Contemporary Readings In The Foundations Of Metaphysics
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Method In Metaphysics
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Author : Andrew Beards
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Method In Metaphysics written by Andrew Beards and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Andrew Beards shows how Lonergan's philosophy can help to clarify not only particular issues in current debates but also the larger question of a basic method.
Contemporary Readings In The Foundations Of Metaphysics
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Author : Stephen Laurence
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1998-09-08
Contemporary Readings In The Foundations Of Metaphysics written by Stephen Laurence and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-08 with Philosophy categories.
This volume is a comprehensive survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of issues and provides students with the basic background to current debates in metaphysics.
Foundations Of Metaphysics
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Author : Chad Carmichael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Foundations Of Metaphysics written by Chad Carmichael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Garden Of Reality
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Author : Roland Faber
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-06-20
The Garden Of Reality written by Roland Faber and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-20 with Religion categories.
The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that the future of humanity is bound to conviviality with itself and the Earth, that the deepest religious motivations of existing together are relative to one another, and that transreligious relativity is essential to the conviction of religions that their motivations, experiences, and conceptualities are meaningful, real, and true. By engaging diverse voices from poststructuralism to Sufism, Dzogchen, and philosophical Daoism, from conceptual frameworks of Christianity and Hinduism to mystical and postmodern cosmology, current cosmopolitanism, and interreligious and interspiritual discourses, but especially understudied contributions of process thought and the Bahá'í religion, this book suggests that multireligious conviviality must listen to the universal relevance of a multiplicity of minority voices. Its polyphilic pluralism affirms the mutual immanence and co-creative nature of religions and spiritualities with the universal in-sistence of divine or ultimate reality in the cosmos. Embracing a relativistic and evolutionary paradigm in an infinite cosmos of creative becoming, religions must cope with events of novelty that disturb and connect, transcend and contrast, the continuum of their truth claims, but must avoid conflict, as religious diversity is enveloped by an ever-folding landscape of ultimate reality.
An Introduction To Ontology
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Author : Nikk Effingham
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-08-26
An Introduction To Ontology written by Nikk Effingham and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-26 with Philosophy categories.
In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today. He covers the key topics in the field, from the ontology of holes, numbers and possible worlds, to space, time and the ontology of material objects - for instance, whether there are composite objects such as tables, chairs or even you and me. While starting from the basics, every chapter is up-to-date with the most recent developments in the field, introducing both longstanding theories and cutting-edge advances. As well as discussing the latest issues in ontology, Effingham also helpfully deals in-depth with different methodological principles (including theory choice, Quinean ontological commitment and Meinongianism) and introduces them alongside an example ontological theory that puts them into practice. This accessible and comprehensive introduction will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as any reader interested in the present state of the subject.
Being A Primer
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Author : Christopher Berry Gray
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Being A Primer written by Christopher Berry Gray and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Philosophy categories.
Being A Primer rediscovers our appreciation of being. It does this by finding the dynamic of essence and existence that being requires. This dynamic expresses itself in single beings, in multiple beings and in sequential beings. Our acquaintance with being takes place across the whole of being by expressions that are as wide as being—single realities in what are called by transcendental names. Each being manifest this for itself and others beings are similar to some others, showing its likenesses and differences in relation to other singular beings. Beings’ dynamic of their essences and their existences does not just happen, but occurs by each following others, The multiplicity of beings shows itself by how the likenesses and the differences bring beings to be in succession, not only all at once. This structure of being permits some distinctive beings—spiritual, free, and godly—to be glimpsed as called for and from the primer of being as essence and existence.
Meta Metaphysics
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Author : Jiri Benovsky
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Meta Metaphysics written by Jiri Benovsky and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice.Before we get there, the philosophical path the author proposes to follow starts with three discussions of metaphysical equivalence. Benovsky argues that there are cases of metaphysical equivalence, cases of partial metaphysical equivalence, as well as interesting cases of theories that are not equivalent. Thus, claims of metaphysical equivalence can only be raised locally. The slogan is: the best way to do meta-metaphysics is to do first-level metaphysics.To do this work, Benovsky focuses on the nature of primitives and on the role they play in each of the theories involved. He emphasizes the utmost importance of primitives in the construction of metaphysical theories and in the subsequent evaluation of them.He then raises the simple but complicated question: how to make a choice between competing metaphysical theories? If two theories are equivalent, then perhaps we do not need to make a choice. But what about all the other cases of non-equivalent "equally good" theories? Benovsky uses some of the theories discussed in the first part of the book as examples and examines some traditional meta-theoretical criteria for theory choice (various kinds of simplicity, compatibility with physics, compatibility with intuitions, explanatory power, internal consistency,...) only to show that they do not allow us to make a choice.But if the standard meta-theoretical criteria cannot help us in deciding between competing non-equivalent metaphysical theories, how then shall we make that choice? This is where Benovsky argues that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties – grounded in non-aesthetic properties – and that these play a crucial role in theory choice and evaluation. This view, as well as all the meta-metaphysical considerations discussed throughout the book, then naturally lead the author to a form of anti-realism, and at the end of the journey he offers reasons to think better of the kind of anti-realist view he proposes to embrace. www.jiribenovsky.org
The Mind Of Whitehead
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Author : Roland Faber
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2024-05-30
The Mind Of Whitehead written by Roland Faber and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
For Alfred North Whitehead, the fundamental basis of reality is connectivity; the possibility, interdependence and actualisation that defy our human desire for structure, categorisation and division. In this spirit, Professor Roland Faber combines the disparate interests of Whitehead's study - from Mathematics to Divinity, Political Philosophy to Cosmology - to trace the thematic similarities of this work, and establish their unity in the 'mind' of Whitehead. Focussing on the experience of reading Whitehead's rich text, Faber invites the reader not to search for fixed patterns but to explore the impermanence and diversity of Whitehead's ideas. The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity.
On What Matters
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Author : Derek Parfit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07-11
On What Matters written by Derek Parfit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with Philosophy categories.
This is the second volume of a major new work in moral philosophy. It starts with critiques of Derek Parfit's work by four eminent moral philosophers, and his responses. The largest part of the volume is a self-contained monograph on normativity. The final part comprises seven new essays on Kant, reasons, and why the universe exists.