The Metaphysics

The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780486119885

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The ancient philosopher's enduring treatise features a refutation of skepticism, a contrast of metaphysics to the other sciences, and a meditation on the nature of the infinite.

The Metaphysics of Quantities

The Metaphysics of Quantities
Author: J. E. Wolff
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780192573940

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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces. The book first explores what it means for an attribute to be quantitative, and what metaphysical implications a commitment to quantitative attributes has. It then sets the stage to address the metaphysical and ontological consequences of the existence of quantitative attributes.

The Metaphysics of Trust

The Metaphysics of Trust
Author: Philip Goodchild
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781786614315

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This third volume in the series develops a metaphysics which is missing when trust is ordered around economic theories and institutions.

The Metaphysics of Powers

The Metaphysics of Powers
Author: Anna Marmodoro
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781136968341

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This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers — properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a world of only powers? What is the manifestation of a power? Are powers and their manifestations related by necessity? What are the prospects for dispositional accounts of causation? The papers focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific ontological domain -- whether philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology – investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power’s relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. A number of authors also engage in discussion with Humean and neo-Humean treatments of causation, thereby making contributions to a larger metaphysical debate beyond powers. Additionally, the authors engage critically with the latest contributions to the debate on powers in the literature, thereby bringing together in a wholesome and analytical way the most recent and noteworthy theoretical developments in this research field.

The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege

The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege
Author: E.H.W Kluge
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789401733878

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Die Sprachen sind nicht nach dem logischen Lineal gemacht. (Briefwechsel, p. 102) If success in solving problems is the hallmark of philosophical great ness, then Frege was not a great philosopher. But by that same token, very few if any other figure in the history of philosophy will qualify. On the other hand, if the hallmark of philosophical great ness is the opening up of new conceptual territory and the raising of hitherto unsuspected crucial questions, the shifting of philosophical perspectiv~ and the determination of subsequent lines of enquiry, then Frege must rank among the greatest philosophers of all times. He was the first to develop a completely formalized language and a logical system sufficiently powerful to generate arithmetic; he opened up the fields of philosophy of logic and arithmetic; his theses on sense reference and definition were seminal to almost all subse quent work done in the philosophy oflanguage; and his ontological speculations constituted the foundation of one of the most profound metaphysics ever developed: that of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus.

The Metaphysics of Love

The Metaphysics of Love
Author: Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1962
Genre: Human beings
ISBN: UOM:39015009099006

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The Metaphysics of Self realisation and Freedom

The Metaphysics of Self realisation and Freedom
Author: Colin Tyler
Publsiher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781845405694

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This first part of Colin Tyler’s new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836–1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual’s most valuable potentials and talents. This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship. It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world’s most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia. Dr Colin Tyler is Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and joint convenor of the Centre for British Idealism.

The Metaphysics of Oughtness

The Metaphysics of Oughtness
Author: Francis Landey Patton
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1887
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: PRNC:32101067017218

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