The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Loux |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 2005-09-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199284221 |
Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Callender |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0199298203 |
This is the first comprehensive book on the philosophy of time. Leading philosophers discuss the metaphysics of time, our experience and representation of time, the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially quantum mechanics and relativity theory.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Brian McLaughlin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 833 |
Release | 2009-01-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199262616 |
This is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the state of the art in philosophy of mind, a flourishing area of research. An outstanding team of contributors offer 45 new critical surveys of a wide range of topics.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience PDF eBook |
Author | John Bickle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 2009-07-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199719500 |
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research spanning philosophy (of science, mind, and ethics) and current neuroscience. Containing chapters written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in this area, and in some cases co-authored with neuroscientists, this volume reflects both the breadth and depth of current work in this exciting field. Topics include the nature of explanation in neuroscience; whether and how current neuroscience is reductionistic; consequences of current research on the neurobiology of learning and memory, perception and sensation, neurocomputational modeling, and neuroanatomy; the burgeoning field of neuroethics and the neurobiology of motivation that increasingly informs it; implications from neurology and clinical neuropsychology, especially in light of some bizarre symptoms involving misrepresentations of self; the extent and consequences of multiple realization in actual neuroscience; the new field of neuroeudamonia; and the neurophilosophy of subjectivity. This volume will interest philosophers working in numerous fields who wish to see how current neuroscience is being brought to bear directly on philosophical issues. It will also be of interest to neuroscientists who wish to learn how the research programs of some of their colleagues are being enriched by interaction with philosophers, and finally to those working in any interdisciplinary field who wish to see how two seemingly disparate disciplines--one traditional and humanistic, the other new and scientific--are being brought together to both disciplines' mutual benefit.
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jay L. Garfield |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 2011-06-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019532899X |
This volume provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. Sections on Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, East Asian philosophy, African philosophy, and trends in global philosophy are all edited by an expert.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Bradley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190271450 |
This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 769 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199668779 |
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience.