Topics in philosophy

How does a person experience emotions?

Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC.

FranAois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought.

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11.

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In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics.

Joshua Gert presents an original and ambitious theory of the normative.

Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003).

Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms.

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory.

A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge.

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers.

Knowledge ascriptions, such as 'Sam knows that Obama is president of the United States', play a central role in our cognitive and social lives.

Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed.

Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed.

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time.

Political theory is traditionally concerned with the justification and limits of state power.

Political theory is traditionally concerned with the justification and limits of state power.

Autonomy is a fundamental though contested concept.

What is the nature of affections such as joy, compassion, sorrow, and shame and what role do they play in politics?

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

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Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics--a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention.

This is the first logically precise, computationally implementable, book-length account of rational belief revision.

Reliabilist accounts of knowledge are widely seen as having the resources for blocking sceptical arguments, since these arguments appear to rely on assumptions about the nature of knowledge that are rendered illegitimate by reliabilist accounts.

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind.

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons.

Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge together with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.

For many years, Antony Duff has been one of the world's foremost philosophers of criminal law.

Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge together with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind.

Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens.

Weakness of will, the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's own better judgment, has remained a prominent discussion topic of philosophy.

The Evident Connexion presents a new reading of Hume's 'bundle theory' of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it.

Richard Tieszen presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in Kurt GA del's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic.

This book is the first systematic treatment of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that focuses on intellectual character virtues like open-mindedness, fair-mindedness, inquisitiveness, and intellectual courage, rigor, and carefulness.

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact.

In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly.

In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history.

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong?

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine.