Philosophy of Mind

Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims...

The book proposes to see the talk about rules-following as a way of giving an account of particular peoples characters and their lives. This focus ...

This lively book offers a wide-ranging study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood from Homer through Plotinus. A. A. Long anchors his discus...

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...

Since Hannah Arendt highlighted the stunning banality of his evil crimes, Adolf Eichmann has served posterity as a prime example of thoughtlessness...

A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgensteins thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by ...

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Ignorance: A Philosophical Study provides an in-depth exploration of ignorance in its many dimensions. Philosophers have long examined epistemologi...

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In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an ambulance and w...

How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to an...

The Neuroethics of Memory is a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity and content, as well...

Thinking about self-control takes us to the heart of practical decision-making, human agency, motivation, and rational choice. Psychologists, philo...

Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of ...

An ancient metaphor likens attention to an archer pulling her bow - the self directing her mind through attention. Yet both the existence of such a...