Metaphysical Perspectives

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268102920

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Metaphysical Perspectives by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the architecture of nature at large, (2) ourselves as nature's denizens and our potential for learning about it, and (3) the transcendent domain of possibility and value. Rescher engages issues across a wide range of metaphysical themes, from different worldviews and ultimate questions to contingency and necessity, intelligent design and world-improvability, personhood and consciousness, empathy and other minds, moral obligation, and philosophical methodology. Over the course of this book, Rescher discusses, with his characteristic fusion of idealism and pragmatism, an integrated overview of the key philosophical problems grounded in an idealistically value-oriented approach. His discussion seeks to shed new light on philosophically central issues from a unified point of view.

Author : Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319736556

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Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana Pdf

This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view are real structures that ground properties and objects as well as perspectives. The notion of point of view has been of key importance in the history of philosophy, and different philosophical schools have used this notion to conduct analyses from the external reality to the inner phenomenal status, or even to construct an entire philosophical system. However, there has been a lack of systematic analysis of what a point of view is and what its structure is; this book fills the gap in the literature and makes the transition between semantics and epistemology, and the philosophy of science.

Author : Ira Rifkin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594735257

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Spiritual Perspectives on Globalization (2nd Edition) by Ira Rifkin Pdf

What is globalization anyway? What are spiritually-minded people— on all sides of the issue—doing and saying about it? The economic and cultural dynamic of globalization is transforming the world at an unprecedented pace. But what exactly is it? What are its origins? What is its impact on our spiritual lives? This lucid introduction surveys the religious landscape, explaining in clear and nonjudgmental language the beliefs that motivate spiritual leaders, activists, theologians, academics, and others involved on all sides of the issue. Included are the points-of-view of: Bah’s Buddhists Earth-based and tribal religions Hindus Jews Muslims Protestants Roman Catholics Unlike other books on this controversial issue, this easy-to-read introduction won’t tell you what to think; it gives you the information you need to reach your own conclusions. "As important as economics may be, it is not, as the great religions stress, the full measure of humanity. There is also connection to self, to others, to the ingrained values that have sustained cultures for generations and millennia, and to the belief in transcendence that gives it all meaning. In the end, what unnerves people most about globalization—including many in the West who may fairly be said to be on the winning side (economically, that is) of the process so far—is the threat it poses to that which is most precious to a life of satisfaction: our sense of meaning." —from the Conclusion

Author : Yuval Dolev
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262262521

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Time and Realism by Yuval Dolev Pdf

A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology. How does time pass? Does time itself move, or is time's passage merely an illusion? Analytic philosophers belong, for the most part, to one of two camps on this question: the tensed camp, which defends the reality of time's passage, conceiving the present as “ontologically privileged” over the past and future; and the tenseless camp, which denies time's passage and holds that all events, whatever their temporal location, are ontologically equal. In Time and Realism, Yuval Dolev goes beyond the tensed-tenseless debate to argue that neither position is conclusive but that the debate over them should be seen as only the first stage in the philosophical investigation of time. The next stage, he claims, belongs to phenomenology, and, he argues further, the phenomenological analysis of time grows naturally out of the analytic enterprise. Dolev shows that the two rival theories share a metaphysical presupposition: that tense concerns the ontological status of things. He argues that this ontological assumption is natural but untenable, and that leaving it behind creates a new viewpoint from which to study central topics in the metaphysics of time. Dolev shows that such a study depends on the kind of meticulous attention to our firsthand experiences that drives phenomenological investigations. Thus, he argues, phenomenology is the venue for advancing the investigation of time. Time and Realism not only analyzes the tensed-tenseless debate, resolving some of its central difficulties along the way, it transcends it. It serves as a bridge between the analytic and the continental traditions in the philosophy of mind, both of which are shown to be vital to the philosophical examination of time.

Author : Ed Younkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498546102

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Perspectives on Ayn Rand's Contributions to Economic and Business Thought by Ed Younkins Pdf

Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.

