This edited volume presents a general account of the concept of mental power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described, and conceived the human agent...Daugiau...
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198875314)
The idea that something can be present at every place has engendered much discussion both in the past and at present. This Handbook explores the notion of omnipresence beyond its usual context as a divine attribute, seeking to understand the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Apr-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198897088)
The text and translation of In Hexaemeron, an important work by early Christian thinker Gregory of Nyssa, is accompanied by seven essays authored by international specialists, offering complementary pathways into understanding Gregorys cosm...Daugiau...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the partswhole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereo...Daugiau...
This collection of new essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the reception of classical Greek ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and will interest scholars and students in the fields of philosophy, classics, patristic theology, socia...Daugiau...
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Dec-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009475730)
This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers theorised about properties while engaged in dialogue with each other. It outlines Aristotles sophisticated account of the oneness of a substance, and argues that it was not hylomorphic....Daugiau...
This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each othe...Daugiau...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereo...Daugiau...
This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature. Which conception of laws of nature best fits with how we con...Daugiau...
This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature. Which conception of laws of nature best fits with how we con...Daugiau...
This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. The book introduces a fresh perspective on...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jun-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108833691)
There are few areas in which the chasm separating pagan and Christian ethics is deeper than that of sexuality. Here I wish to examine this fundamental shift of thought from the standpoint of the ontology of sexual difference. Is the difference betwe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198831501)
Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this ti...Daugiau...
The first integrated history of this important topic, this book explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. Figures such as Numeniu...Daugiau...
This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; d...Daugiau...
This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198826422)
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of N...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Jul-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107181212)
The first integrated history of this important topic, this book explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. Figures such as Numeniu...Daugiau...
