Philosophy of Mind

Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it. This view has come to be known as th...

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their wor...

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing...

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their wor...

The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point...

Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth’s creature...

Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major ...

Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's early thought - primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Percepti...

The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, ma...

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes’s wr...

Narrative practice has come under attack in the current "post-truth" era. In fact, many associate "narrative hermeneutics"--the field of inquiry co...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it ...

Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too ...

This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and rel...

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature pla...

We evaluate people all the time for a wide variety of activities. We blame them for miscalculations, uninspired art, and committing crimes. We prai...