A general introduction to the problems and methods of philosophy drawing on classic and contemporary texts. Topics covered may include the existence of God and nature of religious belief, what it ...

Philosophy is the attempt to answer fundamental questions about the nature of knowledge, reality, and morals. In North America and the United Kingdom, the dominant approach is analytic philosophy, ...

Students on this programme have the opportunity to receive a language specialism attached to their degree certificate and transcript. See the details at the bottom of this page for more information.

The philosophy of language and propositional attitudes investigates the complex interplay between linguistic structures and the mental states that underpin communication, thought, belief and behaviour ...

Logic: The Question of Truth. Translated by Thomas Sheehan. Indiana University Press, 2010. Cloth, $44.95. In the course of the Winter Semester 1925-26, as the story goes, the dean of the philosophy ...

The best class I took in college was on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Until that point, I had avoided philosophy of language as simply being too esoteric and hermetic to be of use. David Pears, ...

The major complements this grounding in the traditional core areas of linguistics with a set of elective courses chosen by each student, according to individual interests and academic goals. These are ...

Bing Shuo graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in Philosophy. He is primarily interested in some topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Outside of philosophy, he ...

THIS excellent compendium of the views and doctrines of the new positivism derived from the scientific empiricism of the Vienna circle and an extreme interpretation of the aims of logic, will no doubt ...

Tables of contents for recent issues of Mind are available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/mind/contents . Authorized users may be able to access the full text articles at ...

To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use one’s own understanding. Our mission in the Philosophy Department at Miami ...

Job advertisements in philosophy invariably use the phrases “Area of Specialization” and/or “Area of Competence,” or sometimes “Open Area,” meaning, respectively, that the recruiter is looking for ...