Books in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements series

Elizabeth Anscombe is among the most distinguished philosophers alive today. Her work has ranged over many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, the philosophy of mind and action, and the philosophy of religion. The essays in this 2000 book by distinguished contributors, including Michael Dummett and Nancy Cartwright, reflect the breadth of her interests.

Based on the London Lecture Series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy for 2006-7, this collection brings together essays from leading figures in a rapidly developing field of philosophy. Contributors include: Alvin Goldman, Timothy Williamson, Duncan Pritchard, Miranda Fricker, Scott Sturgeon, Jose Zalabardo, and Quassin Casay.

Philosophy asks questions about all areas of experience, but what about philosophy itself? In 2007-8, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, in its annual lecture series, asked distinguished philosophers to reflect on the nature, scope and possibility of philosophy. Contributors include Peter van Inwagen, Stephen Clark, John Cottingham, P. M. S. Hacker and Stephen Mullhall.

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy show the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, showing how similar themes and concerns are found in most of the major German thinkers despite differences of style and treatment.

This collection of essays by fifteen distinguished philosophers, several of whom have been closely associated with Karl Popper and his work, provides a timely assessment of Popper's fundamental contributions to philosophical thought. It offers the specialist and the general reader alike fresh insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.

There has been an increasing interest in Kant and philosophy of science in the past twenty years. Through reconstructing Kantian legacies in the development of nineteenth and twentieth century physics and mathematics, this volume explores what relevance Kant's philosophy has in current debates in philosophy of science, mathematics and physics.

What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Can phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Is naturalism fundamentally unable to accommodate phenomenological insights? This cutting-edge collection of essays contains brilliant contributions from phenomenologists across the world. The volume presents a wide range of fascinating answers to these questions.

What is it for an object to persist through time? What is the relation between an object and its parts? Do we need an ontology of truth-makers? These questions reflect the central concerns of contemporary metaphysics and are the focus of the essays published within this volume.

The papers collected here, written by moral philosophers and philosophers of economics, examine what a defensible account of how preferences should be formed for them to contribute to well-being should look like and what the significance is, if any, of preferences that are arational or not conducive to well-being.

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, first published in 2007, looks at a wide range of topics, ranging from issues such as terrorism, egalitarianism and the just war to the political philosophy of Edmund Burke, philosophical liberalism and the current state of utilitarianism in political thought.

Darwinism may have become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day however, biology is in a state of development which defies standard stereotypes. These papers, by some leading philosophers in the field, bring out the fascinating and complex issues arising in current attempts to account for life and its development.

This collection of essays brings together academics in philosophy and political theory with politicians and social commentators. The subjects covered include liberalism, education, welfare policy, religion, art and culture, and cloning. The mix of contributors and subject matter should further promote a serious engagement between philosophy and public life.

This collection of essays examines the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. The issues range widely - from quantum technology to problems of technology and culture in a developing country and contributors approach the issues from a variety of perspectives.

Philosophy of mind as traditionally understood has rarely engaged directly with psychology and psychiatry. This collection establishes the importance of this interdisciplinary approach and explores new directions in the 'philosophy of psychiatry and psychology'.

Discussions of value play a central role in contemporary philosophy. This book considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in aesthetics and also in the spiritual life. The distinguished contributors include Simon Blackburn, Jonathan Dancy, Paul Horwich, John Leslie, Timothy Sprigge, and David Wiggins.

What is consciousness? By bringing together leading historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers of mind to re-examine a broad range of inherited views, this new collection of essays addresses this and related questions from both a systematic and a theoretical perspective and seeks to create fruitful lines of future inquiry.

What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special insights into ourselves? This collection brings together leading figures in the philosophy of mind from Britain and the US, who lay out their thoughts on key issues in an accessible way.

The concept of action now occupies a central place in ethics, metaphysics and jurisprudence. This collection of original essays by leading philosophers covers the entire range of the philosophy of action, including the nature of actions themselves and the place of the concept of action in criminal law.

Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? The essays in this 1997 collection address topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all.

This collection brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills to explore the implications of plurality with regard to religion, morality and philosophy itself. The essays consider also how we should respond at the social and political levels to the claims of the pluralist.

Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers discuss these and other questions about time. Based on the latest research in philosophy and physics, these essays will be enjoyable to anyone with a speculative turn of mind.

What impulses lead us to ask philosophical questions and pursue philosophical enquiry? In a series of stimulating essays fourteen distinguished thinkers examine philosophy and their own engagement with it.

This volume of papers, arising from the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Philosophy and Medical Welfare, includes contributions from doctors, nurses, and administrators in the field of health care as well as academics in the disciplines of philosophy, economics, and politics.

Where is philosophy at the year 2000 and where should it be going in the new millennium? Based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 1999-2000, this book is written by leading international philosophers and covers the broad range of philosophical enquiry.

This volume looks at ways in which concepts drawn from evolutionary biology might enhance our understanding of the place of mind in the natural world. Issues covered include construing the mind as an adaptation, the naturalisation of intentional and phenomenal content, methodological issues in cognitive ethology and evolutionary psychology.

This collection of articles could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have attempted to answer Elizabeth Anscombe's challenge, set out in her famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958.

This major volume of original essays by leading researchers in the field explores the nature of human feelings, how and why we understand what other people feel, and how our values become involved in emotions such as guilt, fear, shame, amusement, or love.

Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. Based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2000-2001, this volume reflects the latest thinking in the field and will be of interest to all philosophers.