Author: Robert C. Stalnaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: metaphysical, essays, anti, ways, world
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-10-16
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0199251495
ISBN-13: 9780199251490

Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume his seminal work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The book begins with reflections on the general idea of a possible world, and then uses the framework of possible worlds to formulate and clarify some questions about properties and individuals, reference, thought, and experience. The essays also reflect on the nature of metaphysics, and on the relation between questions about what there is and questions about how we talk and think about what there is. Two of the

Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: essays, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199291241
ISBN-13: 9780199291243

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Author: Gary Tomlinson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: song, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0691004099
ISBN-13: 9780691004099

In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has always acted to open invisible, supersensible realms to the perceptions of its listeners. In doing so, it has articulated changing relations between the self and metaphysics. Tomlinson examines these relations as they have been described by philosophers from Ficino through Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche, to Adorno, all of whom worked to define the subject’s place in both material and metaphysica

Author: Ramon M. Lemos
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: investigations, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1988-03
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0838633072
ISBN-13: 9780838633076

Author: Lilly
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Keywords: autobiography, metaphysical, scientist
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-10-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0914171720
ISBN-13: 9780914171720

Tells the story of John Lilly’s discoveries from his early experiments; mapping the brains of monkeys and communication with dolphins, to his experience with consciousness expanding drugs. The book includes an update on Lilly’s work on human/dolphin communication and returning animals to the wild.

Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: meditations, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 076613976X
ISBN-13: 9780766139763

1932. This little book offers definite metaphysical methods of meditation for the student who has already struggled through the mobs of rowdy thought and has entered the portals of silence. The meditations are of three types: prayers or demands addressed to God, affirmations about God, and those spoken to the individual consciousness. Contents: devotion and worship; meditations on God; expansion of consciousness; on finding God; on material concerns; on self-improvement; Christmas meditations.

Author: Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: horror, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226450562
ISBN-13: 9780226450568

For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic notion dates back to the days of Socrates, there is still heated disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, the good, and God. This may make little practical difference to our lives, but it leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty, a feeling described by Kolakowski as "metaphysical horror." "The horror is this," he says, "if nothing truly exists except the Absolute, the Absolute is nothing; if nothing truly exists except myself, I am nothing." The aim of th