CK - Metaphysics 2

The text before you is a study ofthe problematic issue ofmental causation: causation by minds. On hearing the expression 'mental causation,' you may at first think ofsomething like bending spoons by……続きを見る

The Writings of Charles De Koninck, volumes 1 and 2, present the first English editions of collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906–1965). Ralph McInerny (1929–20……続きを見る

William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept ……続きを見る

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. T……続きを見る

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, ……続きを見る

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today’s well-established physical theories. We propose an ontolo……続きを見る

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that the human mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the source……続きを見る

Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view, when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to occur, a c……続きを見る

The new consciousness is a streamlined spiritual perspective on life whose time has come at last. It is not a new religion or sect; neither is it a cult or a fad. It has no doctrines or creeds. Rath……続きを見る

Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual requestーasking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy,……続きを見る

The assignment events, objects, state of beings, etc., to an experiential category is a fundamental activity carried out by human (and by other animals). So rudimentary are the processes involved in……続きを見る

Im Gegensatz zu Du Bois-Reymonds hielt der deutsche Zoologe Ernst Haeckel die Welträtsel für lösbar. Er machte den Ausdruck Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts mit seinem Buch "Die Welträtsel" äußerst populär……続きを見る

This monograph examines the metaphysical commitments of the new mechanistic philosophy, a way of thinking that has returned to center stage. It challenges a variant of reductionism with regard to hi……続きを見る

This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning. What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the way……続きを見る

Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief. Current debate has centred around the nature of the justification and whether justified belief can be considered a……続きを見る

This classic introduces the concepts and uses of probability theory. It demonstrates, without the use of higher mathematics, the application of probability to games of chance, physics, reliability o……続きを見る

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1850) is increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth-century philosophers. A philosopher and mathematician of rare talent, he made ground-breaking contributions t……続きを見る

The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creaturesーand perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up……続きを見る

Irrespective of our individual life goals, we all just want to be happy. But how can we get there? Fortunately, life contains inherent intelligence designed to guide us to our very dreams. This inte……続きを見る

“The subject of this slim and lucid volume is the wondrous intelligibility of experience as it comes to light through philosophical attentiveness to the richly articulated whole of the world. Linck ……続きを見る

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, surnommé le Vieux Sage de la Forêt Noire, (1896 – 1988) nous enseigne comment passer du psychologique au spirituel. Psychologue et philosophe, l'oeuvre de Karlfried Graf Dü……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'histoire, a dit Bâcon, est naturelle, civile, ecclésiastique ou littéraire. J'avoue que les trois premières parties existent ; mais je note la quatrième comme nous manquant tout à fait.……続きを見る

This book introduces the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the human person to a contemporary audience, and reviews the ways in which this view could provide a philosophically sound foundation for mode……続きを見る

Cliff Hamrick is a middle-aged counselor suffering from life-long depression and anxiety. Though he had tried hundreds of ways to overcome his mental illness, nothing had any lasting benefits. For y……続きを見る

Of all the problems, or rather mysteries, with which philosophy deals, those concerned with the nature and objectivity of human knowledge hold a privileged position. In The Concept in Thomism this p……続きを見る

If there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas's natur……続きを見る

Irrespective of our individual life goals, we all just want to be happy. But how can we get there? Fortunately, life contains inherent intelligence designed to guide us to our very dreams. This inte……続きを見る

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, S……続きを見る

In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration……続きを見る

From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of beingーtwo t……続きを見る