Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality. The word "metaphysics" comes from two Greek words that, together, literally mean "after or behind or among [the study of] the natural". It has been suggested that the term might have been coined by a first century CE editor who assembled various small selections of Aristotle’s works into the treatise we now know by the name Metaphysics (ta meta ta physika, 'after the Physics ', another of Aristotle's works).Metaphysics studies questions …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English
With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s …
systematic theology, the refusal of ecstatic metaphysics, questionable Plato scholarship, the hegemony … gatherings in his16 numinous seditions politico-metaphysics are “ghostly” ontologies. Harrison, who writes …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 17 November 2023 English
Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s …
dimension of otherness. It is in the register of metaphysics, transcendence, and grand representa- tions. …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English
While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear …
notions of assemblage (Puar) and performative metaphysics (Barad) as modes of privileging organization …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 September 2023 English
Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction …
“The animal out of the desert”: The Nomadic Metaphysics of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion … argues that “Ondaatje’s strategy of ‘nomadic metaphysics’ obscures the mate- rial history of, and therefore … rooted identity” and to show that the “‘nomadic metaphysics’” informing the novel actually “obscures the … them as other. Mason’s analysis of nomadic metaphysics also helps us to understand Ondaatje’s deprivileging …
JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 27 July 2023 English
It’s more difficult for the lecturer to understand and respond to the perspectives and interests in the room and more difficult to have a free-flowing question and answer session. [...] …
include meta-ethics and the metaphysics of persons, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, the philosophy of … philosophical Contact hours per week: 3-0-0 to issues in metaphysics and epistemology. views of art and literature … Philosophy 1000 PHILOSOPHY 1000 to issues in metaphysics and epistemology. Introduction to Philosophy … truth, knowledge, humanity's ultimate questions. Metaphysics skepticism, realism and anti-realism, and considers …
Childcare Resource and Research Unit · 26 June 2023 English
The strategy will be analyzed in this chapter as a package because the combination of instruments reflects the Conservative market-based approach to social policy which leaves the provision of services …
neither an exercise in historical analysis nor metaphysics to examine the proposed 1988 Canada Child Care …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of …
Epistemologies are traditionally allied with metaphysics: views about what exists, what there is to be … if you let either multiculturalism ’r modern metaphysics convince ya you (or you-’n-yr-gang) are the …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 March 2023 English
The French Revolution swept away the Old Regime along with many of its ideas about epistemology, history, society, and politics. In the intellectual ferment that followed, debates about religion figured …
religion. The Idéologues sought both to recast metaphysics as a scientific discipline through a sensationalist … to recast metaphysics as a scientific discipline and to relegate theological metaphysics to the pre-scientific … to language on the grounds that theological metaphysics receives powerful support from words that do … private and public morality.”9 Religion’s false metaphysics and the defective morality that follows from … with a healthy metaphysics and a rationally based system of morality. A healthy metaphysics, based on sensationalist …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
James Tully is one of the world’s most influential political philosophers at work today. Over the past thirty years – first with Strange Multiplicity (1995), and more fully with Public …
to remain largely agnostic with regard to the metaphysics of morals and to defend a more modest form of …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
In the “post-truth” era, the question of how people perceive things to be real, even when they are not based in fact, preoccupies us. Lessons learned in the theatre – …
that is so thoroughly entrenched in Western metaphysics? Marvin Carl- son writes in his study of theatre’s … favouring of the real is now entrenched in Western metaphysics in such a way that “the con- cept of appearance …
