Filosofi: metafysik & ontologi

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, …

Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account …

Världen som vilja och föreställning är Arthur Schopenhauers stora, filosofiska livsverk. Hans filosofi erbjuder en världsåskådning, ett sätt att betrakta tillvaron i dess helhet, …

What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons, but what of the more intangible elements, such as …

I Vad är metafysik? kretsar Martin Heideggers tänkande kring intet, något som människan blir varse i ångesten. I denna erfarenhet förlorar det varande sin självklarhet, det ter sig …

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since …

Laws of nature have long puzzled philosophers. What distinguishes laws from facts about the world that do not rise to the level of laws? How can laws be contingent and nevertheless …

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's …

Gödel's modal ontological argument is the centrepiece of an extensive examination of intensional logic. A reader interested in (modal) type theory can safelyskip ontological …