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  • Powers, Parts and Wholes

    Essays on the Mereology of Powers

    Edición de Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts–whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology.Powers are often assumed to be atomic, and yet what they can do—and what can happen to them—is complex. But if powers are simple, how can they have ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Essence in the Age of Evolution

    A New Theory of Natural Kinds

    de Christopher J. Austin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with the process and progress of evolution by natural selection. Christopher J. Austin challenges these ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Powers, Time and Free Will

    Edición de Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature. Which conception of laws of nature best fits with how we conceive of free will? And which constraints does our conception of the laws of nature place on how we think of free will? The metaphysics of causation ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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  • Philosophy in a New Century

    Selected Essays

    de John R. Searle ...
    John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas. They range widely across social ontology, where Searle presents concise and informative statements of positions developed in more detail elsewhere; ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Waning of Materialism

    Edición de Robert C. Koons, George Bealer ...
    Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Causation

    Edición de Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, Peter Menzies ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of ... Leer más

    $52.19 USD

  • Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings

    Edición de Timothy O'Connor, David Robb ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major topics within philosophy of mind. Robb and O'Connor have carefully chosen articles under the following headings:*Substance Dualism and Idealism*Materialism*Mind and Representation*ConsciousnessEach section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editors which ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Inductive Logic

    de Stephan Hartmann ...
    Series Libro 10 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    Inductive Logic is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. While there are many examples were a science split from philosophy and became autonomous (such as physics with Newton and biology with Darwin), and while there are, perhaps, topics that are of exclusively philosophical interest, inductive logic — as this handbook attests — is a research field where philosophers and ... Leer más

    $247.99 USD

  • Metaphysics of Consciousness

    de William Seager ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental. This "inexplicability" is demonstrated not to be sufficient as refutation of physicalism. However, the inescapable particularity of modes of consciousness appears to overpower this minimal physicalism. This book proposes that such an inference requires either a ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Theories of Consciousness

    An Introduction and Assessment

    de William Seager ...
    Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • The Future of the Philosophy of Time

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • What Tends to Be

    The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality

    de Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford ...
    People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. Plants tend to grow and thrive in sunlight and mild temperatures. We also know that tendencies are not perfectly regular and that there are patterns in the natural world, which are reliable to a degree, but not absolute. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD