If there is one topic on which we all are experts, it is ourselves. Psychologists depend on this
expertise, as asking people questions about themselves is an important means by which …

Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world's
knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the …

This challenging study places fiction squarely at the center of the discussion of metaphysics.
Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a set of narrow problems in logic …

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to
another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the …

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a
plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example …

What does it mean to be a person? The philosophical problem of personal identity has been
the subject of much debate in both Western philosophy and Buddhist philosophy. This book …

The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting
debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter …

“Probiotics: From Bench to Market” was a one‐day conference convened by the New York
Academy of Sciences on June 11, 2010, with the goal of stimulating discussion of the …

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought
experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced …

Ecology–unlike astronomy, physics, or chemistry–is a science with an associated political
and ethical movement: the Green Movement. As a result, the ecological position is often …