Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology books

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Agency at Work: Ethnographies in/of Late Industrialism

Agency at Work: Ethnographies in/of Late Industrialism...

Author: Małgorzata Kowalska ,  Monika Baer
ISBN: 9783631846094
Format: Hardback
$89.27

Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism,...  Read More >>

What, Why, & How?: Bottom-up Answers

What, Why, & How?: Bottom-up Answers

Author: Robert J Wheeler
ISBN: 9780578945163
Format: Paperback
$39.57

At some time most of us have wondered ""why?"" Why I am here struggling to make a living, to be comfortable and...  Read More >>

Antiquities Beyond Humanism

Antiquities Beyond Humanism

Author: Emanuela Bianchi (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University) ,  Sara Brill (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University)
ISBN: 9780192845832
Format: Paperback
$49.95

The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities...  Read More >>

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Author: Julia Weckend (Oxford University, UK) ,  Lloyd Strickland
ISBN: 9781032089843
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Leibniz made contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology,...  Read More >>

Volume 15, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Concepts: Individual to Novel

Volume 15, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Concepts: Individual...

Author: Steven M. Emmanuel ,  William McDonald
ISBN: 9781032098883
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Forgetting

Shakespeare and Forgetting

Author: Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA)
ISBN: 9781350211490
Format: Hardback
$170.00

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all...  Read More >>

Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition

Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition

Author: Michael Bergmann (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780192898487
Format: Hardback
$198.95

This book explores the varieties of radical skepticism and different ways of responding to them. It focuses on arguments...  Read More >>

Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

Author: Dominik Perler (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) ,  Sebastian Bender (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032091105
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern thought. It is unique in that it explores...  Read More >>

A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice

A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice

Author: Andreas Hüttemann
ISBN: 9781316519394
Format: Hardback
$201.83

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The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 1700–1900 CE

The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth...

Author: Douglas Hedley ,  Chad Meister
ISBN: 9781032095158
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in...  Read More >>

The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today: 1950–2018

The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to...

Author: Jerome Gellman ,  Charles Taliaferro
ISBN: 9781032095172
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This sixth volume of The History of Evil covers the Mid-Twentieth Century to today, focusing on the Second World...  Read More >>

Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception

Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception...

Author: Delphine Antoine-Mahut (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France) ,  Sophie Roux (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
ISBN: 9781032094816
Format: Paperback
$90.99

 This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. This book challenges...  Read More >>

Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds

Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural...

Author: Christopher J. Austin (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781032094755
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book offers a defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. Austin...  Read More >>

Post-Human Institutions and Organizations: Confronting the Matrix

Post-Human Institutions and Organizations: Confronting...

Author: Ismael Al-Amoudi (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Emmanuel Lazega (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
ISBN: 9781032085630
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and...  Read More >>

Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism

Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism

Author: Danny Frederick
ISBN: 9783030486396
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free...  Read More >>

Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science...

Author: Katherine Brading
ISBN: 9781032094137
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics. This book argues that Du...  Read More >>

The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century: 1900–1950 CE

The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century:...

Author: Victoria Harrison (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Chad Meister
ISBN: 9781032095165
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The fifth volume of The History of Evil covers the twentieth century from 1900-1950. The chapters in this volume...  Read More >>

Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza

Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes...

Author: Martina Reuter ,  Frans Svensson
ISBN: 9781032093529
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book focuses on the connections between reinterpreting Descartes and Spinoza.  Read More >>

Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments: What (if Anything) Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?

Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments: What (if Anything)...

Author: Jason Waller
ISBN: 9781032089737
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book investigates the debates and questions raised by cosmological fine-tuning. Waller argues that the only...  Read More >>

The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity

The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity...

Author: Kathleen Wallace
ISBN: 9781032093550
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book offers a systematic treatment of the notion of the self as constituted by social, cultural, political,...  Read More >>

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