Interpretation is the medium through which the world becomes thinkable and shaped. This book journeys through domains from alchemy to dark matter and living ecologies, showing how meaning unfolds across time and scale. An invitation for readers who seek to cross boundaries.
Higher Education Ethics
Equip your institution with a robust ethical framework. This guide offers a new typology of higher education ethics, featuring proven decision-making models, case studies, and professional standards for navigating complex global challenges.
Historia
Historia is a series of observations on temporality, the practice of writing history, and the histories all things accumulate. The book does not define historia, but views the term from many angles to refresh the reader’s sense of the historical.
History of Science as a Facilitator for the Study of Physics
Angeloni’s text serves to enhance scientific and technological literacy, by promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education with particular reference to contemporary physics.
Homage to Political Philosophy
Flynn offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems.
How to do Philosophy
Why take Wittgenstein seriously today? This text explores the therapeutic conception of philosophy in his later work. Drawing on his writings, including posthumous publications, it clarifies his problem-specific and person-specific philosophical project.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.
Humanity’s planetary superdominance, a product of transgenerational learning, has caused an ecological crisis. We now face an evolutionary choice about the purpose of education: should we double down on humanism, deconstruct the system, or adopt a holistic biological wisdom?
This book analyzes the rise of Homo Sapiens, from the cosmic conditions of Earth’s birth to the future of our species. It considers the development of civilization, our role on the planet, and what lies ahead: space conquest, AI, and genetic enhancement.
Hume’s Labyrinth
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
Hylomorphism and Mereology
Mereology is the theory of parts and wholes, while hylomorphism is the doctrine according to which all natural substances consist of matter and form as their essential parts. This volume presents medieval theories of these concepts, articulating their conceptual development.
I More than Others
How responsible are we for the world’s suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.
Despite the enduring popularity of the works of Shadhiliyya master Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah, there has been no systematic analysis of his worldview. This book is the first study to highlight the interconnections in his writings, building a new understanding of his Sufism.
A new identity is emerging among Haitian-American youth. Forged by the consciousness of the black American underclass and its street culture, it now challenges the traditional bourgeois values and the Vodou Ethic of their Haitian heritage.
This book analyzes values and identity from philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspectives. Contributors explore the meaning of values, their role in defining self-identity, and how politics and aesthetics affect our moral lives.
In West Africa, military takeovers are fueled by identity politics and discrimination in the distribution of national wealth. This book promotes a sane approach to sharing the national ‘cake’: adopting pragmatism and the Rule of Law to ensure equal participation and opportunity.
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past
This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
This book critiques Kantian universalism, arguing that the complex human condition requires a morality beyond simple binaries. It redefines liberal-pluralism as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.
In Defense of Liberal-Pluralism
This book challenges Kantian universalism, arguing that moral reasoning is bound by paradoxes and irreducible choices. It redefines liberal-pluralism, treating morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.