Metaphysics Books

New and Published Books

1. The Puzzle of Existence

   Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

   Edited by Tyron Goldschmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics

   Modulation of Being

   By Sajjad H. Rizvi

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna. In this exploration of his philosophy, Sajjad H. Rizvi examines the central doctrine of the modulation of being, and contextualises his work within the intellectual history of philosophical traditions in the Islamic East....

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Experience, Explanation and Faith

   An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

   By Anthony O'Hear

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Heaven Wasn't His Destination

   The Philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach

   By William B. Chamberlain

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   If forced to state Feuerbach’s philosophical genealogy, one would have to say that he was son of Hegel, father of Marx, and half-brother of Comte. In his own day he had many a celebratory and many a vilifier. His philosophy has received very little direct treatment in the English language....

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Humanity and Deity

   By Wilbur Marshall Urban

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This book is an attempt at a restatement of the traditional view of the relation of God to man. In opposition to humanism which proposes a religion of pure humanity, and to the theology of crisis which, so to speak, teaches a religion of pure Deity, it maintains a view of religion and theology...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Mind and Deity

   Being the Second Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Glasgow in 1940

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God. It is principally concerned with idealism - the place of ideals in reality rather than with the place of ideas. It discusses...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Reason, Truth and God

   By J. Renford Bambrough

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Dealing with theological affirmations and philosophical reactions to them, this concise book presents insightful applications of modern general philosophy to religion. Originally published in 1969, the book investigates epistemological thinking first before turning to notions of assertion, belief,...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Religion and Reality

   A Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism

   By James Henry Tuckwell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This discussion of the search for religious truth addresses a universal view of religion that can be termed ‘philosophical mysticism’ from a rational basis of experience. Originally published in 1915, this is a classic of theological thinking that investigates the fundamental nature of religion and...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Reality of the Mind

   St Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance

   By Ludger Hölscher

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine’s philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Value and Reality

    The Philosophical Case for Theism

    By Alfred Cyril Ewing

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    This is a major work by one of the best-known philosophical writers, representing the culmination of some twenty-five years’ work on the possibility of giving a rational defence of the claims of the religious man, and specifically the theist, in the face of modern criticisms. Dr Ewing’s object has...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge