Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz

Contemporary Materialism..

Providing the reader with first-hand acquaintance of the religious philosophies of such classic writers as Aquinas and Hume, Hughes goes on to discuss..

How do I know whether there are minds besides my own? This accessible introduction provides an historical overview, and an investigation of the views ..

Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativis..

Nihilism is the logic of unmaking of things. This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of West..

This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism t..

Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus are the p..

Harold Noonan introduces and assesses Kripke's most famous work, Naming and Necessity, placing it in context and explaining its significant contributi..

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an ..

Groff's argument runs counter to a familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral ..

This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation...