David Papineau: 3 books
Knowing the Score
What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light...
Introducing Consciousness
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
"Introducing Consciousness" provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral...
Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets
Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist...