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Books about metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.
The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the fundamental categories of human ...
For example his difficult 1932 book Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm [40] provides a major formulation of the idea: this ever-greater God "explodes the limits of every metaphysics as such." [k] Theologian John Milbank has called this book "one of the great masterworks of twentieth-century theology and ...
For Martin Heidegger, ontotheology took on quite a different meaning; for him, ontotheology is fundamentally the same as all metaphysics of presence.This he argues in Being and Time, his later essay on "The End of Metaphysics", in his Introduction of 1949 to his Was ist Metaphysik?, and in his most systematic treatment of the problem of ontotheology, Identity and Difference, (1957).
In formal logic, the statement "If today is Saturday, then 1+1=2" is true. However, '1+1=2' is true regardless of the content of the antecedent; a causal or meaningful relation is not required. The statement as a whole must be true, because 1+1=2 cannot be false. (If it could, then on a given Saturday, so could the statement).
Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, 1686; Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics, 1688; John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689; John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689; Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1690; Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, 1704 ...
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (German: Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik) is a 1929 book about Immanuel Kant by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. It is often referred to by Heidegger as simply the Kantbuch (Kantbook). This book was published as volume 3 of the Gesamtausgabe. The book is dedicated to the memory of Max Scheler.
In his first book, Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (1994), Maudlin explains Bell's Theorem and the tension between violations of Bell's inequality and relativity. In Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles (2004), Maudlin presents a new resolution to the "Liar Paradox" (for example, the sentence "This sentence is false") and other semantic paradoxes that requires a modification of classical ...