Philosophy of Mind

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amoun...

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warb...

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure ju...

In this volume, Carolina Sartorio makes the case for big-picture causalism: a naturalistic conception of agency and free agency that unifies the tw...

What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by ...

Do newborns think? Do they know that three is greater than two? Do they prefer right to wrong? What about emotions--can newborns recognize happines...

People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this cond...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be...

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In par...

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in an...

Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to a...

What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between...

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevan...

The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant's writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any ...

A unique interdisciplinary collection of papers and commentaries by leading researchers and rising scholars, representing the latest research on co...

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their ...

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why di...

In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in the hands of a philosopher, and the result is a timely and urgent argument about t...

Daniel C. Dennett began publishing innovative philosophical research in the late 1960s, and he has continued to do so for the past 45 years. He has...

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassi...

José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of r...

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousn...

Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the...

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

Victims of wrongdoing are often advised not to harbour resentment or seek revenge. Instead, they are encouraged to forgive and move on. Forgiveness...