Metaphorical Imagination
Abdullah tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor in this book. He revisits the epistemology and ontology of evidence and challenges the dualist norms of social research, points to the failings, and flags up directions for researchers who take evidence seriously.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
This book opposes the dominant materialist view of the universe, which cannot adequately explain conscious phenomena. Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, it argues for a metaphysical idealism where human nature is more spiritual than material.
Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11
These essays engage the metaphysics of substance over eight centuries, shedding light on contemporary disputes and their historical roots. Topics range from the substance ontology of Thomas Aquinas to modern debates on hylomorphism and natural theology.
Metaphysics and ontology are fundamental philosophical concerns, yet history has revealed flawed conclusions built on dogma. The essays in this volume tackle this secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing tools for clearing the field of unpalatable items.
Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony
These essays argue for the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation. Delving into thinkers from Hegel to Wittgenstein, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being—a concept at odds with the mechanistic doxa under which modern science is compelled to operate.
In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.
Mind in Nature
This collection of essays by leading scholars bridges Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy. It explores shared topics like creativity, temporality, and holism, concurring on an integral worldview where wholeness and complexity are prevalent in Nature, science, and metaphysics.
Thinking is overrated. We perform best when distracted and under pressure. This book challenges the traditional picture of human action, arguing that our habits and skills allow us to be free and fully rational even when we act mindlessly.
Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy
As mainland China rejected its philosophical heritage, Taiwanese thinkers did more than preserve it—they reinvented it. Engaging with Western thought, they forged complex new systems, creating a vital 20th-century legacy still largely unknown in the West.
The world’s deep-seated problems, from environmental crisis to social injustice, arise from technological society and structures of domination. This book offers guidance, providing a plurality of moral and spiritual perspectives to find reasonable responses.
Morality of the Past from the Present Perspective
This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era’s key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
Movements in Time
In a time of global protest, this book brings together essays to reinterpret time and bring about social change. Breaking from traditional linear notions, it suggests new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.
Natural Law
Amid renewed interest in natural law theory, this volume provides an overview of its history, key authors, and ongoing research. An excellent introduction and reference text, it offers a solid basis for understanding human goods without bias.
In this collection, diverse authors discuss key ethical and metaethical issues and their relation to applied ethics. Expert scholars and young researchers reframe current philosophical debates, stimulating and challenging anyone curious about what we hold valuable.
Nature and Life
Explore contemporary trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. An essential reference for researchers and general readers, this book examines the ethical issues transforming our lives, uniquely focusing on both Western and non-Western approaches.
These essays advance the philosophical understanding of causation, agency, and moral responsibility. The volume investigates important questions: Can causation be perceived? Is a causal relation a necessary condition for moral responsibility?