Books in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series

The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work.

This collection of essays looks into the philosophical arguments behind artificial intelligence and whether one can equate such concepts as intelligence, understanding and thinking to computers.

Presents a selection of the most influential recent discussions of the crucial metaphysical question: What is it for one event to cause another? The subject of causation bears on many other topics, such as time, explanation, mental states, the laws of nature and the philosophy of science.

This volume offers a selection of the most interesting and important work from recent years in the philosophy of mathematics, which has always been closely linked to and has exerted a significant influence upon the main stream of analytical philosophy. The issues discussed are of interest throughout philosophy and no mathematical expertise is required of the reader.

Kant on Pure Reason

This volume in the "Oxford Readings in Philosophy" series brings together some of the most influential essays on Descartes' philosophy to have appeared in the last 50 years. They cover the full range of Descartes' thought.

This volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy looks at central areas in Plato's philosophy: ethics, politics, religion, and the soul. It includes essays on virtue, knowledge, and happiness; justice and happiness; pleasure; Platonic love; feminism; the ideally just state, democracy and totalitarianism; and the nature of the soul and moral motivation.

This collection presents the ancient problems surrounding properties in a modern light. The volume presents the aims and methods of modern metaphysics and shows how a thorough understanding of the metaphysics of properties is crucial to most of analytic philosophy.

This volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy looks at Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. It includes essays on Socratic method, the theory of forms, knowledge and belief, being and not-being, and the philosophy of language.

This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It begins with writings by William James, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, and continues with the classical discussions from the middle of the century (including Wittgenstein, Quine and Austin), ending with a selection of contemporary contributions.