Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Books

This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science...

Why are we here on planet earth? It is the destiny of all creation to reach a condition of universal oneness with the creator continually growing toward that common ideal. The cycle of change every where about him and he turns to evolution, but while he...

Superficially, Wittgenstein and Heidegger seem worlds apart: they worked in different philosophical traditions, seemed mostly ignorant of one another's work, and Wittgenstein's terse aphorisms in plain language could not be farther stylistically...

Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on...

An examination of the unverifiability of Muhammadism (and other ancient text based religions) and its incompatibility with the 21st Century awareness of our innate yearning for loving harmony with ourselves and the world around us.

Shankara said awakening could only be achieved through direct experience. This is the story of the author's first four decades towards attaining that supreme state through meditation, starting at an uncommonly young age in a small logging and fishing...

This handbook is a pathway towards a lifetime of self satisfaction and realization that you're the only one who has anycontrol over you.Guiding you towards mastery of self and a greater understanding of life without the need to manipulate others to get...

"Re-examine all you have been told.Dismiss what insults your soul." - Walt WhitmanTania Kiaizadeh's debut book, The Joy of Spirit: Spiritual Living to Discover Wonderful You, is a prescriptive non-fiction. These celestial teachings are carefully crafted...

Now unveiled, a set of advanced techniques and meditations to achieve union with one's higher-self and the Divine. Using this book, you will: Discover what is subtle energy, also known as prana, ki or chi - Create energy diamonds, that is, diamonds made...

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the "founder of pragmatism" and one of the most important and original American philosophers. Peirce made significant contributions to the...

In Ecological Ethics and the Human Soul: Aquinas, Whitehead, and the Metaphysics of Value, Francisco J. Benzoni addresses the pervasive and destructive view that there is a moral gulf between human beings and other creatures. Thomas Aquinas, whose...

A science philosophy piece which addresses the age old question does God Exist? The "Gloves are off" as an Atheist and Theist boxer are imagined to enter the ring in a combative debate to promote their world-view. Science, reason and logical...

The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is...

This volume focuses on contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion through an engagement with Eleonore Stump's seminal work in the field. Topics covered include: the metaphysics of the divine nature (e.g., divine simplicity and eternity); the...

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 to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics.

With its bold and controversial argument, The Scotch Metaphysics will be of essential interest to any serious scholar of eighteenth century philosophy.

Plotinus (204/5-270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although...

This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus' Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus' exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used...

We live in a world where the 5 senses are established fact: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. But sensing and hearing things with the mind are a subject less talked about. Telepathy is real! The sixth sense exists! I have the science of it in this...

According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality. These ideas challenge the core not only...

This book describes a new theory of the birth of the Universe, from nothing (Big Bang) to virtual solidity (mass) in seven steps, depicted like a lotus flower.Mass is described as a vibrating string, containing instructions to facilitate atomic entities...

Secret Mental Powers: Miracle of Mind MagicHow to energize your mental dynamo to work miracles for you!Frank Young has done a lot of research in his field of study and was truly ahead of his time. Many books delve into the sub-conscious mind and how it...

When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested...

The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques Maritain Center, former director of the Medieval...

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical and mathematical writings and an...

Nominalism, which has its origins in the Middle Ages and continues into the Twenty-First Century, is the doctrine that there are no universals. This book is unique in bringing together essays on the history of nominalism and essays that present a...

If controversial subjects are not your cup of tea, read no further and put this book down right now because what this work has to offer is revolutionary in the extreme.  God Star sets out to show that the sky that ancient man remembers was...

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world...

Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological...

IN A CATEGORY ALL ITS OWN. What doesn't Botticelli's Hollee accomplish? While above all a testament of one soul of light's undying love for another, this book revives Shakespeare's sonnet form, expresses the power of a Divine Love which...

Translated into English for the very first time, the Hermetic Recreations is a uniquely lucid masterwork of French Hermetic philosophy. Set down in an anonymous hand at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, it provides critical insights into the operative...

Drawing on traditions of Jewish biblical commentary, the author employs the Creation account in Genesis to show how understanding God's creativity can give us courage to go on when we contemplate a future of continued trials and failures, because we can...

In Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Thomas Hibbs recovers the notion of practice to develop a more descriptive account of human action and knowing, grounded in the venerable vocabulary of virtue and vice. Drawing on Aquinas, who believed that...

Kirkus DiscoveriesAn ode-and even a bit of a passport-to living a mindful life.D'Angelo counsels that we take a moment to reflect upon ourselves, shake off inhibitions, give received opinions a pass and take a breath. A deep breath, a whole chorus of...

Following the hypothesis proffered in God Star, the prequel to this work, Flare Star sets out to show that Earth's last Ice Age came suddenly to an end due to the cosmic catastrophe that was caused by the proto-Saturnian system's entry into the...

Astrophysicists have noted various problems with the formation of planets out of circumstellar disks, but mainstream scientists continue to promulgate such creations as if the problems do not exist. The derivation of terrestrial life required a much...

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction, fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy...

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad's changing views of time and in so doing  clarify the central disputes in the philosophy of time, explicate the various positions Broad took regarding them,...

Freedom and Tradition in Hegel stands at the intersection of three vital currents in contemporary ethics: debates over philosophical anthropology and its significance for ethics, reevaluations of tradition and modernity, and a resurgence of interest in...

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time.The lectures were presented during the 1985-86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall...

Le style en action demande une compréhension efficace et puissante d'une certaine manière d'être valant la peine d'être vécue. C'est lorsque celle-ci est perçue comme telle par une masse et reproduite ainsi par la suite qu'elle viendra à s'instituer. Dès...

A spirit guide.Love is the answer.Love is the be-all.Don't be afraid.I am here to help you.These are a few of the words I had written down the morning after a trusted medium told me to buy a notebook and write down the very first thing that came to me...