Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology books

Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about how we should live,...  Read More >>

Le transcendantalisme est ne d'un debat avec l'empirisme. Mais pour bien mesurer ce fait, il faut d'abord rappeler...  Read More >>

In this book, Tano S. Posteraro focuses on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not...  Read More >>

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In Suhrawardī’s Illuminationism, Jari Kaukua offers a new interpretation of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191...  Read More >>

This book also demonstrates that there are essential features of each category such that, while the alternatives...  Read More >>

The Lvov-Warsaw School was one of the most important currents in the 20th-century analytical movement. Kazimierz...  Read More >>

As close to an autobiography as London ever wrote, this brutally frank memoir of a lifelong struggle with alcohol...  Read More >>

The book makes the twofold normative claim that any legitimate scientific preoccupation with trust must necessarily...  Read More >>

The notion of a personal self took centuries to evolve, reaching the pinnacle of autonomy with Descartes’ ‘I think,...  Read More >>

Jan Patocka’s contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the...  Read More >>

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote two 'logic' books: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and The Logic of...  Read More >>

This volume completes, starting from chapter 6, the commentary by the young Philoponus on Aristotle’s Categories,...  Read More >>

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and...  Read More >>

In Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism, Dennis Schulting examines the themes of reflexivity,...  Read More >>

This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing...  Read More >>

This book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense...  Read More >>

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Aristotle’s Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner...  Read More >>

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In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very...  Read More >>

Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part,...  Read More >>

Volume Two of the Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the Free School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum:...  Read More >>

Jan Patocka’s contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the...  Read More >>

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