Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology

This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topi...

The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented o...

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, cant be right. I...

A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between conventional and magical nominalism in philosophy, history, aestheti...

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the partswhole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extens...

For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-...

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time.The lecture...

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founde...

This book empirically investigates the nature of time biases. Many philosophers think that it is rationally permissible to prefer a life that is ov...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

Understanding what something is is a project that has long occupied philosophers. Perhaps no thinker in the Western tradition has had more influenc...

It is frequently claimed that an all-loving and good God cannot permit anyone to end up in hell. In this book, the author shows that this issue of ...

The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former's perspective, but without falling in...

The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former's point of view, but without falling ...

This Element will provide an essential tracing of selected Greek views of the afterlife which engage in dynamic tension with the Christian understa...

This Element will provide an essential tracing of selected Greek views of the afterlife which engage in dynamic tension with the Christian understa...

This Element intends to contribute to the debate between Islam and science. It focuses on one of the most challenging issues in the modern discussi...

This Element intends to contribute to the debate between Islam and science. It focuses on one of the most challenging issues in the modern discussi...

Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, sinc...

In der Vorrede zur ersten Auflage der Religionsschrift macht Kant unmissverständlich klar, dass der zur Moral verbundene Mensch der Idee eines Wese...

This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is in...

Immanuel Kant hat wie kein anderer Denker die Philosophie der Neuzeit geprägt. Aufgrund seiner überragenden Bedeutung liegen inzwischen mehrere Bän...

Ist libertarische Handlungsfreiheit eine Voraussetzung moralischer Verantwortung im tugendethischen Sinn? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird die l...