An interpretation and a critical assessment of Friederich Nietzsche's influential work on the traditionally central questions of philosophy concerning the possibility of knowledge and the nature of reality. Dr Poellner draws upon not only Nietzsche's published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished.
Offers a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. In this title, one of the many interesting facts that emerge is that vision appeared long before there was any brain of significance. Perception therefore had to be direct awareness of forms, patterning, smells, and so on.
Offers helpful explanations to those discouraged in the struggle to decipher what philosophers are really up to.
Explores some of the major topics in metaphysics, such as essence, existence, substance, purpose, space, time, mind, causality, God, freedom, and the possibilities of immortality. An excellent companion to metaphysical studies .
Takes a look at the metaphysics and logic of possibility and reality, and illuminates them from a variety of perspectives. This collection features topics which include the history of philosophy as well as the semantics of possible worlds; logic, mathematics and computer science as well as literature and the media.
Includes: The Ontological Status of Truthmakers. An Alternative to Tactarianism and Metaphysical Anti-Realism; Gegenstande in der Zeit; Statues and there Constituens. Whether Constitution is Identity; Eigenschaften von Komplexen. Ein Beitrag zur angewandten Ontologie; Is Salta's Individuation of Intensional Entities Circular? and more.