Ernest Sosa

Professor of Philosophy Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa collects essays, written over the last 25 years, on the scope and nature of human knowledge.

Selected Essays in Epistemology

Knowledge in Perspective

David Lewis

Lewis Ma David

This second volume of papers is devoted to Lewis's work in metaphysics and epistemology.

Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology: Volume 2

Mark DeBellis

Professor Mark Debellis

This book is a philosophical study of the content of mental representations of music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is it possible to describe a listener's cognition using music-theoretic concepts the listener does not possess? The author explains what it is for music cognition to be nonconceptual and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought. The author is both a philosopher and a musicologist and uniquely combines the perspectives of both disciplines. Exploring philosophical questions of mental representation in the relatively neglected, non-verbal domain of music, this study is a major contribution to the philosophical understanding of music perception and cognitive theory.

Music and Conceptualization

Michael Devitt

Distinguished Professor of Philosophya Michael Devitt

Devitt Michael

Professor Devitt takes up one of the most important difficulties that must be faced by philosophical semantics: namely, the threat posed by holism.

A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism

Coming to Our Senses

Mark Heller

Professor Mark Heller

Heller Mark

This provocative new book attempts to resolve traditional problems of identity over time. It seeks to answer such questions as "How is it that an object can survive change?" and "How much change can an object undergo without being destroyed?" To answer these questions Professor Heller presents a completely new theory about the nature of physical objects and about the relationship between our language and the physical world. According to his theory, the only actually existing physical entities are what the author calls "hunks," four dimensional objects extending across time and space. This is a major new contribution to ontological debate and will be essential reading for all philosophers concerned with metaphysics.

Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter

The Ontology of Physical Objects

Professor of Philosophy Ernest Sosa

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