Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology

Does God Matter? features eleven original essays written by prominent philosophers of religion that address this very important, yet surprisingly n...

This volume explores the potential of employing a relational paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange. Bringing together scholars fr...

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A seri...

With his An Interpretation of Nietzsches On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life, Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsches second U...

Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in ph...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...

What can wonder engender in terms of religious, political, and broader social practice? Thinkers from Plato to Martin Heidegger and Cornelius Casto...

Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really change...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems c...

Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer mo...

Derek Parfit (19422017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Reasons and Persons is ar...

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration a...

First published in 1998, this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)...

This title was first published in 2002.This book challenges prevalent assumptions regarding questions and enquiry. It argues that instead of trying...

Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaards 1843 book Fear and Trembling shows precisely why he is regarded as one of the most significant and creative p...

This title was first published in 2003. The Logic of Equality proposes a formal-logical method for examining the indeterminacy of legal discourse, ...

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. In doing so, it aims ...

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-c...

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A seri...

This title was first published in 2001. Idealism, Metaphysics and Community examines the place of idealism in contemporary philosophy, and its rela...

First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to whic...

Medieval debates over divine creation are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between Intelligent Design Creationists and Evolutioni...