The book aims to present and defend a contextualist semantics of reasons locutions, which play a fundamental role in ethics and other areas of contemporary philosophy. The authors then use the contextualist theory to weigh in on central debates in the theory of reasons.
- This (2013) book presents a theory that truth is an inconsistent concept, advocating its replacement for theoretical purposes with 'ascending truth' and 'descending truth'. The author introduces a new possible-worlds semantics and proposes viewing truth as a rational phenomena measurement system to handle the liar and other paradoxes.
- 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 2019 book offers a careful and critical presentation of main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe's classic, Intention, at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.
- This 2020 volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. The authors pursue fundamental questions concerning the nature of rationality, the limits of the imagination, and the metaphysics of the self.
- This 2021 textbook provides a unique approach to reading philosophy. It contains texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about. The texts cover diverse areas of philosophy, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy.
- 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.
- 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 1993 work provides, for the first time, a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both British and American criminal law and its underlying morality.
- 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.