Metaphysics

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Nihilism and Metaphysics

An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.

Mothership Connections

Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.

The Orders of Nature

A systematic theory of naturalism, bridging metaphysics and the science of complexity and emergence.

Weak Thought

Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.

Essential Difference

Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.

The Other Plato

Collected writings on Plato’s unwritten teachings.

Modes of Learning

By George Allan
Subjects: Education

A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.

Aristotle's Concept of Chance

The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance.

Whitehead's Philosophy

Demonstrates myriad points of connection between Whitehead's philosophy and mainstream philosophical traditions.

The William Desmond Reader

Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

Creative Experiencing

A vigorous and wide-ranging defense of Hartshorne’s “neoclassical metaphysics” of creative freedom.

Existence and the Good

Argues that morals and politics require on a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics.

Philosophical Dialectics

A study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing a clear view of the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry.

Troubling Play

By Kelsey Wood
Subjects: Philosophy

This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.

The Active Life

A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.

Petrified Intelligence

A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature.

Convergence amidst Difference

Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.

Panpsychism

Edited by D. S. Clarke
Introduction by D. S. Clarke
Subjects: Philosophy

An anthology of readings in panpsychism, spanning two millennia.

What Happens to Us When We Think

By Michael Gelven
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores the transformation humans undergo when they do metaphysics.

Function, Selection, and Design

A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology.

Metaphysics

An edited transcript of the great Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics, given at Harvard in 1915-1916.

Kierkegaard and the Concept of Revelation

Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Kierkegaard's view of Christian revelation and demonstrates the central importance of that concept for understanding the development of his religious philosophy.

Perplexity and Ultimacy

Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy--the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.

Being and the Between

This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.

The Path of Archaic Thinking

This is the first anthology of commentary on Sallis that shows what is genuinely unique in his thought: the transformative relation of reason and imagination in thinking "after Heidegger."