Thoughts
Thoughts

Author: Stephen Yablo

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0199266468

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In these twelve essays Stephen Yablo presents a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind, including mental/physical dualism, the possibility of disembodied existence, conceivability as a guide to possibility, the nature of solipsistic content, and how the mind affects the course of physical events.

Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness

Author: John Perry

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780262661355

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. This book defends a view called antecedent physicalism.

A Theory of the Absolute
A Theory of the Absolute

Author: Benedikt Paul Göcke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1137412828

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason.

Possibility
Possibility

Author: Michael Jubien

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-02-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0199232784

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Possibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, and starts instead the notion of a physical object and the positing of properties and relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, and proper names.

Modality
Modality

Author: Bob Hale

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-03-25

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0191572292

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.

Freedom, God, and Worlds
Freedom, God, and Worlds

Author: Michael J. Almeida

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0199640025

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Michael J. Almeida presents a bold new defence of the existence of God. He argues that entrenched principles in philosophical theology which have served as basic assumptions in apriori, atheological arguments are in fact philosophical dogmas. Almeida argues that not only are such principles false: they are necessarily false.

Anselm’s Other Argument
Anselm’s Other Argument

Author: Arthur David Smith

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0674725042

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Some commentators claim that Anselm’s writings contain a second independent “modal ontological argument” for God’s existence. A. D. Smith contends that although there is a second a priori argument in Anselm, it is not the modal argument. This “other argument” bears a striking resemblance to one that Duns Scotus would later employ.