Noûs
Encyclopedia
Noûs is a philosophy
journal published four times per year by Blackwell Publishing
. It was founded by Hector-Neri Castañeda
and is currently edited by Ernest Sosa
. The journal states that it "publishes articles that address the whole range of topics at the center of philosophical debate, and long critical studies of important books."
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
journal published four times per year by Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell Publishing
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing, after Wiley took over Blackwell Publishing in...
. It was founded by Hector-Neri Castañeda
Hector-Neri Castañeda
Héctor-Neri Castañeda was a Guatemalan philosopher and founder of the journal Noûs.Born in San Vicente, Zacapa, Guatemala, he emigrated to the United States in 1948 and studied under Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in 1950 and M.A. in 1952. Castañeda...
and is currently edited by Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. He is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been at Rutgers full-time since January, 2007; previously, he had been at Brown University since 1964...
. The journal states that it "publishes articles that address the whole range of topics at the center of philosophical debate, and long critical studies of important books."
Notable articles
- "An Analysis of Some Deontic Logics" (1969) - Bengt Hansson
- "Theories of Actuality" (1974) - Robert Merrihew Adams
- "Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow" (1979) - David LewisDavid Kellogg LewisDavid Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton from 1970 until his death. He is also closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than thirty years...
- "Causal Laws and Effective Strategies" (1979) - Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)Nancy Cartwright FBA is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
- "Four-Dimensional Objects" (1990) - Peter van InwagenPeter van InwagenPeter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at Syracuse University and earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer...
- "Phenomenal Character" (1994) - Sydney ShoemakerSydney ShoemakerSydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher. Until his retirement, he was a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from Cornell and BA from Reed. In 1971, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University...
- "A Modern History Theory of Functions" (1994) - Peter Godfrey-SmithPeter Godfrey-SmithPeter Godfrey-Smith is a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. Born in Australia in 1965, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from UCSD in 1991, and joined Harvard in 2006 after previous positions at Stanford University and Australian National University...
- "Contextualism, Skepticism, and the Structure of Reasons" (1999) - Stewart Cohen
- "The Skeptic and the Dogmatist" (2000) - James Pryor