Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems
in philosophy. Its adherents argue that there is no more important doctrine in philosophy …

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence
is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures …

The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the world. In this book, Jason
Stanley argues that knowing how to do something amounts to knowing a truth about the …

François Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference
in language and thought. He aims to recast the'nondescriptivist'approach to reference that …

This paper concerns two points of intersection between de se attitudes and the study of
natural language: attitude ascription and communication. I first survey some recent work on …

Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in
the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He …

In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The
vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in …

How do you know your own thoughts and feelings? Do we have 'privileged access' to our
own minds? Does introspection provide a grasp of a thinking self or 'I'? The problem of self …

When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it
from a perspective. We say and think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here …

It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in
fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic …