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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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The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity’s great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-11
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Theory Redux
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Many philosophers have shown sympathy to the thought that reality is fundamentally positive. Julio De Rizzo formulates this idea precisely by means of the notion of grounding, and examines how the resulting thesis fares with respect to three much discussed classes of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-02
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We often have reason to doubt our own ability to form rational beliefs, or to doubt that some particular belief of ours is rational. Perhaps we learn that a trusted friend disagrees with us about what our shared evidence supports. Or perhaps we learn that our beliefs...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of neo-Humeanism, built on a static ontology typified by its rejection of basic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of neo-Humeanism, built on a static ontology typified by its rejection of basic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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This is a book on metaethics—in particular, an inquiry into the metaphysical foundations of morality. After carefully exploring the metaphysical commitments, or lack thereof, of the leading versions of moral anti-realism, Kulp develops a new and in-depth theory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-14
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The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are built into the reductive method of explanation--the method whereby we study...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-31
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The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are built into the reductive method of explanation--the method whereby we study...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
We need to understand the impossible....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-06
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This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-25
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-24
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-24
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When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting. But in virtue of what is the striking a cause while the presence of oxygen is a background condition?When a fragile...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting. But in virtue of what is the striking a cause while the presence of oxygen is a background condition?When a fragile...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-12
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Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. Such facts appear in our explanations, inform many people's views about the structure of the world, and are part of philosophical interpretations in metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Yet, despite the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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Graham Priest presents an exploration of Buddhist metaphysics, drawing on texts which include those of Nãgãrjuna and Dõgen. The development of Buddhist metaphysics is viewed through the lens of the catu?ko?i. At its simplest, and as it appears in the earliest texts,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-25
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This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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