Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
A Case for Necessitarianism
1st Edition
By Amy Karofsky
January 29, 2024
This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author’s original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexamination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is the view that ...
A Map of Selves: Beyond Philosophy of Mind
1st Edition
By N.M.L. Nathan
January 29, 2024
A Map of Selves defines a concept of selfhood, radically different from the Cartesian, neo-Humean, materialist and animalist concepts which now dominate analytical philosophy of mind. A self, as this book defines it, is an enduring substance with a quality which is its constant possession, which it...
Relational Passage of Time
1st Edition
By Matias Slavov
January 29, 2024
This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related ...
Determinism, Death, and Meaning
1st Edition
By Stephen Maitzen
September 25, 2023
This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such things as death, regret, grief, and the meaning of life. The book argues that rationalism is the right attitude to take toward reality. It then shows that ...
Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature
1st Edition
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By William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, James Orr
September 25, 2023
This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature. It features original contributions by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotelianism in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of science, ...
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation
1st Edition
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By Ludger Jansen, Petter Sandstad
May 31, 2023
This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for contemporary issues, such as causation, explanation...
A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
1st Edition
By R.D. Ingthorsson
January 09, 2023
This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of ...
Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism
1st Edition
By Richard Gaskin
May 06, 2022
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from ...
Nominalism about Properties: New Essays
1st Edition
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By Ghislain Guigon, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
January 23, 2019
Nominalism, which has its origins in the Middle Ages and continues into the Twenty-First Century, is the doctrine that there are no universals. This book is unique in bringing together essays on the history of nominalism and essays that present a systematic discussion of nominalism. It introduces ...
Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism
1st Edition
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By Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, Howard Sankey
November 04, 2016
While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative ...
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
1st Edition
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By Daniel D. Novotný, Lukáš Novák
July 27, 2016
This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become ...
Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good
1st Edition
By Samuel C Wheeler
March 03, 2016
Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions ...