Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: metafísica y ontología

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  • But Where is the Rainbow?
    Geoffrey Stone
    This book introduces and defends a new theory about the speed of light. The Supervelocity and Selection theory of Light adheres to the original core postulates of special relativity while also circumventing the need for its relativistic distortions in time and space. This novel theory explains the observer-centred and observer-dependent traits of the speed of light much more ef...
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    22,30 €

  • THE WISDOM PROJECT A Call for Spiritual Conversation
    William Helbing
    THE WISDOM PROJECT book serves to inspire and guide creative thinking, conversation and discussion about what it means to be human ...
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    11,97 €

  • A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
    Ivette Fred-Rivera
    This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and...
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    146,39 €

  • Hegel and Speculative Realism
    Charles William Johns
    Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives. Firstly, to assess the speculative realist formulations of the real regarding the ’withdrawn’ object, radical contingency, the absolute register of extinction, and the current interest in ’powers philosophy’, with special attention to their possible relation to the absolute scope of Hegelian philosophy. Secondly, to invite ...
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    47,92 €

  • Hegel and Speculative Realism
    Charles William Johns
    Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives. Firstly, to assess the speculative realist formulations of the real regarding the ’withdrawn’ object, radical contingency, the absolute register of extinction, and the current interest in ’powers philosophy’, with special attention to their possible relation to the absolute scope of Hegelian philosophy. Secondly, to invite ...
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    156,70 €

  • Believing Unity
    Anonymous / Leo Greenwood
    Believing UnityDiscovering the Oneness of Mind, Matter and ConsciousnessSecond EditionBelieving Unity takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey through the deepest and most profound questions humanity has ever asked. The clear logic and insightful observations throughout offer a compelling alternative to traditional duality-based views of reality, plunging the reader into a per...
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    13,90 €

  • Eschatological Optimism
    Daria Platonova Dugina / Jafe Arnold
    In the Myth of the Cave as told in Plato’s Republic, a prisoner of the cave of illusions escapes and comes to know the true reality of the outside world and the heavens above, only to realize that he must make a return descent to enlighten his fellow humans - at the risk of sorrow and even death. Socrates insists that the true philosopher and just statesman does not rest conten...
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    46,91 €

  • Eschatological Optimism
    Daria Platonova Dugina / Jafe Arnold
    In the Myth of the Cave as told in Plato’s Republic, a prisoner of the cave of illusions escapes and comes to know the true reality of the outside world and the heavens above, only to realize that he must make a return descent to enlighten his fellow humans - at the risk of sorrow and even death. Socrates insists that the true philosopher and just statesman does not rest conten...
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    37,81 €

  • Plato’s Prisoners
    Silvia Paddock / Thomas J. Buervenich
    Embark on an intriguing journey through the realms of physics, neuroscience, and philosophy with "Plato’s Prisoners." In this thought-provoking narrative, you will find yourself immersed in a legal case involving humans and artificially intelligent machines, prompting you to challenge the conventional view of a purely physical universe. Inspired by modern science and drawing up...
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    19,09 €

  • Do We Have a Soul?
    Aaron Segal / Eric T. Olson
    Are we made entirely of matter, like sticks and stones? Or do we have a soul--a nonphysical entity--where our mental lives take place? The authors Eric T. Olson and Aaron Segal begin this accessible and wide ranging debate by looking at the often-overlooked question of whether we appear in ordinary experience to be material things. ...
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    48,83 €

  • This Side of Philosophy
    Stephen Gingerich
    Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance, modern writers from Spain have devoted themselves to exploring the ...
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    42,94 €

  • Evolutionary Emergence of Purposive Goals and Values
    Donald A. Crosby
    Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.Where do the purposes, values, and existential meanings of the world come from? For many, they are conferred on the world and on humans within the world by a supernatural, transcendent, personal divine creator ...
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    122,14 €

  • Travels Through Time
    Mike Ricksecker
    Begin your journey into the Connected Universe with Travels Through Time, an examination of the nature of time, dimensions, and the possibilities of real time travel. In an easy-to-follow and conversational manner, researcher Mike Ricksecker formally introduces his Stacked Time Theory with an exploration of the fabric of the cosmos, starting with ancient symbolism and alchemy u...
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    14,58 €

  • I Have Been Moved (2nd Edition)
    Yacov Mitchenko
    Are you looking for a poet who thinks that it’s possible to be lucid yet deep? Would you welcome verse that’s NOT mired in political correctness or identity politics? A poetry that’s not tethered to any particular movement? Would you like to read poetry in which spellbinding rhythms, lapidary language, fresh metaphors/associations, and interesting ideas are abundantly present? ...
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    25,19 €

  • Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality
    Valia Allori
    This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics. These questions have been long-standing and are of continued interest to researchers and graduate students working in physics, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. It features contributions from a diverse set of researchers, ranging from senior scholars to junior aca...
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    170,10 €

