In this review, the authors interrogate the recent identity turn in literacy studies by asking,
How do particular views of identity shape how researchers think about literacy and …

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the
limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of …

As the (in) famous definition states:'An ontology is an explicit specification of a
conceptualization'. However, an ontology is also a philosophical theory of existence, a …

The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in
ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world …

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an
introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject …

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of
our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial …

A number of important philosophical problems are closely connected to questions in
ontology. For example, to make progress in the philosophy of arithmetic, one needs to come …

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential
or phenomenal continuity. Provided our mental life continues we can easily imagine …

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the
medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context …

The paper has two parts: First, I describe a relatively popular thesis in the philosophy of
propositional attitudes, worthy of the name 'taking tense seriously'; and I distinguish it from a …