Idealism

Idealism
Author: Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198746970

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are Berkeleyan idealism, which gives ontological priority to the mental (minds and ideas) over the physical (bodies), and Kantian idealism, which gives a kind of explanatory priority to the mental (the structure of the understanding) over the physical (the structure of the empirical world). Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. This book rectifies this situation by bringing together seventeen essays by leading philosophers on the topic of metaphysical idealism. The various essays explain, attack, or defend a variety of idealistic theories, including not only Berkeleyan and Kantian idealisms but also those developed in traditions less familiar to analytic philosophers, including Buddhism and Hassidic Judaism. Although a number of the articles draw on historical sources, all will be of interest to philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to spark a revival of serious philosophical interest in metaphysical idealism.

Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
Author: Jaegwon Kim
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019162506X

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation, mental causation and explanatory exclusion. Kim tackles questions such as: How should we understand the concept of "emergence", and what are the prospects of emergentism as a doctrine about the status of minds? What does an agent-centered, first-person account of explanation of human actions look like? Why aren't there strict laws in the special sciences - sciences like biology, psychology, and sociology? The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.

The Elements and Patterns of Being

The Elements and Patterns of Being
Author: Donald C. Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198810385

Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. This book will be the definitive source for his highly original work, which did much to bring metaphysics back into fashion. It presents six classic papers and six previously unpublished, revealing his full philosophical vision for the first time.

An Essay on Metaphysics

An Essay on Metaphysics
Author: Robin George Collingwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2001-05-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199241415

"With 'The nature of metaphysical study'; 'Function of metaphysics in civilizsation'; 'Notes for an Essay on logic.'"

Metaphysical Essays

Metaphysical Essays
Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019153756X

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science

Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
Author: Matthew H. Slater
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019936320X

This volume of new essays, written by leading philosophers of science, explores a broadly methodological question: what role should metaphysics play in our philosophizing about science? The essays address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and by more general methodological investigations.

The Importance of Subjectivity

The Importance of Subjectivity
Author: Timothy L. S. Sprigge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based.

Aristotle and Beyond

Aristotle and Beyond
Author: Sarah Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781107405851

Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live philosophizing. Written with clarity, precision without technicality, and philosophical imagination, they will engage a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of Ancient Greek philosophy and others working on more contemporary analytical concerns.

Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality

Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2003-05-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0195103769

This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The focus is on such fundamental issues in metaphysics as the nature of abstract objects.