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  • Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs

    by Joseph C. Schmid, Daniel J. Linford ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic proofs: Aquinas’s First Way, Aquinas’s De Ente argument, and Feser’s Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, Augustinian, Thomistic, and Rationalist proofs. The ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Process and Reality

    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Insight, Volume 3

    by Bernard Lonergan ...
    Series Book 3 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Scholastic Metaphysics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Edward Feser ...
    Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The God Conclusion: God and the Western Philosophical Tradition

    by Keith Ward ...
    Discover why …… Plato was not a world-hating totalitarian… Aquinas’s Five Ways are not so bad after all… Kicking stones cannot refute Bishop Berkeley… Schopenhauer was not quite an atheist… and other refreshing new perspectives on spiritual thinking in western philosophy.This entertaining book posits the theory that philosophy, far from being the enemy of religion, has more often than not ... Read more

    $9.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics

    Edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, Ross P. Cameron ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts:History of MetaphysicsOntologyMetaphysics and Science.Each section features an introduction which places the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Brief History of the Soul

    by Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Brief Histories of Philosophy
    This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soulAddresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Paradox

    by Margaret Cuonzo ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    Explore the fascinating, strange world of paradoxes—and the strategies used to solve them!Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Realism and the Aim of Science

    From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Real Essentialism

    by David S. Oderberg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like – can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD