Author: Montgomery Furth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: metaphysics, aristotelean, psyche, form, substance
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0521035619
ISBN-13: 9780521035613

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle’s metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the ’substances’ are the living things, the organisms: chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the book: Part I, a treatment of the concepts of substance and nonsubstance in Aristotle’s Categories; Part III, which discusses some important features of biological objects as Aristotelian substances, as analysed in Aristotle’s biological treatises and the de Anima; and Part V, which attempts to relate the conception of substance as interpret

Author: John Fischer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: philosophy, series, stanford, death, metaphysics
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0804721041
ISBN-13: 9780804721042

This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. This issue is more basic and abstract than such moral questions as the particular conditions under which euthanasia is justified, if it is ever justified.Though there are important connections between the more abstract questions addressed in this book and many contemporary moral issues, such as euthanasia, suicide, and abortion, t

Author: Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher: Ridgeview Pub Co
Keywords: themes, kantian, variations, metaphysics, science
Published: 1993-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0924922117
ISBN-13: 9780924922114

Author: David A. White
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Keywords: phaedo, plato, metaphysics, myth
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1989-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0945636016
ISBN-13: 9780945636014

Author: Dr. Ronald Keast
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: metaphysics, quantum, wonder, waltz, dancing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-06-09
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1440136955
ISBN-13: 9781440136955

In Dancing in the Dark: The "Waltz in Wonder" of Quantum Metaphysics, Dr. Ronald Keast examines the exciting and spooky scientific theories about the fundamental nature of reality and truth that have been proposed by the revolutionary science of quantum mechanics. These quantum theories, which are at the leading edge of contemporary science, propose that at the most elementary, sub- atomic level- that which underlies and is the foundation of our world, our universe, all that is - reality is radically uncertain. The certainties of science, which, for all practical purposes, replaced those of re

Author: Peter Loptson
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: philosophica, metaphysics, topics, fundamental, reality
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2009-12-19
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0776607081
ISBN-13: 9780776607085

In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in ancient, Kantian, post-Kantian, and contemporary philosophy, showing them to be unsuccessful. He draws the topics of his selective investigation of metaphysics partly from the work of Kant, whom he conceives iconically as a primary guide to what metaphysical enquiry seeks to know. He provides accounts of

Author: Alexander Bird
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: properties, laws, metaphysics, nature
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-01-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0199573115
ISBN-13: 9780199573110

Nature’s Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that laws are metaphysically necessary. Professional philosophers and advanced students working in metaphysics and the philosophy of science will find this book both provocative and stimulating.