Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology

Joseph Owens presents an introduction to metaphysics designed to develop in the reader a habitus of thinking. Using original Thomistic texts and Et...

Jean-Jacques Rousseaus international thought anticipates many of the political dynamics that have arisen through globalization and great power comp...

Materialism - the view that facts are dependent upon or reducible to physical processes - is one of the most long-standing and controversial of all...

In this book, James Filler traces the history of Being, understood as substance, from Parmenides through the Scholastics and ending with Descartes,...

This book approaches humanism in the new era in China by discussing the nature of value philosophy and by analyzing in depth the significance of va...

This book provides the first fully developed account of Frank Ramsey's theory of conditionals. It is divided into two parts. The first part of the ...

In his Rutgers Lectures, Timothy Williamson explains how contemporary philosophy suffers from a widespread pathology known as overfitting to natura...

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the outstanding philosopher-theologian of the Latin West between Augustine and the thirteenth century. As a pu...

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriels version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epi...

Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives. Firstly, to assess the speculative realist formulations of the real regarding the withdrawn ...

In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate...

'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The M...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational ...

Leo Bersanis career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, p...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the concept of collective responsibility is relevant to ongoing normative debates ...