Philosophy of Mind

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...

Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...

The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'W...

Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of re...

The first three chapters of this book introduce constructivist learning theory. The remaining chapters cover different types of constructivist lear...

The first three chapters of this book introduce constructivist learning theory. The remaining chapters cover different types of constructivist lear...

When Harambe, a now-famous gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo, was shot for endangering a small child, animal rights activists protested, calling into q...