On not being able to paint

Abstract Being has been at the forefront of philosophical debate from its very beginning, whereas non-being has been often considered as a derivative of being and an...

The monograph develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of the sociology of well-being as an independent branch of sociology designed to investigate how people define...

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why is there Being at all and not absolutely nothing?" ...

Description First publication of its kind to present current, wide-ranging data on the effects of exposure to lead from paint, soil and dust. Features the latest res...

Among the scientists and policymakers, measurability of well-being is now almost uncontroversial—only the individual measures are. Philosopher Daniel Hausman, however, argues that ...

Marianne North (1830–90), the Victorian amateur botanist and painter, travelled to distant countries of the world to paint exotic flora in their natural surroundings. This two-volu...

I conclude this book by summarizing the two most crucial points for which I have argued.First, most perfect being theists take it for granted that the perfect being thesis, i.e. th...

One of the oldest questions in metaphysics concerns not the various natures of beings but rather the nature of being itself: is being unitary or does being fragment? The primary ai...