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The Architectonic of Philosophy The Architectonic of Philosophy Leslie Kavanaugh "Whereas the history of philosophy defines metaphysics as asking the question 'What is Being?'; here is asked 'Where is Being?' What is to be analyzed is indeed part of the tradition of metaphysics t… OL10099501W
Swords in the Mist Swords in the Mist Fritz Leiber "Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday TimesDrawing themes from Shakes… OL101934W
Etre et le néant Etre et le néant Jean-Paul Sartre missing pages xiv and xv OL1161325W
Creatura intellecta: die Ideen und Possibilien bei Duns Scotus mit Ausblick auf Franz von Mayronis,… Creatura intellecta: die Ideen und Possibilien bei Duns Scotus mit Ausblick auf Franz von Mayronis,… Tobias Hoffmann The most controversial aspect of the interpretation of Scotus’s modal theory concerns the question of whether things are possible because God knows them to be possible, or whether they are possible i… OL13604045W
De hominis dignitate De hominis dignitate Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,Patricia Mari-Fabre The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It has been ca… OL1456989W
Osnovy sinkretiki Osnovy sinkretiki S. G. Fedosin The third book of Fedosin S.G. - "Osnovy sinkretiki: filosofiia nositelei" ("Fundamentals of Syncretiсs. Philosophy of Carriers", Moskva: Editorial URSS, 2003, 464 pages, 28 tables, 11 illustrations,… OL15304483W
Phenomenology Phenomenology Avi Sion Phenomenology is the study of appearance as such. It is a branch of both Ontology and Epistemology, since appearing is being known. By an ‘appearance’ is meant any existent which impinges on consciou… OL15401719W
Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing Ian Bogost A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another. Humanity has sat at the center of philosoph… OL16498985W
Plato's account of falsehood Plato's account of falsehood Crivelli, Paolo Dr "Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe fals… OL16529094W
Space, time, & stuff Space, time, & stuff Frank Arntzenius "Space, Time, and Stuff is an attempt to show that physics is geometry: that the fundamental structure of the physical world is purely geometrical structure. Along the way, he examines some non-stand… OL16589197W
The Praxis of Alain Badiou The Praxis of Alain Badiou Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens (eds.) Following the publication of his magnum opus L’être et l’événement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France’s greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has relea… OL16610268W
The visible and the invisible The visible and the invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty [This book] contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book [the author] was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, a… OL16966154W
Ontological terror Ontological terror Calvin L. Warren,Calvin L. Warren The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author use… OL17893080W
The FORA Framework The FORA Framework Edy Portmann Online reputation management deals with monitoring and influencing the online record of a person, an organization or a product. The Social Web offers increasingly simple ways to publish and dissemina… OL19850763W
Thought, Language, and Ontology Thought, Language, and Ontology Francesco Orilia The late Hector-Neri Castañeda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of Noûs, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributi… OL19907008W
Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory Burhanuddin Baki "Alain Badiou's Being and Event continues to impact philosophical investigations into the question of Being. By exploring the central role set theory plays in this influential work, Burhanuddin Baki … OL20478145W
Finite and infinite games Finite and infinite games James Carse,James P. Carse Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield — games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Inf… OL2669550W
From Within From Within Robert Chaffee Where do we find a foundation for values in a post-christian world? Life itself depends on balance. This work attempts to put that search into a poetic and somewhat liturgical form as a frame… OL2772709W
The person in the Orthodox tradition The person in the Orthodox tradition Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos The book “The Person in the Orthodox Tradition”, which was awarded the Athens Academy Prize and has been translated into other languages, is concerned with the subject of the person, an issue that is… OL766997W
Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology (Theory and Decis… Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology (Theory and Decis… Savas L. Tsohatzidis This book includes ten original essays that critically examine central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society, as well as a new essay by Searle that summarizes and further develops his work in t… OL8090161W
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