Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
Metametaphysics and the Sciences: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Frode Kjosavik, Camilla Serck-Hanssen
September 30, 2021
This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science. A unique feature is the way in which it is guided both by history of philosophy, by interaction between philosophy and science, and by methodological awareness. In asking how metaphysics is ...
Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons: The Virtues of Non-Existence
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By Jiri Benovsky
December 18, 2020
In Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that he doesn't exist. In this book, he also defends the view that this book itself doesn't exist. But this did not prevent him to write the book, and although in Benovsky's view you don't exist either, this does not prevent you...
Fundamental Causation: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World
1st Edition
By Christopher Gregory Weaver
September 30, 2020
Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts, preventions, and omissions, as well as the debate between causal reductionists and causal anti-reductionists. The book also pays special attention to ...
Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience
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By Sean Enda Power
September 30, 2020
This book explores the important yet neglected relationship between the philosophy of time and the temporal structure of perceptual experience. It examines how time structures perceptual experience and, through that structuring, the ways in which time makes perceptual experience trustworthy or ...
Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology
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By David Ingram
September 30, 2020
Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is ...
Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar: A Neo-Aristotelian Mereology
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By Ross D. Inman
August 14, 2020
Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties, laws, causation, and modality in the neo-Aristotelian metaphysics literature, this book is one of ...
Nominalism about Properties: New Essays
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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
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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
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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 ...
Freedom of the Will: A Conditional Analysis
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By Ferenc Huoranszki
April 23, 2015
Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G. E. Moore’s famous conditional analysis of free will and discusses several questions about the meaning of free will and its significance for moral responsibility. Although Moore’ theory has a strong initial appeal, most metaphysicians believe...
The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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By Tyron Goldschmidt
August 12, 2014
This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does ...