David Lewis 
Papers in Philosophical Logic: Volume 1 [PDF ebook] 

First published in 2002. This is Volume VIII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1967, this study is the author’s views on Bradley”s ideas of the intuitive an …

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking a …

Values have always been a central topic in both philosophy and the social sciences. Statements about what is good or bad, fair or unfair, legitimate or illegitimate, express clear beliefs about human …

Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers …

Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ‘ extreme” conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans t …

Holism maintains that a phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. Yet analysis–a mental process crucial to comprehension–involves dismantling the whole to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. W …

Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psyc …

From Homer to Aristotle, understanding anger and harnessing its power was at the core of Hellenic civilization. Homer created the framework for philosophical inquiries into anger, one that persisted …

Some commentators claim that Anselm’s writings contain a second independent "modal ontological argument" for God’s existence. A. D. Smith contends that although there is a second a priori a …