Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics - including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness - and deploys the tech…
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Provides a broad survey of many of these views, these Images of time, covering historical, cultural, philosophical, biological, mathematical and physical Images of time, including classical and quantum mechanics, special and general relativity and cosmology.
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present con…
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic - at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. …
Platonic legacies
by Sallis, John
fromSUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
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What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what…
