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This book sets out and examines the comprehensive theory of value advanced by G.W. Leibniz over the mature period of his career. Well-known as a mathematician, a physical scientist, a metaphysician, a theologian, and even as an engineer and inventor, he is less known as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-08
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Gibt es nur die Gegenwart? Oder gibt es die Vergangenheit immer noch? Diese Grundfrage der Philosophie wird auf eine zugängliche Art und Weise diskutiert, die kein Fachwissen voraussetzt. Stattdessen werden die Leser:innen auf eine ernsthafte philosophische...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-12
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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHEDTHE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2009-06-11
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In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Hegel’s Jena Moment remains the undiscovered continent of his thought. This book explores this continent by examining the Logic and Metaphysics fromHegel’s 1804-5 Jena System-Project, and it is the first book-length treatment of these works in English....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Nearly all properties are, to a certain extent, versatile: there are many different ways to instantiate them. Consider a light-blue scarf and a dark-blue gemstone. They share the property of being blue, despite being different kinds of objects and differing in the way...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-30
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Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-25
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Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-05
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Nearly all properties are, to a certain extent, versatile: there are many different ways to instantiate them. Consider a light-blue scarf and a dark-blue gemstone. They share the property of being blue, despite being different kinds of objects and differing in the way...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-05
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-01
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Time organizes things in a dynamic fashion, whereas space organizes things in a static fashion-so things in time undergo passage, whereas things in space do not. What makes the temporal organization of things dynamic? What is the nature of the passage of time?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-10
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It is a currently popular view that essences, laws, and logic are among the grounds of necessity and possibility. Another such idea relates essences, laws, and logic closely to causal explanations and to non-causal grounding explanations. The Sources of Necessity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-07
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-04
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Time organizes things in a dynamic fashion, whereas space organizes things in a static fashion-so things in time undergo passage, whereas things in space do not. What makes the temporal organization of things dynamic? What is the nature of the passage of time?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-01
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It is a currently popular view that essences, laws, and logic are among the grounds of necessity and possibility. Another such idea relates essences, laws, and logic closely to causal explanations and to non-causal grounding explanations. The Sources of Necessity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-23
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Stuff, Quality, Structure makes a case for identity metaphysics. It defends categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category, which Strawson calls 'stuff'. It argues for the ultimate metaphysical identity of things that other views...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-20
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