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1	Problems from Locke more books like this by John L MacKie add to wishlist J. L. Mackie selects for critical discussion six related topics which are prominent in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: the distinction between primary and secondary qualities; representative theories of perception; substance, real essence, and nominal essence; abstract ideas, universals, and the meaning of general terms; ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity more books like this by Ernst Cassirer add to wishlist Two books bound together. Concepts of number, space, non-Euclidian geometry, Einstein's relativity, similar material. see all copies from $8.56! new only from $34.79! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Substance and Separation in Aristotle more books like this by Lynne Spellman add to wishlist This book is a study of Aristotle's metaphysics in which the central argument is that Aristotle's views on substance are a direct response to Plato's Theory of Forms. The claim is that Aristotle believes that many of Plato's views are tenable once one has rejected Plato's notion of separation. There have been many recent books on Aristotle's ... see all copies from $21.95! new only from $27.34! \| first editions \| SVS
4	On Clear and Confused Ideas: An Essay about Substance Concepts more books like this by Ruth Garrett Millikan, Ernest Sosa (Editor), Jonathan Dancy (Editor) add to wishlist A contribution to analytic discussions concerning epistemology, Millikan (University of Connecticut) explores how empirical concepts function and are acquired, and how they have been perceived in the development of analytic philosophy. see all copies from $32.01! new only from $32.01! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Question of Existence more books like this by David Butler, Amy Butler (Illustrator) add to wishlist Presented in the familiar format of the board book, this ironic bent on childhood primers will make a fantastic and thoughtful gift for that expressive thinker, student, scholar or armchair philosopher seeking inspiration in their day-to-day lives see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
6	Words Without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity more books like this by Henry Laycock add to wishlist A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of two main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for stuff like air and water. With discrete objects, we may always ask 'how many?', but ... see all copies from $20.92! new only from $70.58! \| first editions
7	Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics more books like this by C D C Reeve add to wishlist In this groundbreaking work, C D C Reeve uses a fundamental problem -- the Primacy Dilemma -- to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way. At a time when Aristotle is most often studied piecemeal, Reeve attempts to see him both in detail and as a whole, so that it is from detailed ... see all copies from $18.74! new only from $18.74!
8	The Science of the Individual: Leibniz's Ontology of Individual Substance more books like this by Stefano Di Bella add to wishlist In his well-known "Discourse on Metaphysics", Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual as such can be given. Contrary to what has ... see all copies from $147.00! new only from $158.00! \| first editions
9	Sameness and Substance Renewed more books like this by David Wiggins add to wishlist In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he ... see all copies from $21.23! new only from $21.23! \| SVS
10	Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance: Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul more books like this by Gad Freudenthal add to wishlist Gad Freudenthal offers an original new account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines, his theory of material substance. Freudenthal argues that Aristotle's concept of heat is a crucial but hitherto ignored part of this account. Aristotle's 'canonical', four-element theory of matter fails to explain the coming-to-be of material substances (the ... see all copies from $42.48! new only from $54.71! \| SVS
11 view cover	Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance more books like this by Sheldon M Cohen add to wishlist This book examines Aristotle's metaphysics and his account of nature, stressing the ways in which his desire to explain observed natural processes shaped his philosophical thought. It departs radically from a tradition of interpretation, in which Aristotle is understood to have approached problems with a set of abstract principles in hand, ... see all copies from $28.65! new only from $28.65! \| SVS
12	The Nature of Things more books like this by Anthony Quinton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	From Substance to Subject more books like this by Nathan Rotenstreich add to wishlist see all copies from $42.50! new only from $62.90! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History more books like this by Ross Hamilton add to wishlist An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally hits Giacometti, and he experiences an epiphany. Darwin introduces accident to the basic process of life, and Freud looks to accident as the expression of unconscious desire. Accident, Ross Hamilton claims, is the force that makes ... see all copies from $26.00! new only from $27.21! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Substance Among Other Categories more books like this by Joshua Hoffman, Gary S. Rosenkrantz add to wishlist This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of ... see all copies from $50.50! new only from $76.57! \| SVS
16 view cover	Substance and attribute : a study in ontology more books like this by Michael J. Loux add to wishlist see all copies from $107.73! new only from $107.73! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance more books like this by Gad Freudenthal add to wishlist This book offers an original account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines, his theory of material substance. Gad Freudenthal argues that Aristotle's concept of heat is a crucial but hitherto ignored part of this account. Aristotle's 'canonical', four-element theory of matter fails to explain the coming-to-be of material substances (the way ... see all copies from $100.07! new only from $103.29! \| SVS
18 view cover	Aristotle on Artifacts: A Metaphysical Puzzle more books like this by Errol G Katayama add to wishlist By investigating Aristotle's belief (as stated in the Metaphysics) at all living beings are substances, this book answers the question of whether artifacts are substances. By arguing that the two criteria of substantiality are "eternity" and "actuality" (thereby excluding some organisms), and by covering Aristotle's theory of an and nature as well ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	The mystery of matter more books like this by Jennifer Trusted add to wishlist Seeks to show how ideas of matter have developed from Democritus to Heisenberg. see all copies from $108.22! new only from $117.13! \| SVS
20 view cover	Substance Among Other Categories more books like this by Gary S Rosenkrantz, Joshua Hoffman add to wishlist This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of ... see all copies from $35.99! new only from $35.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	Divine Substance more books like this by George Christopher Stead, Christopher Stead add to wishlist Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century. see all copies from $169.31! new only from $169.31! \| SVS
22 view cover	Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics more books like this by R S Woolhouse add to wishlist In the course of the book, Roger Woolhouse provides a systematic treatment of the central metaphysical views of these important and interrelated philosophers, considering their areas of agreement and disagreement. Going beyond the conventional classification of the three as The Rationalists', he explores their accounts of what is real and how this ... see all copies from $36.42! new only from $36.42! \| SVS
23 view cover	Intuition and Reality: A Study of the Attributes of Substance in the Absolute Idealism of Spinoza more books like this by James P Thomas add to wishlist This study focuses on the work of absolute idealist readers of Spinoza's metaphysics, such as John Clark Murray and Leslie Armour. The text is intended to establish a better absolute idealist interpretation of the identity of Spinoza's one substance (reality) with each of its diversity of "attributes". Consideration is given to the interpretations ... see all copies from $93.42! new only from $160.16!
24 view cover	Substance: Its Nature and Existence more books like this by Joshua Hoffman add to wishlist Substance: Its Nature and Existence investigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. It provides an accessible introduction to the history and contemporary debates of this important and often complex issue. Starting with a critical survey of the main historical attempts by ... see all copies from $39.83! new only from $39.83!
25 view cover	Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta more books like this by Michael V Wedin add to wishlist Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories the basic entities of the world are concrete objects such as Socrates: Aristotle calls them ... see all copies from $41.73! new only from $41.73! \| SVS

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