Christopher Mole is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In addition, he teaches in the Programme in Cognitive Systems, also at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology (2011).

The Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought brings insights from complexity and mathematics to bear on some fundamental metaphysical questions about the mind, with fresh and original results. It will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, cognitive science and those interested in the application of computational and complexity theory models to understanding the mind.

Part 1: The Complexity of Intelligence 1. The Neglect of Noology 2. The Philosophical Relevance of Theoretical Computer Science 3. The Explanatory Consequences of Imperfection 4. Sources of Intractability Part 2: Temporal Orientation 5. The Psychological Arrow of Time 6. Temporally Chiral Attitudes 7. Episodic and Semantic Memory Part 3: A Point of Local Metaphysics 8. Metaphysical Questions 9. The Modal Signature of Ontological Dependence 10. Leveraging the Mind 11. An Argument for Dynamic Foundations Part 4: The Perdurance of Intelligent Thought 12. Epistemic Conduct 13. Encountering Events 14. Action as an Epistemic Encounter 15. Inference as an Epistemic Encounter 16. Encountering Unrepresented Facts 17. Encounters First 18. The Achievement of Intelligence. Index