What is noise and what is it doing to our world? This book is a philosophical investigation of its obnoxious movements. Starting from the statement that ‘noise is nature’, it explores how we try to order it and what happens when it remains in the realm of the obscure or obscene.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
With so much preventable suffering in the world, what does it mean to live ethically today? This collection explores our obligations to humans and other animals, the search for a meaningful life, and the relevance and vitality of ethics today.
On the Ugly
This original collection offers fresh approaches to the concept of ugliness in aesthetics, art, and in contrast with the beautiful. Featuring new papers from diverse scholars, it collects the latest research, making it a key contribution to the growing interest in the field.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
What is open-mindedness and how does it square with personal commitments? This issue is particularly acute when it comes to religious belief, where it can sound like doubt. This collection of essays explores this virtue and its role in the philosophy of religion.
Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism
This volume explores the cultural, social and ethical dimensions of St Gregory Palamas’ works, relating his mystical theology to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and art. Topics include church-state relations and hesychast influences on Byzantine iconography.
Our Human Quest for Unity and Freedom
In the face of planetary crises and possible self-extinction, these essays envision a way toward a viable human future. Drawing on philosophical literature from West and East, they focus on the urgent need to unite humanity under the principle of unity in diversity.
Our Sacred Dimension
This monograph represents an important contribution to the anthropological, philosophical and psychological consideration of mankind in our era, exploring the role of the Sacred in our lives today.
Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy, Wittgenstein and the Concept of Mind
Oxford philosophers sparked a revolution by arguing that psychological expressions do not describe internal states. This study details the anti-cognitivist critique, reconstructs the cognitivist objections to it, and shows how Wittgenstein’s later writings help overcome them.
This book offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to timeless questions. It explores the nature of reality, how we can know it, and our moral obligations using insights from philosophy, religion, science, and psychology from East and West.
This collection of essays explores the paradoxes of freedom and the human condition. We are always faced with the same paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. This is the paradox of the human condition.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
Personal Identity between Philosophy and Psychology
What is personal identity? What makes a person an individual? This book analyses these questions from the dialectical perspective of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and philosophy. It offers a new point of departure and a dynamic vision of identity.
This book explores justice, ethics, and intercultural learning, arguing that cultural diversity is as critical for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. Adopting a pluralistic approach, readers will gain a greater understanding of culture, values, and identity.
This volume addresses phenomenology’s overlooked insights on values, exploring the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. It is distinct for its focus on the ethical and existential dimension, covering thinkers from Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas.
Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.
This analysis of values within Husserlian phenomenology describes our experience of intersubjective values and explores ethics as a practical matter, offering a third phenomenological way beyond the common positivistic and deontological dichotomy.
A collection of essays by international scholars on pluralism and other key concepts for understanding our complex contemporary world. These contributions provide a philosophical analysis of the challenges confronting modern society, politics, and culture.
These philosophical essays cover a wide range of historical and contemporary topics, from the work of thinkers like Parmenides and Wittgenstein to the nature of knowledge and belief. Written over a long career, they are models of philosophical investigation and argument.