This 2024 book offers thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers that cover a broad range of areas where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world, including such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication.
- This 2016 book argues for an account of consciousness in Locke as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness, which runs through his work and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy.
- This 2000 book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy since the Second World War.
- This 2011 volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demonstrates the persistent interplay within Epicureanism between historical and contemporary influences from outside the school and a commitment to the founders' authority.
- This (2007) book is a comprehensive collection of sixteen pivotal papers by Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent figure in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Gathering his often scattered and elusive works, it aims to provide a definitive anthology of Sellars' significant contributions.
- This 2006 book argues that in current debates about freedom of will, Kant's theory of freedom has been placed on the record of bad metaphysics.
- In this 1984 book, Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends that view from three challenges suggested by psychiatry: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that persons are not unified selves.
- This 2020 book details how both morality and law presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It defends that presupposition against four recent challenges posed by neuroscientists.
- This 2008 book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil disobedience.
- This 2018 volume tackles central questions in criminal law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy, drawing inspiration from the profoundly influential work of the philosopher and legal theorist Larry Alexander.