Howard Robinson is Soros Professor of Philosophy at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Matter and Sense (CUP, 1982) and Perception (Routledge, 1994), editor of George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues in the World's Classics series (OUP 1996), and co-editor of the following volumes: Essays on Berkeley (OUP, 1985), The Pursuit of Mind (Carcanet, 1991), and Aristotle and the Later Tradition (OUP, 1991).

`a considerable set of challenges to contemporary physicalism. The essays are largely non-technical and are typically clear and substantial. The editor has contributed ... a useful introduction identifying the essays main themes and clarifying some important problems facing physicalism...Recommended for any library supporting advanced undergraduate or graduate work in philosophy and psychology. Paul K. Moser, Choice

• Introduction ; 1. Thinking ; 2. Physicalism and Mathematics ; 3. Transcendental Arguments Against Physicalism ; 4. Actions, Causes, and Mental Ascriptions ; 5. Materialism and the Logical Structure of Intentionality ; 6. Truth, Physicalism, and Ultimate Theory ; 7. The Anti-Materialist Strategy and the 'Knowledge Argument' ; 8. Incorrigibility ; 9. Weak Materialism ; 10. Non-Reductive Physicalism? ; 11. Difficulties with Physicalism, and a Programme for Dualists ; 12. The Grain Problem ; 13. The Succinct Case for Idealism ; Bibliography, Index

Howard Robinson is Soros Professor of Philosophy at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Matter and Sense (CUP, 1982) and Perception (Routledge, 1994), editor of George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues in the World's Classics series (OUP 1996), and co-editor of the following volumes: Essays on Berkeley (OUP, 1985), The Pursuit of Mind (Carcanet, 1991), and Aristotle and the Later Tradition (OUP, 1991).

`a considerable set of challenges to contemporary physicalism. The essays are largely non-technical and are typically clear and substantial. The editor has contributed ... a useful introduction identifying the essays main themes and clarifying some important problems facing physicalism...Recommended for any library supporting advanced undergraduate or graduate work in philosophy and psychology. Paul K. Moser, Choice

• Introduction ; 1. Thinking ; 2. Physicalism and Mathematics ; 3. Transcendental Arguments Against Physicalism ; 4. Actions, Causes, and Mental Ascriptions ; 5. Materialism and the Logical Structure of Intentionality ; 6. Truth, Physicalism, and Ultimate Theory ; 7. The Anti-Materialist Strategy and the 'Knowledge Argument' ; 8. Incorrigibility ; 9. Weak Materialism ; 10. Non-Reductive Physicalism? ; 11. Difficulties with Physicalism, and a Programme for Dualists ; 12. The Grain Problem ; 13. The Succinct Case for Idealism ; Bibliography, Index