Staff
Professor EJ Lowe, B.Phil., M.A., D.Phil.
Professor/Acting Dir PG Studies/Chair BoE in the Department of Philosophy
Biography
Jonathan Lowe has published over 150 articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. Some of his books include: Kinds of Being (1989), Locke on Human Understanding (1995), Subjects of Experience (1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (2000), A Survey of Metaphysics (2002), Locke (2005), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), and Personal Agency (2008). His recent awards include a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2003-4). He is a General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy monograph series.
Research Groups
- Mind, Language and Metaphysics
Research Interests
- Contemporary metaphysics
- Philosophy of logic and language
- Philosophy of mind and action
- The philosophy of John Locke
Selected Publications
- Forthcoming. Philosophical Logic. (View publication online)
Books: authored
- Lowe, EJ 2008. Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Lowe, EJ 2006. The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Lowe, EJ 2005. Locke. London, New York: Routledge. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Lowe, EJ 2002. A Survey of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Books: sections
- Lowe, E.J. 2005. Identity, Vagueness, and Modality. In Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans. Bermudez, J.L. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 290-310. (View publication online)
Journal papers: academic
- Lowe, E.J. 2007. A Problem for A Posteriori Essentialism Concerning Natural Kinds. Analysis 67(296): 286-292. (View publication online)
- Lowe, E.J. 2005. How are Ordinary Objects Possible? The Monist 88(4): 510-533. (View publication online)
- Lowe, E.J. 2002. Metaphysical Nihilism and the Subtraction Argument. Analysis 62(273): 62-73. (View publication online)
