| Author | : Dean Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2006-03-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199290598 |
The second volume of a series that acts as a forum for new works in the field of metaphysics. The collection offers a broad overview of the subject and features traditional topics as well as questions from neighbouring fields such as the philosophies of mind and science.
| Author | : Dean W. Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780199290581 |
This series is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in this highly fertile field of philosophy. The subject is broadly construed, taken to include not only perennially central topics (modality, ontology, and mereology; metaphysical theories of causation, laws of nature, persistence through time, and time itself; and realism and anti-realism in the many senses of these terms); but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions that open up within other subfields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science (questions about supervenience and materialism, the nature of qualia, mental causation, metaphysical implications of relativity and quantum physics, mereological theories of biological species, and so on). Besides independent essays, volumes are likely to contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions
| Author | : Karen Bennett |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2021-01-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0192893319 |
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
| Author | : Michael J. Loux |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 740 |
| Release | : 2005-09-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780199284221 |
Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.
| Author | : Mark Timmons |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 019164000X |
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
| Author | : Karen Bennett |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2013-12-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191505471 |
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 as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.
| Author | : Uriah Kriegel |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2022-02-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0192856685 |
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions. Each volume will highlight two themes to bring focus to debates. The series will reflect the diversity of methods adopted in contemporary philosophy of mind and provide a venue for rigorous and innovative work by both established and up-and-coming voices in the field. The themes covered in the second volume are doxastic states, the metaphysics of mind, and Spinoza's role in the history of philosophy of mind.
| Author | : Jonathan Kvanvig |
| Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Philosophy o |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2014-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198704771 |
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
| Author | : Jonathan Kvanvig |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2008-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199542651 |
This volume offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in this longstanding area of philosophy, which has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. The essays are broad-ranging, and as a whole are not specific to any particular creed.
