Metaphysics
Nihilism and Metaphysics
An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.
Mothership Connections
Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.
The Orders of Nature
A systematic theory of naturalism, bridging metaphysics and the science of complexity and emergence.
Weak Thought
Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.
Essential Difference
Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.
The Other Plato
Collected writings on Plato’s unwritten teachings.
Modes of Learning
A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.
Aristotle's Concept of Chance
The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance.
Whitehead's Philosophy
Demonstrates myriad points of connection between Whitehead's philosophy and mainstream philosophical traditions.
The William Desmond Reader
Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.
Creative Experiencing
A vigorous and wide-ranging defense of Hartshorne’s “neoclassical metaphysics” of creative freedom.
Existence and the Good
Argues that morals and politics require on a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics.
Philosophical Dialectics
A study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing a clear view of the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry.
Troubling Play
This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.
The Active Life
A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.
Petrified Intelligence
A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature.
Convergence amidst Difference
Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.
Panpsychism
An anthology of readings in panpsychism, spanning two millennia.
What Happens to Us When We Think
Explores the transformation humans undergo when they do metaphysics.
Function, Selection, and Design
A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology.
Metaphysics
An edited transcript of the great Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics, given at Harvard in 1915-1916.
Kierkegaard and the Concept of Revelation
Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Kierkegaard's view of Christian revelation and demonstrates the central importance of that concept for understanding the development of his religious philosophy.
Perplexity and Ultimacy
Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy--the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.
Being and the Between
This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.
The Path of Archaic Thinking
This is the first anthology of commentary on Sallis that shows what is genuinely unique in his thought: the transformative relation of reason and imagination in thinking "after Heidegger."