Author : Frode Kjosavik,Camilla Serck-Hanssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000727418

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Metametaphysics and the Sciences by Frode Kjosavik,Camilla Serck-Hanssen Pdf

This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science. A unique feature is the way in which it is guided both by history of philosophy, by interaction between philosophy and science, and by methodological awareness. In asking how metaphysics is possible in an age of science, the contributors draw on philosophical tools provided by three great thinkers who were fully conversant with and actively engaged with the sciences of their day: Kant, Husserl, and Frege. Part I sets out frameworks for scientifically informed metaphysics in accordance with the meta-metaphysics outlined by these three self-reflective philosophers. Part II explores the domain for co-existent metaphysics and science. Constraints on ambitious critical metaphysics are laid down in close consideration of logic, meta-theory, and specific conditions for science. Part III exemplifies the role of language and science in contemporary metaphysics. Quine’s pursuit of truth is analysed; Cantor’s absolute infinitude is reconstrued in modal terms; and sense is made of Weyl’s take on the relationship between mathematics and empirical aspects of physics. With chapters by leading scholars, Metametaphysics and the Sciences is an in-depth resource for researchers and advanced students working within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy.

Author : Daniel D. Novotný,Lukáš Novák
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134630097

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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics by Daniel D. Novotný,Lukáš Novák Pdf

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.

Author : Rebekka Hufendiek,Daniel James,Raphael van Riel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429787850

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Social Functions in Philosophy by Rebekka Hufendiek,Daniel James,Raphael van Riel Pdf

Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary social theory and empirical social research. This volume explores metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives on social functions and functional explanations in the social sciences. It aims to push the philosophical debate on social functions forward along new investigative lines by including up-to-date discussions of the metaphysics of social functions, questions concerning the nature of functional explanations within the social domain, and various applications of functionalist theorising. As such, this is one of the first collections to exclusively address a variety of philosophical questions concerning the nature and relevance of social functions.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498585118

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Understanding Reality by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

As a study in the methodology of metaphysics, the book seeks to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. It unfolds a train of thought to show that Reality both exists and has the nature it does for good reason, and specifically because this is somehow for the best.

Author : Timothy M. Mosteller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725273320

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Four Views on Christian Metaphysics by Timothy M. Mosteller Pdf

Four Views on Christian Metaphysics presents four prominent views held among Christians today on the major questions in philosophical metaphysics. What is the nature of existence itself? What is it for something to exist? What are universals? What is the soul? How do these things relate to God, in light of special and general revelation? The four Christian perspectives presented in this book are: Platonism, Aristotelianism, idealism, and postmodernism. The purpose of this book is to help Christians think deeply and carefully about a Christian view of the ultimate nature of reality and our place in it.

Author : Chandrasekharendra Saraswati (Jagatguru Sankaracharya of Kamakoti)
Publisher : New Delhi : Arnold Heinemann Publishers (India)
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015069667437

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Spiritual Perspectives by Chandrasekharendra Saraswati (Jagatguru Sankaracharya of Kamakoti) Pdf

Author : S. Boulter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137322821

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Metaphysics from a Biological Point of View by S. Boulter Pdf

Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an account of how we should conduct our business qua metaphysicians.

Author : Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0917930053

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Philosophical Perspectives by Wilfrid Sellars Pdf

Author : Armen Marsoobian,Kathleen Wallace,Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791404919

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Nature's Perspectives by Armen Marsoobian,Kathleen Wallace,Robert S. Corrington Pdf

Author : Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110566420

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Aristotle - Contemporary Perspectives on his Thought by Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou Pdf

This collection of essays by leading Aristotle scholars worldwide covers a wide range of topics on Aristotle's work from metaphysics, politics, ethics, bioethics, rhetoric, dialectic, aesthetics, history to physics, psychology, biology, medicine, technology. The thorough exploration of the issues investigated deepens our knowledge of the most fundamental concepts, which are crucial for an overall understanding of Aristotle’s work. Moreover, the contributors explore the relevance of Aristotle’s ideas to contemporary issues and provide new perspectives on the study of Aristotle’s thought. The essays of the volume were presented at the plenary sessions of the World Congress "Aristotle 2400 Years," organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on May 23-28 2016, in commemoration of the 2400th anniversary of Aristotle’s birth. The aim of the congress was to advance scholarship on all aspects of Aristotle’s work, both in philosophy and in the fundamental disciplines of science. The impressive number of 250 papers from 40 countries highlighted the fact that Aristotle’s work continues to exercise an influence on our intellectual lives on a global scale.