The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

Frank Jackson and Michael Smith

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The state-of-the-art guide to today's most exciting research in academic philosophy
A stellar team of contributors from the UK, Europe, North America, and Australasia
Each essay is substantial and challenging but fully accessible

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

Frank Jackson and Michael Smith

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Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy is the definitive guide to what's going on in this lively and fascinating subject. Jackson and Smith, themselves two of the world's most eminent philosophers, have assembled more than thirty distinguished scholars to contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research. The coverage is broad, with sections devoted to moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of the sciences. This Handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of philosophy today.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

Frank Jackson and Michael Smith

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Introduction Frank Jackson & Michael Smith
I. Moral Philosophy
Chapter 1. Meta-Ethics, Michael Smith
Chapter 2. Normative Ethics, Julia Driver
Chapter 3. Moral Epistemology, Karen Jones
Chapter 4. Moral Psychology, Jay Wallace
Chapter 5. Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, Stephen Stich & John Doris
II. Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 6. Liberalism and Diversity, Linda Barclay
Chapter 7. Law, Jeremy Waldron
Chapter 8. Democracy, David Estlund
Chapter 9. Feminism in Philosophy, Rae Langton
Chapter 10. Rational Actor Perspectives, Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit
III. Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chapter 11. Intentionality, Gabriel Segal
Chapter 12. Consciousness, Frank Jackson
Chapter 13. Action, Alfred Mele
Chapter 14. Cognitive Science, Martin Davies
IV. Philosophy of Language
Chapter 15. Reference and Description, Scott Soames
Chapter 16. Meaning and Understanding, Ian Rumfitt
Chapter 17. Truth, Paul Horwich
Chapter 18. Pragmatics, Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber
V. Metaphysics
Chapter 19. Causation, Ned Hall
Chapter 20. Modality, Lloyd Humberstone
Chapter 21. Time, D H Mellor
Chapter 22. Constitution and Identity, Mark Johnston
VI. Epistemology
Chapter 23. Knowledge and Skepticism, Timothy Williamson
Chapter 24. Perception, Michael Martin
Chapter 25. The A Priori, Christopher Peacocke
VII. Philosophy of the Sciences
Chapter 26. Scientific Realism, Michael Devitt
Chapter 27. Laws, Nancy Cartwright and Anna Alexandrova
Chapter 28. Philosophy of Biology, Philip Kitcher
Chapter 29. The Foundations of Physics, David Albert

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

Frank Jackson and Michael Smith

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Author Information

Contributors:

Frank Jackson, (Australian National University)
Michael Smith, (Princeton)
Julia Driver, (Dartmouth College)
Karen Jones, (University of Melbourne)
Jay Wallace, (University of California, Berkeley)
Stephen Stich, (Rutgers)
John Doris, (Washington University in St Louis)
Linda Barclay, (Aarhus University)
Jeremy Waldron, (Columbia University)
David Estlund, (Brown University)
Rae Langton, (MIT)
Geoffrey Brennan, (Australian National University)
Philip Pettit, (Princeton)
Gabriel Segal, (King's College London)
Frank Jackson, (Australian National University)
Alfred Mele, (Florida State University)
Martin Davies, (Oxford University)
Scott Soames, (University College London)
Ian Rumfitt, (University of London)
Paul Horwich, (New York University)
Deirdre Wilson, (University College London)
Dan Sperber, (Institut Jean Nicod in Paris)
Ned Hall, (Harvard University)
Lloyd Humberstone, (Monash University)
D H Mellor, (University of Cambridge)
Mark Johnston, (Princeton University)
Timothy Williamson, (University of Oxford)
Michael Martin, (University College London)
Christopher Peacocke, (Columbia University)
Michael Devitt, (CUNY)
Nancy Cartwright, (University of California, San Diego)
Anna Alexandrova, (University of California, San Diego)
Philip Kitcher, (Columbia University)
David Albert, (Columbia University)