Are 'persons' physical things, members of the species homo sapiens which exist solely in materialist form, continuous in structure with other living things?
The book seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to major logical results.
In the twentieth century, many contemporary epistemologists in the analytic tradition have entered into debate regarding the right to belief with new tools: Richard Swinburne, Anthony Kenny, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Peter van Inwagen (who contributes a piece in this volume) defending or contesting the requirement of evidence for any justified belief.
This book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations.
Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject.
The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues.
Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim of helping people realize what is of value in life and make progress toward a more civilized world.
This monograph argues that the structuralist movement in linguistics was curtailed prematurely, before its contribution to cognitive science could be fully realized.
Due to its scope and depth, Moore's Causation and Responsibility is probably the most important publication in the philosophy of law since the publication of Hart's and Honore's Causation in the Law in 1959.
