This book charges that just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically inaccurate. Systemic oppression has influenced the processes that theories of mind...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor & Francis Website., In his Responsibility and the moral sentiments, Wallace develops the idea that we should think of what it is to be morally responsible for an act...
Maher, Chauncey. The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom. New York: Routledge, 2012., For more information on the published version, visit Routledge's Website., Chauncey Maher is a professor of...
The idea that plants have minds can sound improbable, but some widely respected contemporary scientists and philosophers find it plausible. It turns out to be rather tricky to vindicate the presumption that plants do not have...
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., Published as:Engelhardt, Jeff. The Problem of Secondary Effects. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 54, no. 2 (2016): 247-266. doi: 10.1111/sjp.12168 This...
This paper sketches and motivates a metaphysics of mind that is both substance dualist and, to a large extent, property reductive. Call it “property reductive emergent dualism”. Section “Emergent Dualism” gives the broad...
Queer ecology brings together queer theory with environmental philosophy and ecology. This paper aims to show how and why queer ecology is a liberatory theory. It investigates the major aspects of queer theory,...
Epistemology is a diverse and far-reaching discipline, centering on the study of knowledge. The question 'what is knowledge?' is foundational to the study. There are various types of knowledge; this thesis explores...