International Library of Philosophy
Mind, Method and Conditionals: Selected Papers
1st Edition
By Frank Jackson
October 12, 2015
First Published in 2004. This collection of essays brings together some of Jackson's most influential publications on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, ethics and induction. The papers have been revised for this volume and the collection also includes additional material by ay of ...
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness
1st Edition
By Brian Garrett
October 12, 2015
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the ...
What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?
1st Edition
By Andreas Huttemann
February 05, 2015
'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 Hüttemann offers a fresh challenge to ...
Departing from Frege: Essays in the Philosophy of Language
1st Edition
By Mark Sainsbury
March 31, 2014
Frege is now regarded as one of the world's greatest philosophers, and the founder of modern logic. Mark Sainsbury argues that we must depart considerably from Frege's views if we are to work towards an adequate conception of natural language. This is an outstanding contribution to philosophy of ...
Dispositions: A Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Crane, D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin, U.T. Place
February 25, 2014
Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the...
G.E. Moore: Selected Writings
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Baldwin, G.E. Moore
October 23, 2013
G.E. Moore, more than either Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein, was chiefly responsible for the rise of the analytic method in twentieth-century philosophy. This selection of his writings shows Moore at his very best.The classic essays are crucial to major philosophical debates that still ...
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science
2nd Edition
By Jody Azzouni
April 15, 2013
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the ...
An Examination of Logical Positivism
1st Edition
By Julius Rudolph Weinberg
June 28, 2012
First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, philosophical systems which employ logical methods almost exclusively would undoubtedly be expected to produce non-empirical results. If, however, logic is taken ...
Conceptual Roots of Mathematics
1st Edition
By J.R. Lucas
November 09, 2011
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and ...
Charles Peirce's Empiricism
1st Edition
By Justus Buchler
December 13, 2010
This is Volume I of six in a series on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy. Originally published in 1939, this study looks Charles Peirce, who characterized himself as a mere table of contents, so abstract, a very snarl of twine. The purpose of the following pages is to ...
Reasons and Faiths
1st Edition
By Ninian Smart
December 13, 2010
This is Volume VII of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. It presents an investigation of religious discourse, Christian and non-Christian, originally published in 1958. The aim is to describe the nature of religious doctrines and concepts, including Buddhism and ...
Scientific Thought: A Philosophical Analysis of some of its fundamental concepts
1st Edition
By C.D. Broad
December 13, 2010
This is Volume I of a series of six on the Philosophy of Science. Originally published in 1923, this study offers a philosophical analysis of some of science's fundamental concepts and is ultimately based on a course of lectures delivered to the third year students of science at the University of ...