Jonathan Lowe (born 1950) is currently Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Examination Board of the Department of Philosophy at Durham University

Durham University

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, England. He was born in the UK, educated at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, 1968-72, and the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, 1972-75. His main areas of research and publication are in metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

, philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e...

, philosophical logic

Philosophical logic

Philosophical logic is a term introduced by Bertrand Russell to represent his idea that the workings of natural language and thought can only be adequately represented by an artificial language; essentially it was his formalization program for the natural language...

, and the history of early modern philosophy.

Publications

• Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)
• Locke on Human Understanding (London: Routledge, 1995)
• Subjects of Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• The Possibility of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• A Survey of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Locke (London, New York: Routledge: 2005)
• The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Personal Agency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• Numerous articles in journals.

External links

• "Recent Advances in Metaphysics", Lowe's keynote address, about his four-category ontology, at the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information systems October 17-19, 2001, Ogunquit, Maine.