The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

Author: Michael J. Loux
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199284221
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 740

Book Description
Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

Author: Craig Callender
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199298203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
This is the first comprehensive book on the philosophy of time. Leading philosophers discuss the metaphysics of time, our experience and representation of time, the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially quantum mechanics and relativity theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind

Author: Brian McLaughlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199262616
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 833

Book Description
This is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the state of the art in philosophy of mind, a flourishing area of research. An outstanding team of contributors offer 45 new critical surveys of a wide range of topics.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199668779
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 769

Book Description
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience.

The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy

Author: Jay L. Garfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019532899X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
This volume provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. Sections on Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, East Asian philosophy, African philosophy, and trends in global philosophy are all edited by an expert.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

Author: Ben Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190271450
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

Author: Frank Jackson
Publisher: OUP UK
ISBN: 0199234760
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 918

Book Description
A guide to today's most exciting research in academic philosophy with more than 30 distinguished scholars to contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

Author: Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019955613X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610

Book Description
A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. They cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience

Author: John Bickle
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195304780
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
This title is a collection of interdisciplinary research from contributors including both philosophers and neuroscientists. Topics covered include the neurobiology of learning and memory perception and sensation, neurocomputational modelling neuroanatomy, neuroethics, and neurology and clinical neuropsychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas

Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195326091
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 606

Book Description
This volume presents an introduction to Aquinas and a guide to his thinking on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and the historical context of his thought. The subsequent sections address topics that Aquinas himself discussed. The final sections of the volume address the development of Aquinas's thought and its historical influence.