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Focuses on the relationship between consciousness and the brain. This work presents a systematic, phenomenological inquiry into the features of conscious life: the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space, and time-consciousness. It is for anyone concerned with debates on consciousness in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
This book forces us to reconsider contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and definite descriptions through a historically sensitive and original interpretation of Russell's and Frege's work on meaning.
Causation is central to our lives and the world cannot be understood without understanding it. This book is an account of the nature and implications of causation.
Written by one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th-century and the founder of phenomenology, this work had a decisive impact on the direction of 20th-century philosophy when it was published in 1900.
G.E. Moore, more than either Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein was chiefly responsible for the rise of the analytic method in 20th century philosophy. This selection of his writings shows Moore at his very best.
Sorrell is critical of the scientistic tendency in philosophy. He does not wish to devalue science but supports the need to raise the status of arts and humanities within the discipline.
An extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers on the many problems associated with dispositions which is then linked to other issues, such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
Written by one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th-century and the founder of phenomenology, this work had a decisive impact on the direction of 20th-century philosophy when it was published in 1900.
Inference to the Best Explanation is an unrivalled exposition of a theory of particular interest to students both of epistemology and the philosophy of science.
First published in 1968, this text remains the most compelling, comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material. In the preface to this new edition, the author reflects on the book's impact in the light of recent debates.
A clear and systematic account of the philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist perspective.
Attacks the current materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind, reviving the arguments for the Cartesian self. It tries to rebut the standard objections brought against the dualist or Cartesian positions, paying attention to the issues of psychophysical causation and the nature of the self.
Bridging both 20th-century economics and 20th-century philosophy, the author examines the basic intellectual roots of economics.
This text extends and evolves D.H. Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, "Real Time". It aims to answer such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, and is time travel possible?
'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In "What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?", Andreas Huttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view.
Kolbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
Descriptive Psychology presents a series of lectures given by Brentano in 1887 and represents the clearest statement of his mature thought. This is the first English translation of his work and includes an authorative introduction by Muller
Arguing that the major problems in epistemology have their roots in concerns about our control over our beliefs, David Owen presents a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology.
This important contribution to the problem of scepticism offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. It questions the value of the sceptic's argument and provides a potential remedy to anti-sceptical epistemology.
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