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Author: John Hawthorne Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN: 019153756X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 312
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John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.
Author: John Hawthorne Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN: 019153756X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.
Author: John P. Hawthorne Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199291236 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 299
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"This book contains a selection of John Hawthorne's recent essays in metaphysics, including six previously unpublished papers. In these essays, he investigates some of the most fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, persistence, vagueness and causation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Tyron Goldschmidt Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198746970 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 314
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Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are Berkeleyan idealism, which gives ontological priority to the mental (minds and ideas) over the physical (bodies), and Kantian idealism, which gives a kind of explanatory priority to the mental (the structure of the understanding) over the physical (the structure of the empirical world). Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. This book rectifies this situation by bringing together seventeen essays by leading philosophers on the topic of metaphysical idealism. The various essays explain, attack, or defend a variety of idealistic theories, including not only Berkeleyan and Kantian idealisms but also those developed in traditions less familiar to analytic philosophers, including Buddhism and Hassidic Judaism. Although a number of the articles draw on historical sources, all will be of interest to philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to spark a revival of serious philosophical interest in metaphysical idealism.
Author: Georg Simmel Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226757854 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 238
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Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career—the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.
Author: Robert Stalnaker Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199251487 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 300
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Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume the extent of his work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays presented reflect on the nature of metaphysics, with two of the essays featured being published for the first time.
Author: James Stacey Taylor Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199751137 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 286
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The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
Author: Graham Nerlich Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521452619 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 299
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Eleven of Graham Nerlich's essays are here brought together dealing with ontology and methodology in relativity; variable curvature and general relativity; and time and causation.
Author: Stephen Toulmin Publisher: ISBN: 9780334046172 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Metaphysical Beliefs consists of three long essays, by Stephen Toulmin on 'Contemporary Scientific Mythology'; by Ronald Hepburn on 'Poetry and Religious Belief'; and by Alasdair Maclntyre on 'The Logical Status of Religious Belief'.
Author: Donald C. Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198810385 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 254
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Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. This book will be the definitive source for his highly original work, which did much to bring metaphysics back into fashion. It presents six classic papers and six previously unpublished, revealing his full philosophical vision for the first time.
Author: Galen Strawson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198250061 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 469
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Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? We all have experience of having or being a self, a hidden inner mental presence. Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think.
Author: John Hawthorne
Author: John Hawthorne
Author: John P. Hawthorne
Author: Tyron Goldschmidt
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