair • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EpistemologyBased upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche's writings and his reception among post-Nietzschean thinkers, this book argues that Ni...

• Author(s): Victorino Tejera | Atila Bayat • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsVictorino Tejeracombines an American naturalist approach to Aristotle's modes of knowing with new applications of Ju...

• Author(s): Joseph Urbas • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis book gives the first complete account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its position in his philosophy as a whole....

• Author(s): Derong Chen • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EasternThis book proposes three new metaphysical categories: Meta-One (元一), Multi-One (殊一), and Utter-One (全一). The author argues that this new sy...

• Author(s): Derong Chen • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EasternIn Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy ...

• Author(s): George Allan • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis book argues that Whitehead's introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders it incoherent. Replacing roles assigned to ...

• Author(s): Liran Shia Gordon • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThrough an analysis of the role of the will as the supreme principle of Scotus's thought, ultimately manifested in the idea of cr...

• Author(s): John Owens • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis book examines Richard Rorty's position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and proposes that his po...

• Author(s): Jeremy Kirby • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debat...

• Author(s): Brianne Donaldson • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis book asserts that metaphysics is a fundamental factor in systemic brutality toward animals, plants, and marginalized populat...

• Author(s): Mingjun Lu • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis book is a comparative study of the fundamental metaphysical assumptions and their epistemological implications in Chinese and Weste...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsNicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that the historical perspective and forward-thinking normative, or sy...

• Author(s): Kenneth Lafave • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyThis book provides a unique approach to some of philosophy's fundamental issues. It points to music as a model for exp...

• Author(s): Wm Andrew Schwartz • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis book offers a new paradigm for religious pluralism by exploring Indic insights of Jainism and the nature of paradox.

• Author(s): Olav Bryant Smith • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EpistemologyMyths of the Self is a departure from the standard fare of postmodern thought. In a unique and brilliant turn, Smith argues that...

• Author(s): Rosa Maria Perez-Teran Mayorga • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsFrom Realism to 'Realicism' is a unique critical study of Peirce's metaphysics, and his repeated insistence on the r...

• Author(s): Asher Walden • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis book explores the problem of moral metaphysics through investigations of four pivotal philosophers. It uses the...

• Author(s): Rosa Maria Perez-Teran Mayorga • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsCharles Sanders Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism, was convinced that metaphysics is not just of primary importance ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalAxiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultim...

• Author(s): Matthew S. Lopresti • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsUltimate reality is often characterized in terms of a variety of what are thought to be incompatible concepts, like God, Dao, B...

• Author(s): Byron Ashley Clugston • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn demonstrating how much Kant's metaphysics of judgment relies on symbolism, this book clarifies Kant's relationship to Roma...

• Author(s): Leon Niemoczynski • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this enlightening and original study on the cultivation of a religious understanding of nature, Leon Niemoc...

• Author(s): Andrea Micocci • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Free Enterprise & CapitalismThe objective of this book is to construct an individually emancipatory economic and political philosophy. This...

• Author(s): S. R. Charles • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe Emergent Metaphysics in Plato's Theory of Disorder presents for the first time Plato's theory...

• Author(s): David N. Stamos • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsStamos squarely confronts the problem of determining what a biological species is, whether species are real, and the nature of thei...

• Author(s): Craig Dilworth • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophySimplicity provides a new logic with which to approach intellectual situations. Using the simplicity way of thinki...

• Author(s): Jeremy Pierce • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Movements - RealismThis book defends a non-pragmatist social kind view of race, approaching the issue from the perspective of analytic philosoph...

• Author(s): Robert J. Roecklein • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EpistemologyThis book is a careful study of both Immanuel Kant's work and the context of that work in Early Modern Philosophy. Roecklein's...

• Author(s): Asaf Z. Sokolowski • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn defiance of the predominant pattern of reading liberal political thought in isolation from the metaphysica...

• Author(s): Aaron Brice Cummings • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: European - FrenchBaudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical tr...

• Author(s): Sean H. McDowell • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshMetaphysical Shadows examines how the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still speaks to working p...

• Author(s): Sean H. McDowell • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshMetaphysical Shadows examines how the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still speaks to working p...