Category Archives: Metaphysics

The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology (Contributions To Phenomenology)

In Chapter 1, I explain why temporal syntheses, although distinguished from associative syntheses, count among the most fundamental phenomena of the passive sphere. I draw on Husserl’s account of absolute consciousness, which ‘sublates’ pairs of opposites such as form/content and … Continue reading

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Time and Identity (Topics in Contemporary Philosophy)

The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience—it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all—and yet recalcitrant questions … Continue reading

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Emergence in Science and Philosophy (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to arise out … Continue reading

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Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World: A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger

“The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World” brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature … Continue reading

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The Metaphysics Within Physics

What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons, but what of the more intangible elements, such as laws of nature, universals, causation and the direction of time? Do they have a … Continue reading

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Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties

Nature’s Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that … Continue reading

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Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Logic and Language

Discussion of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the “resolute” reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn’s principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative … Continue reading

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Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy. However … Continue reading

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Plural Action: Essays in Philosophy and Social Science (Contributions To Phenomenology)

Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions. This volume contributes to current research on collective intentionality by pursuing three aims. First, some of the main … Continue reading

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Time, Space, and Metaphysics

Time, Space, and Metaphysics engages with major philosophical questions concerning time and space, a framework for the investigation being provided by the debate between the absolutists and the relationists, so between Newton and Leibniz, and their followers. The investigation brings … Continue reading

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