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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this volume, the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle of Sufficient Reason. more...
Rethinking the Ontological Argument
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 34.00In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. His argument avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static. more...
Time and Mind
BRILL 2005; US$ 142.00This book deals with the history of the problem whether or not time can fully exist without the mind. This has been a vital issue in the philosophy of time, with intriguing arguments and solutions, from Aristotle to the present. more...
Time in Contemporary Intellectual Thought
Elsevier Science 1999; US$ 155.00In this book, fifteen authors from a wide spectrum of disciplines (ranging from the natural sciences to the arts) offer assessments of the way time enters their work, the definition and uses of time that have proved most productive or problematic, and the lessons their subjects can offer for our understanding of time beyond the classroom and laboratory... more...
Capital Times
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 90.00Capital Times analyzes the social and political processes involved in conceptions of time in ancient and medieval tradition and sets them in the context of contemporary political and philosophical debates centering on the thought of Kant and Marx. Witty and learned, Alliez?s ambitious work forces us to reevaluate the philosophical and historical status... more...
God, Chance and Purpose
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 25.00The thesis of this book is that chance is an integral part of God's creation. more...
The Moment
Liverpool University Press 2001; US$ 70.00Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasising the moment. The moment demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition, rupture and continuity. This collection addresses the key questions posed by the moment, considering writers such... more...
Picturing Tropical Nature
Reaktion Books 2001; US$ 44.00Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent historic misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. more...
Realism Regained
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 109.99In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism. In doing so, Koons develops an elegant metaphysical system that accounts for such phenomena as information, mental representation, our knowledge of logic, mathematics and science, the structure of spacetime, the identity of physical objects, and... more...
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
Oxford University Press, USA 1997; US$ 18.99Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price... more...









