Howard D Robinson

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

Objections to Physicalism

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Supplementary Volume, 1991 Aristotle and the Later Tradition

Objections to Physicalism

Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration

Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration

Matter and Sense: A Critique of Contemporary Materialism

Howard Robins

Howard Robinson (born 2 October 1945) is a British philosopher, specialising in various areas of metaphysics, best known for his work in the philosophy of mind...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Bloomsbury Companions)

Featuring chapters on the latest developments in fifteen core subjects in analytic philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy is an essential guide for all those working in the field today. Introducing its history and looking ahead to new research directions, this companion brings t...

The Sixth Republic

What happens when the country you have always called home decides you're not welcome anymore? A new novel, which imagines what life might be like in France under a future Far Right President - as told through the stories of a series of different characters, The Sixth Republic is Howard Robinson’s th...

Contemporary Dualism: A Defense (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions arei...

Objections to Physicalism

Physicalism has, over the past twenty years, become almost an orthodoxy, especially in the philosophy of mind. Many philosophers, however, feel uneasy about this development, and this volume is intended as a collective response to it. Together these papers, written by philosophers from Britain, the ...

Perception (Problems of Philosophy)

Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and in the philosophy of mind. This controversial but highly accessible introduction to the area explores the philosophical importance of those questions by re-examining what had until recent times been t...

From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance: Resurrecting the Mind

This book presents a strong case for substance dualism and offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, showing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain the 'hard problem' of consciousness. Bringing together the discussion of reductionism and semantic vagueness in an original and ...

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics)

Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth-century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy o...

Matter and Sense: A Critique of Contemporary Materialism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

The assumption of materialism (in its many forms) Howard Robinson believes is false. In his book he presents a very forceful critique of the modern forms that materialism has taken. In telling discussions of the theory of supervenience put forward by Davidson and Peacocke, the central state material...