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Subjects of Experience
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00This innovative study proposes and explores a distinctly non-Cartesian dualism of self and body. more...
Meditations, Objections, and Replies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 11.50This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi?in which several of Descartes' associates... more...
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 24.00Presents Price's distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures. more...
The Red and the Real
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 34.99The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color - a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. Cohen first argues (on... more...
What are we to Understand Gracia to Mean
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 77.00This book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J. E. Gracias views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracias responses to his critics makes this book a useful companion to Gracias Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation... more...
Information und Menschenbild (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment) (German Edition)
Springer 2010; US$ 54.99Begriffe wie ?Information" oder ?Gen" beeinflussen den Wandel von Menschenbildern in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Um zu einem angemessenen Verständnis vom Menschen zu gelangen, müssen die in die Forschung eingebrachten anthropologischen Prämissen kritisch analysiert werden. Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge von Wissenschaftlern aus den Bereichen... more...
Time, Reality and Experience
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 40.00Collection of original essays by leading philosophers on a range of questions about time. more...
Reframing the Social
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Poe Yu-ze Wan argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas... more...
From an Ontological Point of View
Clarendon Press 2003; US$ 48.99Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural properties best regarded as qualities or powers or some combination of these? What are... more...
Four-Dimensionalism
Clarendon Press 2001; US$ 44.99Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges four-dimensionalism faces. Theodore Sider pays particular attention to the philosophy... more...









