Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction
High hopes for global prosperity have given way to crisis, division, and conflict. This book places contemporary threats to American democracy and the rise of authoritarian systems within the context of US history, moral authority, and the need for constitutional balance.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
This book analyzes philosophy, culture, and value from Eastern and Western perspectives. Despite divergent views, it finds a common emphasis on harmony, peace, and unity, showing how both traditions value cultural dialogue.
Functional Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind
This book connects language, mind, and consciousness, focusing on thinkers like Quine, Davidson, and Dennett. Its organizing theme is a contextual approach to meaning that builds on William James’s functional psychology and anticipates a contemporary revival of his work.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
Hegel’s System of Logic
This book presents Hegel’s Logic as a total system where everything, from physics to theology, finds its true place. Following the logic’s own development, it reveals how Logic is “the form of the world” and re-establishes metaphysics as the true theologia—the mind of heaven.
This collection of essays explores the role of experimentation, dissidence, and heterogeneity in philosophy. Critiquing monolithic tendencies, it traces the influence of marginal thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Deleuze, Foucault, and Benjamin.
Kant’s enduring questions call for rethinking him in light of contemporary debates. The essays in this volume range from reason’s critique of itself to the role of feeling in moral judgment, highlighting his significance for the ever-broadening landscape of philosophy today.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
This volume reflects a rich tradition of Kantian thought. Essays rethink Kant’s most controversial themes—freedom, morality, transcendental idealism, radical evil, and revolution—and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
This book explores Environmental Ethics from the Nine Schools of Indian philosophy. It argues that external woes like pollution and climate change are merely manifestations of humanity’s internal disharmony, and that the solution requires a profound internal transformation.
Africa continues to face harsh challenges as a result of colonialism. This volume addresses diverse social-political, moral, and developmental problems, arguing that while they arose from Africa’s encounter with the West, the solutions must be home-grown.
Epistemological Theory in Classical Chinese Philosophy
This book explores the epistemological frameworks of Chinese intellectual history from ancient times to the Song Dynasty. By examining classical texts, it brings to light unique Chinese approaches to knowledge, setting them against Western thought to bridge East and West.
This book explores Eventualism, a metaphysical theory concerning reality and every “anything” that exists. It argues that “anythings” are not just physical things, but also creations of the human mind and artificial intelligence, and provides an analysis of their structure.
Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia
A student quits college on her first day. Ten years later, she gets an imaginary second chance. This book troubles academic barriers through innovative writing, offering multiple entryways to speculate on future educational possibilities for all.
This book calls for a shift from static memories of trauma to changeable modes of remembrance. Through writer Etgar Keret, it shows how transferring Holocaust commemoration from museums to everyday life offers a unique, postmodern approach to coping with historical catastrophe.