Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining
feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular …

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces
students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language …

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a
sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that …

Philosophers working on the ontology of mind have highlighted various distinctions that can
be drawn between the ways in which different aspects of our minds fill time. For example …

Philosophical tradition and conspiracy theorists converge in suggesting that ordinary people
ought to do their own research, rather than accept the word of others. In this paper, I argue …

Grounding is not a Strict Order Page 1 Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2015)
517–534 C American Philosophical Association doi: 10.1017/apa.2014.22 Grounding is not …

This book concerns mental states such as thinking that Obama is tall, imagining that there
will be a climate change catastrophe, knowing that one is not a brain in a vat, or believing …

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However,
following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination …

Is closed-mindedness always an intellectual vice? Are there conditions in which it might be
an intellectual virtue? This paper adopts a working analysis of closed-mindedness as an …