Metaphysics

Metaphysics
Author: William Hasker
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1983-08-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780877843412

Helping readers create a consistently Christian worldview, William Hasker addresses key questions of metaphysics and discusses possible answers. In the Contours of Christian Philosophy series.

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780253214294

This book, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredome, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.

Metaphysics

Metaphysics
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804745284

This volume makes available in English for the first time the famed lectures on metaphysics by one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint.

What is Metaphysics?

What is Metaphysics?
Author: John Heil
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-08-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1509546502

If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or presuppositions, which allow us to make sense of it. Drawing on examples from art, science, and daily life, John Heil shows how metaphysics begins in questioning our everyday assumptions about how the world “works” and ends with speculation on the nature of the universe itself. In chapters that cover the major topics in the academic study of metaphysics, from free will and consciousness to time and objectivity, Heil explains how metaphysical questions underpin everything human beings do. This accessible book will show you how professional philosophers try to categorize and make sense of our world of perception and experience and explains why everyone should take metaphysics seriously.

Introduction to Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics
Author: Jean Grondin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231148453

This history of metaphysics respects both the analytic and Continental schools while also transcending the theoretical limitations of each. The book provides an overview restoring the value of metaphysics to contemporary audiences.

Metaphysics

Metaphysics
Author: Robert C. Koons
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1405195738

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics. Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy Introduces readers to the seminal works of contemporary and historic philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Russell, David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Kit Fine, Peter van Inwagen, John Hawthorne and many others Explores key questions while identifying important assumptions, axioms, and methodological principles Addresses topics in ontology, modality, causality, and universals; as well as issues surrounding material composition, persistence, space, and time

Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality

Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality
Author: Mircea Dumitru
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192598295

This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and innovative contributions to several areas of systematic philosophy, including philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as to a number of topics in philosophical logic. These contributions have helped reshape the agendas of those fields and have given fresh impetus to a number of perennial debates. Fine's work is distinguished by its technical sophistication, philosophical breadth, and independence from current orthodoxy. A blend of sound common-sense combined with a virtuosity in argumentation and constructive thinking is part and parcel of Kit Fine's lasting contributions to current trends in analytic philosophy. Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.