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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-08
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Metaphysics—the philosophical study of the nature of reality—is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. A concise and focused introduction to contemporary metaphysics, This is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-05-07
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This is Philosophy
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From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans,...
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Polity
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2020-05-07
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, really exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not. His discussion considers four main facets of the idea...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-23
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Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics. Many of the chapters in this volume focus...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-16
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Die «Schlusslogische Letztbegründung» sucht Antwort auf die Frage: Wie ist Philosophie als Wissenschaft möglich? Sie führt damit das Projekt einer ontologisch relevanten Logik fort, das seit der Antike im Zentrum der Geschichte des Idealismus und der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-03
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In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. What is it supposed to accomplish and how? She collects evidence from the Critique and his other writings to determine what Kant took himself to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-19
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In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. What is it supposed to accomplish and how? She collects evidence from the Critique and his other writings to determine what Kant took himself to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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Perception is basic for human knowledge and a major concern of both epistemology and the philosophy of mind. The scholarship in this area, however, has left two important aspects of perception underexplored: its relevance to understanding a priori...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-06
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There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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Das Handbuch bietet erstmals eine Gesamtschau einer der philosophischen Grunddisziplinen seit den antiken Ursprüngen der Philosophie. Die Frage danach, was das „Seiende als Seiendes“ eigentlich sei, und was „Sein“ als erste und fundamentalste Bestimmung der Wirklichkeit...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-17
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The Discourse on Metaphysics is one of Leibniz´s fundamental works. Written around January 1686, it is the most accomplished systematic expression of Leibniz's philosophy in the 1680s, the period in which Leibniz's philosophy reached maturity. Leibniz's goal in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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Quantum theory is widely regarded as one of the most successful theories in the history of science. It explains a hugely diverse array of phenomena and is a natural candidate for our best representation of the world at the level of 'fundamental' physics. But how can the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-13
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The Discourse on Metaphysics is one of Leibniz´s fundamental works. Written around January 1686, it is the most accomplished systematic expression of Leibniz's philosophy in the 1680s, the period in which Leibniz's philosophy reached maturity. Leibniz's goal in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-13
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This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-11
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