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Properties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism

Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism

1st Edition

Edited By Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, Howard Sankey
November 04, 2016

While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative ...

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel D. Novotný, Lukáš Novák
July 27, 2016

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 ...

Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics From the True to the Good

Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good

1st Edition

By Samuel C Wheeler
March 03, 2016

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions ...

Freedom of the Will A Conditional Analysis

Freedom of the Will: A Conditional Analysis

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By Ferenc Huoranszki
April 23, 2015

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G. E. Moore’s famous conditional analysis of free will and discusses several questions about the meaning of free will and its significance for moral responsibility. Although Moore’ theory has a strong initial appeal, most metaphysicians believe...

The Puzzle of Existence Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

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Edited By Tyron Goldschmidt
August 12, 2014

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does ...

The Future of the Philosophy of Time

The Future of the Philosophy of Time

1st Edition

Edited By Adrian Bardon
November 08, 2013

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move forward with regard to the field's core issues. The...

The Metaphysics of Powers Their Grounding and their Manifestations

The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and their Manifestations

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Marmodoro
January 29, 2013

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers — properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a...

The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds

The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds

1st Edition

Edited By Helen Beebee, Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
April 20, 2012

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke’s views about the ...

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