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Barry Loewer

Rutgers - New Brunswick
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  • Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics (edited book)
    Barry Loewer
    Blackwell. 1990.
  • Physicalism and its Discontents (edited book)
    Barry Loewer and Grant Gillett
    . 2001.
  • The philosophy of physics
    Barry Loewer
    It is not so much a distinct and established academic discipline as it is a sort of boundary, a sort of frontier, across which theoretical physics and modern western philosophy have been interrogating and informing and unsettling one another, for something on the order of four hundred years now, about the character of matter, the nature of space and time, the question of determinism, meaning of chance, the possibility of knowledge, and much else besides.
  • Philosophy of Cosmology: an Introduction (edited book)
    A. Ijjas and Barry Loewer
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  • A companion to David Lewis (edited book)
    Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2015.
    In _A Companion to David Lewis_, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. The first and only comprehensive study of the work of David…Read more