Metaphysical Essays

Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199291243

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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 : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191537561

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Metaphysical Essays by John Hawthorne Pdf

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 : John P. Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199291233

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Metaphysical Essays by John P. Hawthorne Pdf

"This book contains a selection of John Hawthorne's recent essays in metaphysics, including six previously unpublished papers. In these essays, he investigates some of the most fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, persistence, vagueness and causation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112099849124

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Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'ťat by Walter Bagehot Pdf

Author : George Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Ethics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1002295849

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Essays, Moral and Metaphysical by George Tucker Pdf

Author : Uttara Natarajan,Tom Paulin,Duncan Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134308675

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Metaphysical Hazlitt by Uttara Natarajan,Tom Paulin,Duncan Wu Pdf

The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a collection of previously unpublished essays by the foremost scholars in the field presents Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. It offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of his contemporaries and succeeding writers. This book is an essential contribution to a vital new aspect of Romantic studies and shows Hazlitt to be, as his memorial claims, 'The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age'.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199241414

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An Essay on Metaphysics by Robin George Collingwood Pdf

"With 'The nature of metaphysical study'; 'Function of metaphysics in civilizsation'; 'Notes for an Essay on logic.'"

Author : Georg Simmel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226757858

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The View of Life by Georg Simmel Pdf

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career—the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

Author : John P. Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : OCLC:764478087

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Metaphysical Essays by John P. Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Tyron Goldschmidt,Kenneth L. Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198746973

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Idealism by Tyron Goldschmidt,Kenneth L. Pearce Pdf

Idealism is the view that reality is fundamentally mental. Idealism has been influential historically, but it has been neglected in contemporary metaphysical debate. This volume of 17 essays by leading philosophers rectifies the situation.

Author : Robert C. Stalnaker,Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Robert C Stalnaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199251483

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Ways a World Might Be by Robert C. Stalnaker,Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Robert C Stalnaker Pdf

Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume the extent of his work in metaphysics. The central theme is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays presented reflect on the nature of metaphysics, with two of the essays featured being published for the first time.

Author : Graham Nerlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521452618

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What Spacetime Explains by Graham Nerlich Pdf

Eleven of Graham Nerlich's essays are here brought together dealing with ontology and methodology in relativity; variable curvature and general relativity; and time and causation.

Author : Robert C. Stalnaker
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530746

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Ways a World Might Be by Robert C. Stalnaker Pdf

Ways a World Might Be collects, and adds to, Robert Stalnaker's published papers on metaphysical issues. The central theme that runs throughout the book is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays contain both reflections on the general idea of a space of possibilities and attempts to use the framework of possible worlds to formulate and clarify semantic and metaphysical questions about properties and individuals, supervenience and essentialism, reference, thought and experience. The essays also reflect on the nature of metaphysics, and on the relation between metaphysical and semantic questions - questions about what there is and questions about how we talk and think about what there is. The book begins by asking what possible worlds are, and how we are able to represent and know about them. Stalnaker argues that we can take possibilities seriously without embracing the kind of modal realism that David Lewis defended, and can take them as fundamental without purporting to offer a reductive account of modality. He then turns to questions about the nature of properties and relations and their role in carving up a space of possibilities, and to questions about the nature of individuals, and the way they are identified across time and possible worlds. The essays in the last two sections of the book are concerned with the interaction of metaphysical and semantic issues, and with the place of subjective experience in our conception of an objective world as it is in itself. Two of the fourteen essays, plus an extensive introduction that sets the papers in context and makes explicit some of the essays' common threads, are published here for the first time.

Author : Georg Simmel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226273303

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The View of Life by Georg Simmel Pdf

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career—the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781473347052

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An Essay on Metaphysics by R. G. Collingwood Pdf

This early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in 1940 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'An Essay on Metaphysics' is an academic inquiry in the field of philosophy. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author, artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero. Another important influence was his father, a professor of fine art and a student of Ruskin. He published many works of philosophy, such as Speculum Mentis (1924), An Essay on Philosophic Method (1933), and An Essay on Metaphysics (1940).