This volume contains a close translation, suitable for students without a knowledge of Greek, of the seventh and eighth books of Aristotle'sMetaphysics, together with a thorough and careful philosophi
F. H. Bradley was the greatest of the British Idealists, but for much of this century his views have been neglected, primarily as a result of the severe criticism to which they were subjected by Russe
The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But what comes after the West? What comes after
The books translated in this volume are fourth, fifth, and sixth in the traditional ordering of Aristotle'sMetaphysics. The nature and metaphysics are discussed in G and E. A subtle examination of the
This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The auth
This book has been written from the conviction that general statements about the philosophical position taken by Theophrastus in this small, but extremely difficult, treatise can only be made on the b
Subtitled Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in: An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics , challenges such staid old ideas as infinity and whole numbers to propose an entirely new accoun
Written simply yet comprehensively, Molnar's analysis of the history of philosophy and false mysticism leads him to conclude that a return to a modern realism will save the philosophical enterprise fr
"...an attractive alternative to Victor Lowe's Understanding Whitehead, Ivor Leclerc's Whitehead's Metaphysics, and Donald Sherburne's A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality....Recommended for advan
Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism t
Are the characteristics and relationships among spatio-temporal entities "real" or are they simply conventional terms that note similarities among things in the world but lack any reality of their own
This classic study on the evolution of the human mind is as valuable today as when first published in 1901. Dr. Bucke makes the case that at intervals throughout history certain individuals have appea
Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of being in general rather than specifically of this or
Bernard Lonergan (1904-'984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natur
The intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical tradition that includes Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas; but surprisingly, t
In this challenging study in metaphilosophy Douglas Browning makes a case for viewing ontology as a legitimate and viable philosophical pursuit. Beginning with a sustained analysis of the process of a
