Metaphysical Research – serie
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God´s Existence. Can it be Proven?
A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas
Inbunden, 2010
993 kr
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The aim of the book is to show that the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, i.e. his five arguments to prove the existence of God, are logically correct arguments by the standards of modern Predicate Logic. In the first chapter this is done by commenting on the two preliminary articles preceeding the Five …
On Human Persons
Av Klaus Petrus
Häftad, 2003
543 kr
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There is no question: We are all persons. But what exactly are persons? Are we immaterial souls or Cartesian Egos which only contingently have bodies? Or are persons nothing over and above their bodies? Are they essentially or most fundamentally animals, evolved beings of a certain sort? Or are we …
John Heil
Symposium on his Ontological Point of View
Inbunden, 2006
571 kr
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Fifty years after Willard Van Orman Quine published From a logical point of view (1953), John Heil brought out his book 'From an ontological point of view' (2003). The title expresses the shift in contemporary philosophy from logical and epistemological concerns to metaphysics. The papers of this …
menschliche Seele
Av Bruno Niederbacher, Edmund Runggaldier
Inbunden, 2006
1143 kr
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Dualistische Ansichten über den Menschen galten bis vor kurzem als veraltet oder gar als tot. In neuester Zeit sind sie aber von namhaften Philosophen zu neuem Leben erweckt worden. Warum vertreten sie dualistische Positionen? War Platon Dualist? Brauchte Aristoteles einen Dualismus? Müssen …
Mental Causation
Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World
Inbunden, 2008
2679 kr
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This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of …
Applied Ontology
An Introduction
Av Katherine Munn, Barry Smith
Inbunden, 2008
2321 kr
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Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in creating structured, automated representations, called ‘ontologies,’ for …
Metaphysics of Extrinsic Properties
Inbunden, 2010
1962 kr
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This book aims to develop a philosophical theory of extrinsic properties – of properties whose instantiation by an object does not only depend on what the object itself is like, but also on features of its environment. Various accounts of the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction are analysed in detail, …
