Books in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements series

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.