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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-21
Format(s) : PDF
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This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-10-27
Collection :
Synthese Library
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-22
Format(s) : PDF
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W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
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How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones?How can we find solace in our own death? When philosopher Joshua Glasgow's mother was diagnosed with cancer, he struggled to answer these questions for her and for himself. Though death and immortality...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-10-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-03
Format(s) : PDF
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This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-26
Format(s) : ePub
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?
This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?
This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-05-27
Format(s) : PDF
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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-05-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Metaphysics—the philosophical study of the nature of reality—is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. A concise and focused introduction to contemporary metaphysics, This is...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2020-05-07
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-05-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-04-29
Format(s) : ePub
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-04-29
Format(s) : PDF
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Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, really exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not. His discussion considers four main facets of the idea...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-04-23
Format(s) : PDF
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Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics. Many of the chapters in this volume focus...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-04-16
Format(s) : PDF
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Die «Schlusslogische Letztbegründung» sucht Antwort auf die Frage: Wie ist Philosophie als Wissenschaft möglich? Sie führt damit das Projekt einer ontologisch relevanten Logik fort, das seit der Antike im Zentrum der Geschichte des Idealismus und der...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-04-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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