This philosophical study presents an examination of metaphysics and ethics, focusing on the role of conceptual analysis, metaphysical necessity, and the location problem for ethics.

Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology.

This text examines the nature of language from the perspective of inference rather than representation. It proposes a theory that renders linguistic meaning in terms of use , explaining how semantic content can be conferred on expressions and attitudes that are part of social practice.

This is Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy.

One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685 1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge eloquently outlines this philosophical concept, and argues forcefully that the world consists purely .

An edited version of an unfinished text by the philosopher Gareth Evans, in which the author tries to come to terms with contemporary problems surrounding analysis and reference, including epistemology, philosophy of mind and existence.