Inductive Metaphysics justifies metaphysical principles by inductive or abductive inferences from empirical evidence, rather than by purely logico-conceptual considerations. This is the first volume to provide a representative picture of current r...Daugiau...
This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceitythat primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. The author defends a view on which haecceities have objects that instantiate them as con...Daugiau...
This book develops a new metaphysical framework in which time is motion through a higher dimension. In other words, time literally flows. It breaks through the long debate about time flow and temporal experience in metaphysics by offering an entirel...Daugiau...
This book introduces a novel hylomorphic theory of material objects, according to which material objects are understood as comprised or composed of both matter and activity, where activity plays the role of form. This theory, hyloenergeism, better...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 book provides an exhaustive overview of the ontology of relations. Moreover, it offers a detailed defense of the existence of irreducible relations in the universe and shows that entities such as powers should be better thought of as relation...Daugiau...
The chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and...Daugiau...
This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music. Interest in questions about the nature of music groups is growing. Since peopl...Daugiau...
This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two type...Daugiau...
This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerfu...Daugiau...
This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities. The author uses the theory developed to address three major topics in the metaphysics of concreta: fundamentality, persistence over time, and phenomenal consciousness. Thi...Daugiau...
This volume collects fifteen original essays on E.J. Lowes work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowes insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics. This volume collects fifteen original essays on E. J. Lowes w...Daugiau...
This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity-that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. The book begins by exploring different conceptions of haecceity throughout history. The...Daugiau...
This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The authors original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexamination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of ph...Daugiau...
This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of event...Daugiau...
The self is a perennial topic in philosophy, and its existence has been both defended and contested by philosophers including Descartes and Hume. This radical philosophical theory of the self will be of interest to those working on the philosophy...Daugiau...
This book explores the relationship between an Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature that cuts across interdisciplinary boundaries. It features essays by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotel...Daugiau...
This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such things as death, regret, grief, and the meaning of life.The book argues that rationalism is the...Daugiau...
