Philosophy of mind

Why ';hopeful pessimism' is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism.

Acting for Reasons is about why we do what we do.

Why ';hopeful pessimism' is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism.

What cognitive abilities underpin the use of tools, and how are tools and their properties represented or understood by tool-users?

The original essays in this volume present cutting-edge research on unstructured theories of propositional content.

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how hylomorphism can be used to solve mind-body problems--persistent problems understanding how thought, feeling, perception, and other mental phenomena fit into the physical world described by our best science.

In this volume, young voices craft a fresh exploration of living and working in virtual worlds.

Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault.

It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead--yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life.

What is it to trust well?

What cognitive abilities underpin the use of tools, and how are tools and their properties represented or understood by tool-users?

In The Physical Signature of Computation, Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini articulate and defend the robust mapping account--the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date.

This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics has never been greater.

The Quality of Thought develops and defends the thesis that thinking is a kind of experience, characterized by a sui generis phenomenology, and draws out the implications of this thesis for dominant views in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

The Quality of Thought develops and defends the thesis that thinking is a kind of experience, characterized by a sui generis phenomenology, and draws out the implications of this thesis for dominant views in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

Victims of wrongdoing are often advised not to harbour resentment or seek revenge.

Reason and Inquiry: The Erotetic Theory presents a unified theory of the human capacity for reasoning and decision-making.

Reason and Inquiry: The Erotetic Theory presents a unified theory of the human capacity for reasoning and decision-making.

Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson.

Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson.

Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life.

The Pragmatist Challenge lays out a programmatic view for taking a pragmatist approach to topics in philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being?

You sat down one evening, finally tired of performing.

You follow rules you don't remember learning.

Friedrich Nietzsche sieht den Menschen als Seil uber einem Abgrund zwischen Tier und Ubermensch.

In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works.

In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works.

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Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment.

The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist.

The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist.

Developing original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story.

In this book, Michael Blome-Tillmann offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions.

Developing original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story.

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology.

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology.

Perception and Idealism takes up two long-standing philosophical problems: how perception makes objects manifest to us, and what the world must be like for objects to be manifest in that way.

Perception and Idealism takes up two long-standing philosophical problems: how perception makes objects manifest to us, and what the world must be like for objects to be manifest in that way.