Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology

Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of Early Modern Scholasticism. Although Suárez spent most o...

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethi...

The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of t...

Cosmological reasoning is an important facet of classical arguments for the existence of God, but these arguments have been subject to may criticis...

Neither Nature nor Grace operates at the intersection of systematic and philosophical theology, exploring in particular how St. Thomas Aquinas vari...

In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here ex­plore di...

What makes us 'persons' in the moral sense, beings with a certain dignity and worth? Philosophers Nancy S. Jecker and Caesar A. Atuire explore this...

Alain Badious 19831984 lecture series on the One is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical con...

Control is a key ingredient of scientific experimentation; arguably, an uncontrolled intervention or manipulation is not even a genuine experiment....

Control is a key ingredient of scientific experimentation; arguably, an uncontrolled intervention or manipulation is not even a genuine experiment....

This book explores R.G. Collingwoods concept of metaphysics. It traces the evolution of Collingwoods thought on metaphysics through his published w...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most pr...

Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philoso...

For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Is there a shared nature common to al...