This is the only sourcebook of primary readings in philosophy of mind, offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies, from Aristotle, Descartes, and Ryle to Noam Chomsky, Frank Jackson, and Saul Kripke. "The Philosophy of Mind" remains the only sourcebook of primary readings, offering in-depth coverage of both ...
This first book devoted solely to Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment collects the main essays in which Jackson presents, and later rejects, his argument along with key responses by other philosophers. Author Stoljar from ANU.
In this work, Peter Ludlow offers a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual ...
This collection of articles on cyberspace policy issues, has been collated from print and electronic sources, together with extracts from on-line discussions of these issues. The topics covered include privacy, property rights, hacking, encryption, censorship and self and community on-line.
How a virtual journalist in the virtual world of online gaming landed on the real-world front page of the "New York Times" and how his virtual newspaper chronicled the emergence of the next generation of the World Wide Web.When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world ...
Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into ...
One of the most provocative projects in recent analytic philosophy has been the development of the doctrine of externalism, or, as it is often called, anti-individualism. While there is no agreement as to whether externalism is true or not, a number of recent investigations have begun to explore the question of what follows if it is true. One of ...
Peter Ludlow's latest Briefing Note is concerned with the structure of leadership in the European Union. As Jean Monnet observed, 'nothing is possible without men, nothing is lasting without institutions'. During the past thirty or forty years, the EU has developed a remarkably effective system of collective leadership in and through the European ...
According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists ...
This latest volume of "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten best articles published in the field during 2001. No limitations are placed on the articles' sources, subject matter or mode of treatment, providing for a diverse collection of engaging, high-caliber work that stands as a valuable sample of contemporary philosophy. This year's ...
Like all European Councils in the post-Seville era, the Spring European Council of 2005 began long before the heads of government and state assembled in Brussels on 22 March. A substantial part of Peter Ludlow's paper is therefore devoted to the preliminaries. The four major themes of the meeting were: reform of the stability and growth pact: the ...
Each year, "The Philosopher's Annual" presents the ten best articles published in the field of philosophy during the previous 12 months. No limitations are placed on the articles' sources, subject matter or modes of treatment, making for a very diverse collection of engaging, high-calibre work. This year's volume includes papers by Katalin Balog, ...
Little attention has been paid to the nature of EC relations with neighbours and partners in the South. This book from the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels does much to redress the balance. The book examines the obvious appeal of a common Mediterranean policy in relation to the economy of the region, Islam and Mediterranean security. ...
The December European Council was about Turkey or, more specifically still, about whether and on what terms the EU should open accession negotiations with the Turkish government. The final decision was positive. It was only arrived at however, after lengthy and at times painful negotiations inside Coreper and the European Council and between the ...
"Setting EU Priorities 2008" consists of six substantial papers based on the European Strategy Forum's third meeting in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. The topics covered are the state of the Union at the beginning of 2008, the euro area and economic governance, the economic outlook in the EU, reform of the EU budget, the Mediterranean Union, and ...
This is the first book in a series of commentaries on every meeting of the European Council. Based on extensive unpublished and unattributable sources, it gives a unique insight into how the EU works and how it affects the lives of all EU citizens.
This book is the second to be published by the European Strategy Forum. Based on a conference on the EU and China, which the Forum organised in Ponte de Lima in May 2007, it consists of seven substantial essays on key aspects of EU-Chinese relations. As Peter Ludlow writes in the introductory chapter, relations between the EU and China have ...
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