" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the
world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being …

A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social
structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural …

This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's
current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind …

What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the
world works? Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and …

Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory
model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental …

What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is
sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by …

The Quine-Putnam indispensability argument in the philosophy of mathematics urges us to
place mathematical entities on the same ontological footing as other theoretical entities …

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging
what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …