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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
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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
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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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-04-15
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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
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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
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2019-01-24
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-16
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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
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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
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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
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2018-11-12
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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
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2018-10-25
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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
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2018-10-18
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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
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2018-10-04
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-04
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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
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2018-10-04
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What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-26
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This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-19
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Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
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Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests. Without causation, there would be no scientific understanding, explanation, prediction, nor application in new technologies. How we discover causal connections is no easy matter, however....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-10
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being.The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-23
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In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of matter (hule) and form (morphe or eidos) and a living organism is not exhausted by the body,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-23
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being.The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-22
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