Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the existence of anything l ... 続きを読む
Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. The ... 続きを読む
Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry. Kenneth A. Taylor argues that we should expect linguistic and conceptual analysis of natural la ... 続きを読む
Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth ... 続きを読む
This volume illustrates how the methodology of metaphysics can be enriched with the help of cognitive science.
Few philosophers nowadays would dispute the relevance of cognitive science to the metaph ... 続きを読む
This monograph bridges two discourses that so far have remained largely separate: debates about how and why secular modernity emerged, and Reformation studies. In telling the history of secularity, sc ... 続きを読む
This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and in ... 続きを読む
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of ... 続きを読む
Begins with a series of simple quesions as a practical task to introduce the concepts before the theory
Provides an insight into the concepts of metaphysics in a simple and clear way, working thr ... 続きを読む
This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substanc ... 続きを読む
