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Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-24
Format(s) : ePub
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What must reality be like if the God of Abrahamic theism exists? How could the worldview of Abrahamic theism be understood if not in terms of the existence of a supremely powerful, knowledgeable, and good personal being? John Bishop and Ken Perszyk argue that it is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-16
Format(s) : PDF
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This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation--the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the same stamp as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-10
Format(s) : ePub
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What must reality be like if the God of Abrahamic theism exists? How could the worldview of Abrahamic theism be understood if not in terms of the existence of a supremely powerful, knowledgeable, and good personal being? John Bishop and Ken Perszyk argue that it is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-14
Format(s) : PDF
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Félix Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is one of the most influential and pivotal texts of modern French thought. Commissioned by the Minister of Public Instruction as one of a series of reports to record the progress of the French sciences and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-14
Format(s) : PDF
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For millennia, philosophers have debated about the existence of things - not only the existence of things like God, demons and the soul, but things like mathematical objects, qualities and attributes, or merely possible states of affairs and people. Ontology is the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-07
Format(s) : PDF
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Félix Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is one of the most influential and pivotal texts of modern French thought. Commissioned by the Minister of Public Instruction as one of a series of reports to record the progress of the French sciences and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-01
Format(s) : ePub
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For millennia, philosophers have debated about the existence of things - not only the existence of things like God, demons and the soul, but things like mathematical objects, qualities and attributes, or merely possible states of affairs and people. Ontology is the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-24
Format(s) : ePub
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J.S. Mill famously equated physical things with "permanent possibilities of sensation." This view, known as phenomenalism, holds that a rock is a tendency for experiences to occur as they do when people perceive a rock, and similarly for all other physical things. In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-10
Format(s) : PDF
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J.S. Mill famously equated physical things with "permanent possibilities of sensation." This view, known as phenomenalism, holds that a rock is a tendency for experiences to occur as they do when people perceive a rock, and similarly for all other physical things. In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-10
Format(s) : ePub
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This is a reading of Gilles Deleuze’s masterpiece Logic of Sense. It provides a thorough and systematic reading of Deleuze’s book by focusing on the aspects that are neglected in the existing literature. Specifically, the claim that Deleuze’s Logic of Sense provides a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-10-20
Format(s) : ePub
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In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson awakens global...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation.This idea serves as a premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral facts, for the inexistence of mathematical facts, for the existence of a god, for the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-07-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Roman U. Sexl schreibt in seinem Artikel „Der unerschöpfliche Albert Einstein“, dass „gerade rund um die Ursprünge der speziellen Relativitätstheorie einige wesentliche wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Fragen“ noch offen stehen und betont: „Eine der interessantesten Fragen...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2022-07-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Putting Properties First considers the metaphysics of natural science. It develops and defends a contemporary metaphysical theory of natural modality called 'Modal Platonism', which puts properties first in the metaphysical hierarchy. According to this theory, natural...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : ePub
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David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : PDF
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David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : ePub
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Putting Properties First considers the metaphysics of natural science. It develops and defends a contemporary metaphysical theory of natural modality called 'Modal Platonism', which puts properties first in the metaphysical hierarchy. According to this theory, natural...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : PDF
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