Metaphysics

Gottlob Frege is one of the greatest logicians ever and also a philosopher of great significance. More than just an introduction to Frege's philosophy, this book is also a critical and mature assessment of it as a whole in which the limitations, confusions and other weaknesses of Frege's thought are..

Gottlob Frege is one of the greatest logicians ever and also a philosopher of great significance. More than just an introduction to Frege's philosophy, this book is also a critical and mature assessment of it as a whole in which the limitations, confusions and other weaknesses of Frege's thought are..

This title was first published in 2000. Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider world. The author asserts that this is due to a misplaced focus and that instead of focusing on explana..

The problem of abstract entities or objects is at the very heart of metaphysics, raising fundamental questions about existence and ontology.Some deny the very existence of abstract entities, others that there is a multitude of abstract entities. This book provides a thorough introduction to the prob..

An Invitation to Formal Reasoning introduces the discipline of formal logic by means of a powerful new system formulated by Fred Sommers. This system, term logic, is different in a number of ways from the standard system employed in modern logic; most striking is its greater simplicity and naturaln..

Analyticity, or the 'analytic/synthetic' distinction is one of the most important and controversial problems in contemporary philosophy. In this outstanding introduction to analyticity Cory Juhl and Eric Loomis provide a clear and thorough survey of the problem...

Arguing about Metaphysics is a wide-ranging anthology that introduces students to one of the most fundamental areas of philosophy. It covers core topics in metaphysics such as personal identity, the nature of being, time, and the concept of freedom. The volume contains scholarly articles by Quine, L..

This volume brings together original essays that reflect and engage with different disciplinary approaches to autoimmunity in the theoretical, medical or posthumanities, social and political theory and critical science studies. It aims to provide a topical intervention within the current discussion ..

The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence ..

First published in 1998, this volume responded to and evaluated criticisms of McTaggart’s atemporal philosophy of time, arguing that McTaggart’s atemporal world constitutes a strong foundation for a new theory on time...

This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation...

Without objective causal relations and universals, idealism and scepticism win the perennial philosophical battle. Thus claims Evan Fales, who argues for an empiricist yet realist view of this topic, and traces the implications of his view...