In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing.

Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXIV, Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of issues of metaphysics and issues of ethics. In the Midwest Studies tradition, twenty of the more important philosophers writing in this area have contributed original papers that extend the boundaries of philosophical discussion of issues that are of both theoretical and practical concern to a wide-ranging audience. Topics considered include the concept of human life, the relationship between the concept of personal identity and the...

Analytic philosophy was born from philosophic reflection on logic and mathematics. It has been at its strongest in these and related domains of reflection, domains that are friendly to definition and analytic clarity. From time to time, analytic philosophers, some very distinguished, have produced fine work on literature and the arts, but these areas remain underexplored in the analytic tradition. This volume is focused upon language that does not fit within the usual analytic paradigms. It's highlights include two pieces of poetry on philosophic subjects (by philosophers who are also...

This Volume illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts-in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include theory in the arts; interpretations of meaning; objectivity in meaning; and the consumer as a participant in art.

• Brings together articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts, which illuminate the notion of meaning in the arts.
  
• Addresses meaning in literature, painting, music, and dance.
  
• Explores the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility...

The American Philosophers contains papers by current leading philosophers and political theorists that explore the work of the major American philosophers from the colonial period to the present, from Jonathan Edwards to David Kaplan.

• Contains a philosophically and historically broad exploration of the major schools of American philosophy


• Examines both the pragmatists and the later Twentieth Century analytic philosophers, as well as such shapers of the political and philosophical American scene as Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Emerson,...

The essays in this volume explore various issues pertaining to human agency, such as the relationship between free will and causal determinism, and the nature and conditions of moral responsibility.

• Builds on and extends some of the very best recent work in the field.
  
• Features lively and vigorous debate.
  
• Forges connections between abstract philosophical theorizing and applied work in neuroscience and even criminal law.

This volume of Midwest Studies focuses on the currently hot topic in ethics and action theory of shared intentions and relates it to issues in collective responsibility. Each of the essays in the volume is by an internationally known scholar who has published seminal pieces on various aspects of the concepts of shared intention and collective responsibility.

• Features all new essays that expand the discussion and invite those interested in the topic to examine a variety of ways for understanding the basic idea and the application of the notion of shared...

Studies in Metaphysics was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies.

• Explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm - philosophy as conceptual analysis - is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work
• Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar

- Explores various aspects of the concept of forward-looking collective responsibility and its application
- Presents fifteen articles written by leading philosophers from around the world
- Extends the philosophical discussion of collective responsibility and collective morality towards future collective action