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There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework, whether emergence...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-19
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There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that our world is...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-02
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In Selves in Doubt, Eli Hirsch focuses on the importance of the first-person perspective to a normal human level of rational thought and behavior. Hirsch argues that an "I-blind" being—one who lacks the capacity to employ the first-person pronoun—could not be fully...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-20
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This book offers a new account of free will and a new solution to the free-will problem. The problem is this: We are morally responsible agents, and free will is required for responsibility; and yet free will seems impossible. Determinism is too restrictive, while...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-17
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There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that our world is...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-17
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There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework, whether emergence...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-17
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In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist when it is...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-16
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Contemporary metaphysics is most commonly approached in a piecemeal fashion, not systematically. Even those philosophers who end up with a metaphysical system tend to tackle issues one at a time, and do not presume that doing metaphysics systematically is a...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-04
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In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist when it is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-03
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Pragmatism Works presents what became a unified pragmatist view of quantum theory, science, and metaphysics developed over the past fifteen years. The essays show what work pragmatism can do in philosophy, but also in science. Indeed, the distinction between science and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-02
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Contemporary metaphysics is most commonly approached in a piecemeal fashion, not systematically. Even those philosophers who end up with a metaphysical system tend to tackle issues one at a time, and do not presume that doing metaphysics systematically is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-23
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Pragmatism Works presents what became a unified pragmatist view of quantum theory, science, and metaphysics developed over the past fifteen years. The essays show what work pragmatism can do in philosophy, but also in science. Indeed, the distinction between science and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-21
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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHEDTHE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were...
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Sphere
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2009-06-11
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Gibt es nur die Gegenwart? Oder gibt es die Vergangenheit immer noch? Diese Grundfrage der Philosophie wird auf eine zugängliche Art und Weise diskutiert, die kein Fachwissen voraussetzt. Stattdessen werden die Leser:innen auf eine ernsthafte philosophische...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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This book sets out and examines the comprehensive theory of value advanced by G.W. Leibniz over the mature period of his career. Well-known as a mathematician, a physical scientist, a metaphysician, a theologian, and even as an engineer and inventor, he is less known as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-12
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In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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Hegel’s Jena Moment remains the undiscovered continent of his thought. This book explores this continent by examining the Logic and Metaphysics fromHegel’s 1804-5 Jena System-Project, and it is the first book-length treatment of these works in English....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-26
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Nearly all properties are, to a certain extent, versatile: there are many different ways to instantiate them. Consider a light-blue scarf and a dark-blue gemstone. They share the property of being blue, despite being different kinds of objects and differing in the way...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-30
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