Outlines of Metaphysics
Author: John Stuart Mackenzie
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 196
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Outlines of Metaphysics: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze
Author: Hermann Lotze
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvaita Epistemology and Metaphysics
Author: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1136868909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition.
Metaphysics
Author: Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphysics, in its classical version, deals with the basic understanding of reality i.e. things as concretely existing; it tries to give the answers to the following questions: What is being? Which are the transcendental proprieties of being and how to understand them? What is the structure of being, founding the problem of the causes and casuality as such? How to understand the analogy of being and connected with it the analogy of knowledge, in the ultimate perspective of the existence of God? The solutions of these problems go through the understanding of the interpretations of being given by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and modern thinkers.
Outlines of Metaphysics
Author: John Stuart MacKenzie
Publisher: Rolland Press
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1409766233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Macroscopic Metaphysics
Author: Paul Needham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 3319709992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather than the physics that is more usually encountered in philosophical discussions. The central chapters dealing with the nature of matter pursue key steps in the historical development of scientific conceptions of chemical substance. Like many contemporary discussions of material objects, it relies heavily on mereology. The classical principles are applied to the mereological structure of regions of space, intervals of time, processes and quantities of matter. Quantities of matter, which don’t gain or lose parts over time, are distinguished from individuals, which are typically constituted of different quantities of matter at different times. The proper treatment of the temporal aspect of the features of material objects is a central issue in this book, which is addressed by investigating the conditions governing the application of predicates relating time and other entities. Of particular interest here are relations between quantities of matter and times expressing substance kind, phase and mixture. Modal aspects of these features are taken up in the final chapter.
Aristotle Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle
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Total Pages: 301
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the full text of "Metaphysics," by Aristotle, presented by the Perseus Project of the Department of Classics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Includes author information and help for texts and text tools. Offers Greek text with morphological links. Links to the home page of the Perseus Project.
First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature
Author: F. W. J. Schelling
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 079148551X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppearing here in English for the first time, this is F. W. J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German Idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductivist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole.
Metaphysics to Metafictions
Author: Paul S. Miklowitz
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-08-06
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780791438787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.
Metaphysics and Its Task
Author: Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999-07-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1438404603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy offering the first systematic analysis of the nature of the discipline, Metaphysics and Its Task answers why metaphysics always recovers from the attacks it has been subjected to throughout its history. This is done by examining its object, method, aim, and the kind of propositions of which it is composed. In addition to presenting a new conception of metaphysics and an explanation of the resilience of the discipline, the book offers a novel understanding of the nature and ontological status of categories, an analysis of the nature of reductionism and its role in philosophy, and a discussion and criticism of the main views concerning the nature of metaphysics developed in the history of philosophy. In this nonsectarian book Gracia uses sources ranging from Plato and Aquinas, to Collingwood and Strawson. Written in nontechnical language, it is accompanied by detailed bibliographical references.
