Books by Professor Christopher (University of Cardiff Norris

Presents a fresh approach to philosophy of mind that combines naturalistic and rationalist perspectives usually thought to be at odds. This title offers various proposals for bringing the two approaches into a mutually enhancing - though also mutually provocative - relationship.

Analyses three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory. This book offers a statement of the author's views as to how 'theory' might profit from a greater awareness of philosophical debates while philosophy might likewise gain by adopting a more open-minded attitude toward developments in literary theory.

Examining key issues in the philosophy of logic, mind and language, this book proposes grounds for a different era of cooperation and mutual interrogative exchange between the two schools of thought. It explores both traditions alongside one another in order to point up certain contrasts or communities of interest.

What is a musical work? This work addresses some of the questions by way of a critical engagement with the New Musicology and other debates in philosophy of music. It puts the case for a qualified Platonist approach that would respect the relative autonomy of musical works as objects of more or less adequate understanding, and appreciation.

Alain Badiou's "Being and Event" is one of the significant works of French philosophy. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely considered to have reshaped the character and set new terms for the future development of philosophy in France and elsewhere. This book offers guidance on philosophical and intellectual context.