International Library of Philosophy
Logical Investigations Volume 2
1st Edition
By Edmund Husserl, Dermot Moran
July 26, 2001
Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.This is the first time both volumes have been available...
Logic, Form and Grammar
1st Edition
By Peter Long
May 01, 2006
The notion of logical form and its applications are at the heart of some of the classical problems in philosophical logic and are the focus of Peter Long’s investigations in the three essays that comprise this volume. In the first, major, essay the concern is with the notion of logical form as it ...
Metaphysicians of Meaning: Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation
1st Edition
By Gideon Makin
December 14, 2000
Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two ...
Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays
1st Edition
By Frank Plumpton Ramsey
January 01, 2006
This is Volume V in a series of eight on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Originally published in 1931, this study offers a collection of logical essays around the topic of the foundations of mathematics. Though mathematical teaching was Ramsey's profession, philosophy was his vocation. ...
Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature
1st Edition
By Scott Sturgeon
September 28, 2000
Matters of Mind examines the mind-body problem. It offers a chapter by chapter analysis of debates surrounding the problem, including visual experience, consciousness and the problem of Zombies and Ghosts. It will prove invaluable for those interested in epistemology, philosophy of mind and ...
The Price of Doubt
1st Edition
By Nicholas Nathan
April 06, 2006
The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. Nicholas Nathan confronts the sceptic. He questions the value of his argument and the knowledge it contains and provides a potential remedy to the ...
Reason Without Freedom: The Problem of Epistemic Normativity
1st Edition
By David Owens
May 25, 2000
We call beliefs reasonable or unreasonable, justified or unjustified. What does this imply about belief? Does this imply that we are responsible for our beliefs and that we should be blamed for our unreasonable convictions? Or does it imply that we are in control of our beliefs and that what we ...
The Facts of Causation
1st Edition
By D.H. Mellor, D.H. Mellor
November 05, 1998
Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation.The Facts of Causation, ...
Real Time II
1st Edition
By D.H. Mellor
June 25, 1998
Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time,Real Time. This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His Real ...
The Sceptical Challenge
1st Edition
By Ruth Weintraub
December 19, 1996
Do we really know the things we think we know? Are any of our beliefs reasonable? Scepticism gives a pessimistic reply to these important epistemological questions - we don't know anything; none of our beliefs are reasonable. But can such a seemingly paradoxical claim be more than an intellectual ...
The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind
1st Edition
By John Foster
November 14, 1996
Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most ...
Descriptive Psychology
1st Edition
By Franz Brentano
April 06, 2006
Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought. It was his work that set Husserl on to the road of phenomenology and intentionality, that inspired Meinong's theory of the object which influenced Bertrand Russell, and the entire Polish school of ...