The Intellectual Powers

“This is Peter Hacker at his best – an investigation of the cognitive and cogitative powers that quintessentially distinguish us from other animals which is at once painstaking, unsettling, and bracing.”

—A.W. Moore, St Hugh’s College Oxford

“A meticulous, illuminating, and brilliantly sustained exercise in conceptual cartography. This is Peter Hacker writing at the height of his formidable powers and displaying his unerring ability to uncover philosophical pretension and confusion.”

—John Cottingham, University of Reading and Heythrop College, University of London