William Jaworski is an award-winning author, best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and religion. His book Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford University Press 2016) won the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in the Humanities, and his textbook Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell 2011) is widely used in graduate and undergraduate courses. Dr. Jaworski has also published numerous journal articles, reviews, and other contributions to the philosophical literature. Below are links to some of his published works.
William Jaworski shows how hylomorphism, a theory originated by Aristotle, can be used to solve mind-body problems.
“William Jaworski’s book is a splendid addition to [the] revival of hylomorphism, notable for its clarity, thoroughness of presentation and depth of analysis… Jaworski spells out the details of a wide ranging metaphysical picture of the world… explicitly contrasting it with alternative views… in a way that is incidentally a wonderful guide to a host of views and arguments about substance, properties, modality and ontology… His book will richly repay study by anyone interested in the mind-body problem and metaphysics in general” (William Seager, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).
“Jaworski’s book is eminently clear and well-argued. He develops a genuinely novel account of the mind (and a novel version of hylomorphism) that merits wide discussion… [H]is strategy of situating the theory within a detailed background metaphysics… carries the only realistic hope of making progress in the largely deadlocked philosophy of mind literature” (Travis Dumsday, Dialogue)
William Jaworski clearly and carefully introduces readers to some of the most intensely debated topics in philosophy today: How is consciousness related to states of the brain? Can computers think? Do we have freewill or is it just a convenient social myth? Do we have souls? Is the physical universe just a projection of our minds? Does the brain determine everything we do?
“This book is comprehensive indeed, offering substantive treatments of unjustly neglected positions… alongside the usual varieties of dualism and physicalism. It is also very well-written, well-organized, and handsomely illustrated with a battery of extremely useful diagrams. Newcomers to the subject will learn an enormous amount, and experts will find much of interest too. It is without a doubt among the best currently available textbooks in the field” (Edward Feser, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly).
“Philosophy of mind is an incredibly active field thanks in part to the recent explosion of work in the sciences of mind. Jaworski’s book is a well-written, comprehensive, and sophisticated primer on all the live positions on the mind-body… This is a serious and responsible book for philosophy students, philosophers, and mind scientists who want to understand where they stand philosophically” (Owen Flanagan, Duke University)
Consciousness & the Emotions
Hylomorphism and the Construct of Consciousness
Mind-Body Theories and the Emotions
Defensive Survival Circuits and Recent Developments in the Metaphysics of Mind
The Mind-Body Problem
Why Chalmers’ Argument against Materialism Fails
Psychology without a Mental-Physical Dichotomy
The Problem of Mental Causation
The Problem of Other Minds
The Problem of Emergence
Contemporary Hylomorphism and the Problems of Mind versus Body
Hylomorphism and the Problem of Mental Causation (Part 1)
Hylomorphism and the Problem of Mental Causation (Part 2)
Hylomorphism: Emergent Properties without Emergentism
Hylomorphic Emergentism and the Dualist-Physicalist Divide
Review of Andrew Melnyk’s A Physicalist Manifesto by Andrew Melnyk
Mental Causation from the Top Down
Mind and Multiple Realizability
Multiple-Realizability, Explanation, and the Disjunctive Move
Hylomorphism and Mind-Body Problems
Hilary Putnam and the Mind of Aristotle
Metaphysics
What Are Hylomorphic Forms? Hylomorphism and Part-Whole Realism
Individuals, Properties, and Events
Hylomorphism & the Thomistic Theory of Parts
Levels in the Natural World
Hylomorphism and Material Composition
The Body-Minus Problem
The Problem of Too Many Thinkers
Atomless Gunk and the Denial
Hylomorphism and the Metaphysics of Structure
Peter van Inwagen and the Hylomorphic Renaissance
Today Is a Good Day to Die: Transporters and Human Extinction
Animalism and Personhood
Swinburne on Substances, Properties, and Structures
Ethics
Rules and Virtues: The Moral Insight of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue
Faith, Understanding, and the Hidden God of The Matrix
Logic & Language
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