Philosophy of science

Mental Illness

Tim Thornton | University of Central Lancashire, Preston The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it right to count it, and particular mental illnesses, as genuinely medical as opposed to moral matters? This Element serves as a guide to these contested debates.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

75pp Jun. 2022 9781108925020 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108939836

Mindreading and Social Cognition

Jane Suilin Lavelle | University of Edinburgh This Element critiques assumptions that have been formative in shaping philosophical theories of mindreading: that mindreading is ubiquitous, underpinning the vast majority of our social interactions; and that its primary goal is to provide predictions and explanations of other people’s behaviour.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

75pp Feb. 2022 9781108925051 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108946766

Qualitative Consciousness

Themes from the Philosophy of David Rosenthal Josh Weisberg | University of Houston This collection investigates themes from the philosophy of the influential philosopher of mind David Rosenthal, focusing on key ideas in the study of qualitative consciousness, conscious experience marked by sensory qualities like felt pain or the experienced colors of a sunset. The essays elaborate, criticize, and refine Rosenthal’s views.

288pp Sep. 2022 9781108487832 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108768085

The Metaphysics of Mind

Janet Levin | University of Southern California The Metaphysics of Mind presents and discusses the major contemporary theories of the nature of mind, including Dualism, Physicalism, RoleFunctionalism, Russellian Monism, Panpsychism, and Eliminativism.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

75pp Mar. 2022 9781108925075 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108946803

The Philosophy of Mind

Anthony O’Hear | University of Buckingham This influential volume contributed to the shift in how philosophy of mind is understood. While previous studies tended to focus exclusively on the mind-body problem, this one offered new ways of looking at the discipline. It addresses the epistemology of mind, and intentionality and consciousness, especially in connection with perception.

Talking Philosophy

600pp Jun. 2022 9781009108638 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781009105262

A Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory

Sharon Berry Berry discusses motivations for, and alternatives to, the Potentialist approach to set theory, providing a new and more intuitive justification for the standard axioms of set theory. This book will interest students and scholars of the philosophy of set theory, modal logic, and the role of mathematics in the sciences.

288pp Feb. 2022 9781108834315 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108992756

A Philosopher Looks at Science

Nancy Cartwright | Durham University What is science and what can it do? This innovative book uses examples from the physical, life, and social sciences to focus on all the products of science and how they work together. It will interest anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in our society.

222pp Jun. 2022 9781009201889 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.95 eISBN 9781009201896

Bayesianism and Scientific Reasoning

Jonah N. Schupbach | University of Utah Explores the Bayesian approach to the logic and epistemology of scientific reasoning. It introduces the probability calculus as an appealing generalization of classical logic for uncertain reasoning, explores Bayesian epistemology and applies the formal tools and principles to a handful of topics in the epistemology of scientific reasoning.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

75pp Mar. 2022 9781108714013 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108657563

Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society

R. Paul Thompson | University of Toronto Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cognitive capacities (rationality, behavioural modification).

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

75pp May. 2022 9781009244916 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 May. 2022 9781108741705 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108680752

Fundamentality and Grounding

Kerry McKenzie | University of California, San Diego This Element introduces the reader to the concept of grounding and some of the key issues that animate contemporary debates around it, such as the question of whether grounding is ‘unified’ or ‘plural’ and whether there exists a fundamental level of reality.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

75pp Mar. 2022 9781108714020 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108657617

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Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language

Logical Entanglement, Formalism Freeness Juliette Kennedy | University of Helsinki In this book Juliette Kennedy presents an original perspective on foundations of mathematics. Departing from Gödel and Tarski’s work, the treatment is historically, logically and settheoretically rich, and topics such as naturalism and foundations receive their due, but now with an entirely new twist.

199pp Aug. 2022 9781108940573 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2020 9781107012578 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9780511998393

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Interpreting Feyerabend

Critical Essays Karim Bschir | Universität St Gallen, Switzerland This collection provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It includes innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend’s take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as debates in the philosophy of physics.

270pp Nov. 2022 9781108458917 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2021 9781108471992 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108575102

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Interpreting Mach

Critical Essays John Preston | University of Reading This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of the physicist, psychologist and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from the image of a Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates in the contemporary philosophies of natural science, psychology, metaphysics and mind.

299pp Nov. 2022 9781108463287 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2021 9781108474016 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108564311

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Mathematics and Its Logics

Philosophical Essays Geoffrey Hellman | University of Minnesota The essays in this volume present a case for pluralism in mathematics and its logics, largely supporting coexistence despite apparent contradictions between different systems. In addition, the volume further develops Hellman’s modal-structuralist account of mathematics, recognizing indefinite extendability of models and stages at which sets occur.

294pp Nov. 2022 9781108714006 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Feb. 2021 9781108494182 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108657419

Mathematics and Metaphilosophy

Justin Clarke-Doane | Columbia University, New York This Element discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge, and its broader philosophical ramifications. It argues that the challenge to explain the (defeasible) justification of our mathematical beliefs (‘the justificatory challenge’), arises insofar as disagreement over axioms bottoms out in disagreement over intuitions.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

75pp Jun. 2022 9781108995405 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108993937

Mechanisms in Science

Method or Metaphysics? Stavros Ioannidis | University of Athens, Greece The current philosophical consensus is that science searches for mechanisms. This book re-evaluates central features of this consensus arguing that ‘mechanism’ as used in scientific practice is a methodological concept, which implies no deep metaphysical commitments.

250pp Jun. 2022 9781316519905 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009019668

Money-Pump Arguments

Johan E. Gustafsson | University of York This Element shows how Expected Utility Theory can be defended by money-pump arguments. The Element also defends money-pump arguments from the standard objections to this kind of approach. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

75pp Oct. 2022 9781108718950 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108754750

Ontology and the Foundations of Mathematics

Talking Past Each Other Penelope Rush This Element looks at the problem of intertranslation between mathematical realism and anti-realism and argues that so far as realism is inter-translatable with anti-realism, there is a burden on the realist to show how her posited reality differs from that of the anti-realist.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

75pp Feb. 2022 9781108716932 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108592505

Paraconsistency in Mathematics

Zach Weber | University of Otago, New Zealand Paraconsistency was intended for use in mathematics, providing a rigorous framework for describing abstract objects and structures where some contradictions are allowed, without collapse into incoherence. This Element provides a selective introductory survey of this research program, distinguishing between `moderate’ and `radical’ approaches.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

75pp Aug. 2022 9781108995412 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108993968