In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about, to
represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. To say of an individual's …

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Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson offer an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship
between function and aesthetic value, breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the …

The mental realm seems different to the physical realm; the mental is thought to be
dependent on, yet distinct from the physical. But how, exactly, are the two realms supposed …

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of
beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the …

En quoi la vieille thèse philosophique qui soutient que la nature embrasse tout ce qui existe
concerne-t-elle chacun d'entre nous? C'est qu'elle prend aujourd'hui la forme d'un puissant …

How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the
Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways …

'When we think of beliefs we think of views and ideas, while (a bit more technically)
philosophers speak of “propositional attitudes” or “judgments”. In his extremely original new …

Christianity has been described as “a religion seeking a metaphysic”. Drawing on the
philosophy of CS Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework centred around a …

For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions
remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of …