Philosophy of Mind

If I were a better human being, that person's voice wouldn't sound so shrill to me. Many of us may have had such thoughts. They give voice to the w...

The Pragmatist Challenge lays out a programmatic view for taking a pragmatist approach to topics in philosophy of science and metaphysics. Pragmati...

The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty ...

In Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology, Mattia Riccardi offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's thought on the human mind. A central theme is t...

Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happen...

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approac...

Self-knowledge - a person's knowledge of their own thoughts, character, and psychological states - has long been a central focus of philosophical e...

In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of mental representational: perception. Focusin...

The philosophical notion of metaphysical explanation has been subject to an increased level of attention in the previous decade. Despite tantalisin...

Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical t...

Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you. The mug is blue on the outside, white on the inside. It's larg...

For several decades, David Gauthier has been one of the leading philosophers working on practical rationality and deliberation. This book presents ...

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology enc...

J.S. Mill famously equated physical things with "permanent possibilities of sensation." This view, known as phenomenalism, holds that a rock is a t...

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work ...

This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosoph...

The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value ...

In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physio...

Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibn...

The personal identity literature is fragmented. There is a literature on the normative topic of 'what matters in survival'. And there is a separate...

It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. T...

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, compassion is the basis of morality. He sees concern for justice as a negative form of compassion, directed at no...

Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assume...

In this book, Michael Blome-Tillmann offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions. The book is divid...

The mind is directed upon the world. There are worldly things that we have beliefs about and things in the world we desire to have happen. We find ...

How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds ...

Eva Picardi (1948-2017) was one of the most influential Italian analytic philosophers of her generation. She taught for forty years at the Universi...

Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here, Jonathan Mitch...