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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “barry loewer”
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  • Laws of Nature and Chances

    What Breathes Fire into the Equations

    by Barry Loewer ...
    Barry Loewer presents a novel account of the metaphysics of law of nature, chances, fundamental ontology, and the space-time arena they occupy. He calls this the Package Deal Account. This aims to answer Stephen Hawking's question "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" Loewer's account stands on the shoulders of David Lewis's Humean Best ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Probability Map of the Universe

    Essays on David Albert’s Time and Chance

    Edited by Barry Loewer, Brad Weslake, Eric Winsberg ...
    Philosophers debate the ideas and implications of one of the most important contemporary works in the philosophy of science, David Albert’s Time and Chance.In the twenty-odd years since its publication, David Albert’s Time and Chance has been recognized as one of the most significant contemporary contributions to the philosophy of science. Here, philosophers and physicists explore the implications ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • A Companion to David Lewis

    Edited by Barry Loewer, Jonathan Schaffer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    In A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, ... Read more

    $243.99 CAD

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  • Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics

    Edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman ...
    Series series Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics.Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysics in a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of which are newly commissioned for this volumeFeatures an introductory essay by the editors on the nature of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Philosophy of Time

    Edited by Adrian Bardon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move forward with regard to the field's core issues.The collection is unique in combining cutting edge work on time with a focus on the big picture of time ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Metaphysics

    by John W. Carroll, Ned Markosian ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reflect on metaphysical problems. The philosophical questions discussed include: What makes it the case that one event ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Ontological Mathematics for the Curious: An Introduction to Ontological Thinking

    by Dr. Cody Newman ...
    There’s a new kid on the block, a subject that can revolutionize humanity’s understanding of reality, while being completely rational and logical, and scrupulously avoiding faith and mysticism. It’s the long-awaited replacement for science. Only one subject can take over from science and that is the subject that is already at the core of science and gives it all of its power and success, namely ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Metaphysics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Michael J. Loux ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • How Mathematicians Think

    Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

    by William Byers ...
    To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Science

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Alex Rosenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume is a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the field.New features of the Third Edition ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Metaphysics Within Physics

    by Tim Maudlin ...
    What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons, but what of the more intangible elements, such as laws of nature, universals, causation and the direction of time? Do they have a place in the physical structure of the world? Tim Maudlin argues that the ontology derived from physics takes a form quite different from ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD