METAPHYSICS:
An Introduction
ISBN: 0-911714-17-0
LCN: 73-7469
266 pp. paper, 1974
2nd printing 1986
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(Previously published by Harper and Row.)

METAPHYSICS:
An Introduction
by Archie J. Bahm

In this volume, Dr. Bahm discusses the "theory of existence". He addresses the following questions:
  • What is existence?
  • Who am I?
  • What is space?
  • What is time?
Dr. Bahm surveys theories that have been put forward by other philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Hume and Whitehead. He explores the following categories of existence: change, time, cause, wholes, process, purpose, action, space, substance, relations, universals and intelligence. He also explicates his theory of polarity as he believes that each category exists in opposition to another category, or in a dialectical process; i.e. yin/yang.
 

EPISTEMOLOGY:
Theory of Knowledge
ISBN: 0-911714-21-9
LCN: 94-90614
268 pp. paper, 1995
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EPISTEMOLOGY:
Theory of Knowledge
by Archie J. Bahm

Dr. Bahm was influenced by his comparative studies in Indian and Chinese philosophies. This volume on epistemology incorporates this influence with his theory of polarity. It "interprets thirty universal characteristics of existence in polar pairs, and compares five theories for each pair." His theories are:
  1. Intuition is essential to knowing because it is omnipresent in awareness of appearance.
  2. Mind is substantial. It remains through change and functions substantially in many mental ways.
  3. Mind and body are not merely interdependent but are also mutually immanent.
  4. Mind-body mutual immanence results from "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."
  5. All reasoning is analogical. Strict logic is located at the sameness end of the sameness-difference range.