Search results for “[Subject: metaphysics]”

• Author(s): Andrew B. Schoedinger • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAre the characteristics and relationships among spatio-temporal entities "real" or are they simply conventional terms that ...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: EpistemologyMetaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua...

• Author(s): Timothy Taubes • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: AestheticsThe author offers a look at the history, ethics, and aesthetics of art from the perspective of the specific philosophical concepts ...

• Author(s): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernLeibniz (1646 - 1716) was a true polymath and has been called the most comprehensive thinker since A...

• Author(s): Fraser Cowley • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: EpistemologyIf you have become as discouraged as I have in the past in the struggle to decipher what philosophers are really up to, then this ...

• Author(s): Paul Kurtz • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo dominant schools have emerged in twentieth-century American philosophy: scientific naturalism and pragmatism. ...

• Author(s): Immanual Kant • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThe nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits...

• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsOne of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an intr...

• Author(s): Martin Mahner • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe prolific and indefatigable Mario Bunge has been writing books and articles on almost every facet of philosop...

• Author(s): Benedictus De Spinoza • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn the genre of Christian philosophers, Spinoza presents a geometric argument for the necessary existence...

• Author(s): Victor J. Stenger • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyIn this fascinating and accessible book, physicist Victor J. Stenger guides the lay reader through the key develo...