  • The Transcendence of Celeste Kelly
    Peter Smith
    When Celeste Kelly, a brilliant but troubled young physicist from Australia, attempts to find the hidden secrets shared within the many worlds theory, the uncertainty principle and string theory, Bob, a being from another dimension, materialises to expand her research, hoping that she will help steer humanity to a new level of consciousness.  Inspired by their vision, she takes...
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    18,42 €

  • Descartes
    David Cunning
    An outstanding introduction to one of the greatest of Western philosophers. Including a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is essential reading for anyone studying Descartes and the history of modern philosophy. ...
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    240,15 €

  • Descartes
    David Cunning
    An outstanding introduction to one of the greatest of Western philosophers. Including a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is essential reading for anyone studying Descartes and the history of modern philosophy. ...
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    46,68 €

  • STUDIES IN PESSIMISM
    Arthur Schopenhauer / T. Bailey Saunders
    ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERSTUDIES IN PESSIMISM: ESSAYS A collection of essays from one of the great philosophers of the modern era, Arthur Schopenhauer. The German thinker contemplates subjects such as psychology, immortality, vanity, suffering, education, women, and suicide.Arthur Schopenhauer is an entertaining author to read, easy to understand, with a sly, dry wit. No need for foo...
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    15,98 €

  • The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics
    Ralph Stefan Weir
    This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. ...
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    241,26 €

  • Philosophical Turns
    Robert Wess
    Philosophical Turns is a tour de force, a sophisticated and erudite book that not only captures the cognitive and emotive rhythms of the contemporary philosophical conversation surrounding speculative realism but also becomes a distinctive voice within that conversation. A reviewer can but adumbrate and applaud the density, complexity, and richness of the arguments Robert Wess ...
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    88,97 €

  • Noncognitivism in Ethics
    Mark Schroeder
    This 2nd edition has been revised and updated throughout. Schroeder makes even the most difficult material accessible by offering crucial background along the way. Also included are exercises at the end of each chapter, chapter summaries, and a glossary of technical terms. Essential reading for all students of ethics and metaethics. ...
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    66,29 €

  • Noncognitivism in Ethics
    Mark Schroeder
    This 2nd edition has been revised and updated throughout. Schroeder makes even the most difficult material accessible by offering crucial background along the way. Also included are exercises at the end of each chapter, chapter summaries, and a glossary of technical terms. Essential reading for all students of ethics and metaethics. ...
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    240,78 €

  • Philosophical Turns
    Robert Wess
    Philosophical Turns is a tour de force, a sophisticated and erudite book that not only captures the cognitive and emotive rhythms of the contemporary philosophical conversation surrounding speculative realism but also becomes a distinctive voice within that conversation. A reviewer can but adumbrate and applaud the density, complexity, and richness of the arguments Robert Wess ...
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    44,60 €

  • Timaeus
    Plato
    Timaeus is one of Plato’s dialogues and a philosophy classic, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward reasoning on the possible nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias.Participants in the dialogue include Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias. Some scholars b...
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    15,48 €

  • Science and Myth
    Wolfgang Smith
    Unrecognized and unacknowledged as the fact may be, science too has its mythology. Starting with a profound clarification of this basic issue, Wolfgang Smith goes on to explain the metaphysical significance of scientific findings relating to visual perception, the relation of neurons to mind, and much else, leading to the central chapter on Stephen Hawking’s bestselling book, T...
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    15,80 €

  • Science and Myth
    Wolfgang Smith
    Unrecognized and unacknowledged as the fact may be, science too has its mythology. Starting with a profound clarification of this basic issue, Wolfgang Smith goes on to explain the metaphysical significance of scientific findings relating to visual perception, the relation of neurons to mind, and much else, leading to the central chapter on Stephen Hawking’s bestselling book, T...
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    27,97 €

  • A New Renaissance
    A New Renaissance diagnoses the urgent need for cultural change and renewal in today’s period of crisis in philosophy, science, and society - now even more pressing than when this volume was first published. Some six hundred years ago, the Florentine Renaissance took a huge leap forward into realism, rationality, and self-awareness. It was born from the waning authority of medi...
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    23,44 €

  • What Have I Forgotten?
    Valentina Osinski
    Singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist NYMPHYA is a Cinematic Art Pop artist who creates modern music for the ancient and mystical in you. This metaphysical, musical memoir traces the journey through the 7 stages of Spiritual Alchemy and the creative process of her songwriting, uncovering the esoteric messages of the Emerald Tablet behind the music in this companion book to he...
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    38,22 €

  • Process Mysticism
    Daniel A. Dombrowski
    Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.Process Mysticism uses the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore mystical religious experiences. The aim is not so much to demonstrate that such experiences are true or veridical as it is to understand, in a William Jamesian fashion, ...
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    42,15 €