Philosophy of Mind

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal f...

Aus der Sicht der Neurobiologie regiert im Kopf das neuronale Geschehen. Doch was wissen die Hirnforscher genau über die Mechanismen des Hirngesche...

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartres LÊtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, ...

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsons Lévolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers ...

Many of our deepest disagreements turn in part on matters of definition. Philosophers have long discussed the definitions of knowledge, art, truth,...

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartres LÊtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, ...

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility a...

In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with...

4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and thriving field of interdisciplinary research. It assumes that c...

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, ...

David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, l...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an ess...

This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks (deep...

Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis begins with the simple question of why some categories of mental disorder include immoral or criminal conduct as dia...

Motivational hedonism (often called psychological hedonism) claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and t...

Rational Sentimentalism develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful,...

This book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chronological journey through th...

Why ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil? It is an elusive and politically charged concept which critics argue has no ex...

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or describ...

This book offers a contemporary philosophy of life drawing upon Buddhist resources from the Vimalakirti Sutra. Among the major themes in this Mahay...

The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is that what it is ...

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

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depen...

This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and w...

Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philos...

'Caloric restriction is one of the scientifically best-established ways to enhance longevity. A fascinating deep dive into the science and history ...

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and sp...