This book explores the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts. A timely and unique exploration of the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, and faculty with interests in severa...Loe edasi...
Qualia, or phenomenal consciousness, refer to mental states which are supposedly ineffable, intrinsic, private, and immediately apprehensible in consciousness. This book argues that qualia do not exist, and there is no phenomenal consciousness. Furt...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, and affect in aesthetics. It provides new insights into how ornamentation shapes artistic, philosophical, and social practices, positioning it as...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-scale monograph on the intuitionism of W. D. Ross and is written a distinguished moral philosopher with expertise in epistemology, moral psychology, and the theory of human action....Loe edasi...
This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-cent...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinozas basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of how finite things, especially human minds, are in God....Loe edasi...
This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new action turn from 4E cognitive science with the new practice turn from the social sciences to develop a new p...Loe edasi...
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Can life be meaningful at all, and if it can, what exactly makes it so? This new volume in the Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Issues series addresses these questions through fictional dialogues a...Loe edasi...
Dialogues on Free Will presents a lively debate that will interest anyone wanting to think seriously about what free will requires and whether or not we have it....Loe edasi...
Featuring both defenders and critics of conventionalism, Conventionalism About Personal Identity will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars studying personal identity, metaphysics and ethics....Loe edasi...
Can libertarian free will survive our best physical theories? While prominent physicists argue that genuine agency contradicts science, this book demonstrates that contemporary physics actually provides robust foundations for human freedom....Loe edasi...
First published in 1963, this book stands as a bold challenge to the declaration that metaphysics has reached its end. It argues that philosophy, having wandered too long in arid landscape of linguistic analysis, can reclaim its vital purpose by bre...Loe edasi...
This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities. The author uses the theory developed to address three major topics in the metaphysics of concreta: fundamentality, persistence over time, and phenomenal consciousness....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary philosophy of mind into fruitful engagement with o...Loe edasi...
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art today....Loe edasi...
This book discusses ontology in the quantum world and argues that it should be interpreted as historicized ontology. This perspective is advocated by quantum histories interpretation....Loe edasi...
Moving deftly through key figures in the history of philosophy, including Descartes and Mill, The Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong is a pioneering work of ethics that continues to influence both analytical and phenomenological traditions i...Loe edasi...
