Citing the fundamental role in contemporary ontology that notions of substance and causality still play, the editors hope to reveal some aspects worthy of debate that could stimulate further inquiry.
He begins with his conclusion: yes. Weingartner shows in detail that there is both order and chance in nature, and both come in weaker and stronger types. His topics include whether providence in conc
Quantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas physicalism implies a reductive position in the philosophy of mind, quantum physics is compatible with non-
In this collection of selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang 2013), interdisciplinary contributors from linguistics and phil
Meixner explores conflicting philosophies of psychology or philosophies of mind, one epitomized by Czech-born German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and the other by Austrian-British philosophe
The series offers a publication forum for innovative works on all topics of analytic philosophy.The focus is on the disciplines of theoretical philosophy: metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, philosop
The book provides philosophical interpretations of pragmatic issues. It concentrates on well-established concepts such as presupposition, entailment, implicature, speech acts, subsentential speech act
Elements argues for an ontology derived of ten theses detailing the natures and fundamental ontic status of attribution and structure. Attribution assayed as intension-conditioned unifying-agency yiel
Post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, while in recent years, following the lead of Fred Sommers, the viability of a renewed logic of terms has b
Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research. This volume discusses the relevance and possible us
Investigating the interplay of a priori and a posteriori points of view in metaphysics, scholars of philosophy focus on the ontology of space and time. The central idea is that difficult problems typi
Today, quantum field theory (QFT)—the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics—is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the
