Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: metaphysics, analytical, volume, modality, necessity, possibility, amp
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 081533382X
ISBN-13: 9780815333821

Author: Tracy Smith
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Keywords: metaphysics, consequences, thomas, aquinas, conditionals, modal, dialectic, thirteenth, century
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009-07-02
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 3639175298
ISBN-13: 9783639175295

Among medieval studies, one of the areas of debate is whether consequences arose from dialectic or from Prior Analytic commentaries and the place of metaphysics in this development. The following work investigates this development using modal conditional semantics and consequences. The work suggests conditional syllogistics led to the rise of consequences from both dialectic and developments in conditional expressions. Due to Aquinas¿ emphasis upon metaphysics and his use of conditional expressions, Aquinas is an exceptional source for a scientific investigation. The following work

Authors:Vincent Shen, Tran Van Doa,
Publisher: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
Keywords: culture, morality, metaphysics, vol, chinese
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1992-05-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1565180275
ISBN-13: 9781565180277

Authors:Ibn Rushd, Hans Daiber,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: ibn, metaphysics, rushd, theology, science, studies, philosophy, texts, aristotle, translation, introduction, commentary, book, islamic
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 1986-12
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 9004080937
ISBN-13: 9789004080935

Author: D. W. Hamlyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: metaphysics
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 1984-09-28
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521286905
ISBN-13: 9780521286909

This book provides an introduction to metaphysics. At the outset Professor Hamlyn distinguishes two conceptions of metaphysics running through the history of the subject. One, which goes back to Aristotle, is concerned with ontology, and with what has to exist for beings such as we are; the other separates appearance and reality and attempts to establish what really exists. Professor Hamlyn’s account of metaphysics conforms with the first tradition. This is not, however, primarily a historical exposition. The discussion concentrates on central metaphysical concepts and problems, includin

Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: metaphysics
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1420927493
ISBN-13: 9781420927498

Aristotle’s ’Metaphysics’ is a seminal work of philosophy from classical antiquity. One of Aristotle’s most important works and one of the first works on the subject of metaphysics, this volume represents an important edition in the canon of great classical literature. Students of metaphysics and classical philosophy will find much of interest in this edition from the translation of W. D. Ross.

Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: metaphysics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-10-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1605203181
ISBN-13: 9781605203188

The writings of Greek philosopher ARISTOTLE (384BC–322BC)—student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great—are among the most influential on Western thought, and indeed upon Western civilization itself. From theology and logic to ethics and even biology, there is no area of human knowledge that has not been touched by his thinking. In The Metaphysics—considered by many the greatest works not just of Aristotle but of the entire discipline of philosophy—the philosopher explores the most fundamental of questions: What is existence? Why does anything exist? How can we comprehend “be