
PHILOSOPHY BOOK DRAFTS
Stephen Priest's unpublished works in progress for download.
From reviews of previous work:
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'reminded me of why I once wanted to study philosophy' Peter Hitchens The Daily Mail
'careful, painstaking...impressive' The Philosophical Quarterly
'high level' Philosophical Books
'confidence and elan' The Times Educational Supplement
'Fascinating...pleasingly bright' The New York Times Book Review
'refreshingly direct' The Philosophical Quarterly
'illuminating' Baroness Mary Warnock (Girton College, Cambridge)
'splendid...exemplary clarity... Above all, he shows us good philosophy.'
Michael Inwood (Trinity College, Oxford)
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Stephen Priest is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. He is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford and Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
Stephen is the author of The British Empiricists (Penguin), Theories of the Mind (Penguin), Merleau-Ponty (Routledge), and The Subject in Question (Routledge). He is editor of Hegel’s Critique of Kant (OUP), Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings (Routledge) and co-editor (with Antony Flew) of A Dictionary of Philosophy (Macmillan). He has been Visiting Professor at universities in France, Germany, Japan, Macedonia, the Netherlands, and the United States. Colleagues from Oxford and around the world have recently authored a Festschrift for Stephen: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1152588 His writing has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Macedonian, Japanese and Korean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Priest
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Book Drafts to Download
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1. LOGICAL CONCEPTS 12th May 2022 pp 60
2. A PRIORI SUBJECTS 3rd May 2019 pp 160
3. IS THERE FREE WILL? 31st March 2021 pp 220
4. ABSOLUTE INTERIORITY 21st November 2020 pp 160
5. COSMIC QUESTIONS 12th May 2022 pp 220
6. THE REDISCOVERY OF THE SOUL 1ST JAN 2008 pp 120
8. HOW TO FIND YOUR OWN SOUL 18th FEB 2009 pp 50
9. IS NOTHING REAL? NIETZSCHE, AND ZEN
10. KANT'S DEDUCTION 11th April 2012 p 200
11. LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT 30th May 2016 pp 120
12. PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS THEOLOGICAL ANSWERS (2011 Draft) pp 542
13. THE ETERNAL NOW AS THE PRESENCE OF GOD (2019 Draft) pp 170
14. REMARKS ON LOGIC 17th January 2012 pp 350
15. IN AND OUT OF TIME HEGEL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS (2011 Draft) pp 100
16. SUBJECTIVITY 28th JULY 2011 pp 120
18. THE GRAMMAR OF BEING 6th March 2019 pp 120
19. EXISTENCE (2004 Draft and Notes) pp 80
21. ULTIMATE REALITY 2014 14th April 2016 pp 200
22. KANT BY STEPHEN PRIEST 2005 Draft pp 25
23. THE PROBLEM OF BEING SOMEONE 29th March 2019 pp 112
26. BEING AS THE BEING OF GOD pp 220 12th Nov 2009
27. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SOUL pp 150 18th October 2017
28. PROBLEMS IN PHENOMENOLOGY 2011 Draft pp 550
29. META-PHYSICS 12th SEPTEMBER 2011 pp 600
30. PROBLEMS FROM THE PRESOCRATICS (2000 Draft) pp 100
31. THEORIES OF HISTORY (2016 Draft and Notes) pp 80
101. LECTURES ON HEGEL (2014 version) pp 50
102. LECTURES ON SPACE-TIME (2014 version) pp 120
104. SIX LECTURES ON SARTRE (2000 version) pp 18
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