The Primacy Of Metaphysics

Author : Christopher Peacocke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192572504
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Metaphysics written by Christopher Peacocke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics and the theory of meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics, how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.

Author : C. D. C. Reeve
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840141
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Substantial Knowledge written by C. D. C. Reeve and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, C. D. C. Reeve uses a fundamental problem--the Primacy Dilemma--to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way. At a time when Aristotle is most often studied piecemeal, Reeve attempts to see him both in detail and as a whole, so that it is from detailed analysis of hundreds of particular passages, drawn from dozens of Aristotelian treatises, and translated in full that his overall picture of Aristotle emerges. Primarily a book for philosophers and advanced students with an interest in the fundamental problems with which Aristotle is grappling, Substantial Knowledge's clear, non-technical and engaging style will appeal to any reader eager to explore Aristotle’s difficult but extraordinarily rewarding thought.

Author : Dominic Banez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990738633
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Existence in Thomas Aquinas written by Dominic Banez and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A metaphysical treatise on existence.

Author : Joseph Thomas Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Metaphysics ... written by Joseph Thomas Casey and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ilia Delio
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506484387
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Love written by Ilia Delio and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of anxiety where reason is deified, what is the role of love? This short book centralizes love as the core reality of all cosmic life. From the cosmological to the theological dimensions of existence, love is shown to be the irresistible force of attraction that leads straight into the heart of God. The book is divided into three short chapters based on a metaphysics of love: we are born out of divine love, we exist in love, and we are oriented toward the fullness of love. In a world of evolutionary convergence and global consciousness, love may be the singular ethic that binds us together, heals our wounds and draws us into a new unity of planetary life. In the My Theology series, the world’s leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs in concise, pocket-sized books.

Author : Professor William A Dembski
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472437861
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being as Communion written by Professor William A Dembski and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Being as Communion philosopher and mathematician William Dembski provides a non-technical overview of his work on information. Dembski attempts to make good on the promise of John Wheeler, Paul Davies, and others that information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of reality. With profound implications for theology and metaphysics, Being as Communion develops a relational ontology that is at once congenial to science and open to teleology in nature.

Author : Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199253080
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Substance written by Michael Vernon Wedin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are Categories and the central books of Metaphysics. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.

Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230165
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Ockham on Metaphysics written by Jenny Pelletier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In William Ockham on Metaphysics, Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is the science that studies all beings and their most general properties. Ockham was considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysics. Recent scholarship tends to focus on regional metaphysical issues (e.g. universals, relations), logic or semantics, theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics as such that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137703
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.

Author : Nicholas Georgalis
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of the Subjective written by Nicholas Georgalis and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevertheless, this expanded methodology makes possible an objective understanding of the subjective."--Jacket.