Metafysik & ontologi

Världen som vilja och föreställning är Arthur Schopenhauer s stora, filosofiska livsverk. Hans filosofi erbjuder en världsåskådning, ett sätt att betrakta tillvaron i dess helhet, utifrån en metafysisk grund. Hos honom kombineras västerländsk filo...

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Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, rel...

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'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathu...

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Hur uppkom livet på jorden? Är vi ensamma i universum? Är tidsresor möjliga? Och vad döljer sig bortom det vi kan se? I den här boken ger den bästsäljande författaren och fysikern Lawrence Krauss inblick i de kvarstående mysterier som femhundra år...

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Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated from the with an introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred in Penguin Classic...

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Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguish...

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Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information ...

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An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an em...

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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its ver...

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I Vad är metafysik? kretsar Martin Heidegger s tänkande kring intet, något som människan blir varse i ångesten. I denna erfarenhet förlorar det varande sin självklarhet, det ter sig plötsligt främmande, och därmed friläggs den ursprungliga öppenhe...

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LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Mesmerising' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Monumental' The Telegraph Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. ...

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'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of t...

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EN NY REVOLUTIONERADE FRAMTIDSVISION FRÅN FÖRFATTARNA SOM FÖRUTSPÅDDE IT-BUBBLAN OCH 11 SEPTEMBER Cyberfilosoferna och framtidsforskarna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist är tillbaka. Efter Futuricatrilogins träffsäkra profetior har de nu formuler...

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As the failures of physicalism begin to shake the¿confidence of even the most biased of its supporters, a new view on the nature of reality is establishing itself as the only tenable alternative: Analytic Idealism. According to it,¿there is a worl...

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'Mindblowing' Michael Pollan Why do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and technology reveal truth? The Flip shows us what ha...

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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) verkade från år 1900 som professor vid Collége de France i Paris, och många av tidens tänkare och konstnärer samlades kring honom. I sitt minnestal över Bergson i Franska Akademien sa Paul Valéry: "Hans stora insats är at...

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Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics,...

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the...

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What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea...

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A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and...

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The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and u...

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Metaphysics-the philosophical study of the nature of reality-is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. A concise and focused introduction to contemporary metaph...

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subje...

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Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy n...

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