Philosophy – Page 15 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

African Musical Aesthetics

By: John Murungi

£39.99

In the West, philosophy is confined to the intellect and music to emotion. This book shows how African musical aesthetics makes either domain the location for the other, affirming a unified sense of being human and registering us as members of nature.

Experience, Interpretation, and Community

Themes in John E. Smith’s Reconstruction of Philosophy

Edited By: Vincent M. Colapietro

£39.99

John Edwin Smith recovered the voice of philosophy, showing its relevance to contemporary life. He not only anticipated key philosophical developments but also pointed the way beyond intellectual impasses. The essays in this volume reveal his wisdom for our world.

Computing and Philosophy in Asia

Edited By: Soraj Hongladarom

£39.99

This collection explores the relationship between computing and philosophy, from AI and ethics to how computers relate to human lives within specific cultures. It breaks new ground by highlighting the cultural dimensions of these issues, particularly in Asia.

Religion After Kant

God and Culture in the Idealist Era

Edited By: Paolo Diego Bubbio, Paul Redding

£39.99

After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

Being Amongst Others

Phenomenological Reflections on the Life-world

Edited By: Eric Chelstrom

£39.99

Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.

Subjectivity and the Social World

A Collection of Essays around issues relating to the Subject, the Body and Others

Edited By: Stephen Burwood, Tom Feldges, Josh N.W. Gray

£39.99

Even as science reveals the brain's workings, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain remains open. What is a subject and how does it interact with others? This book provides innovative answers on subjectivity and the social world.

Even as science reveals the brain’s workings, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain remains open. What is a subject and how does it interact with others? This book provides innovative answers on subjectivity and the social world.

Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy

Integrating Critical Thinking and Philosophy into Psychotherapy

By: Elliot D. Cohen

£39.99

We upset ourselves by deducing destructive conclusions from irrational premises. This book presents Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), a guide to using logic and philosophy to refute these fallacies, overcome anxiety, depression, and anger, and attain happiness.

Paradigms and Perspectives on Value and Reality

Edited By: Chandana Chakrabarti

£39.99

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.

Beyond Rationality

Contemporary Issues

Edited By: Rom Harré, Carl Jensen

£39.99

Scholars explore irrationality in our complex world, examining such puzzles as why citizens support dictatorships, how terrorists “reason,” and why rational people make irrational choices.

Shadowlines

Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia

Edited By: Develeena Ghosh

£39.99

Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.

An [Un]Likely Alliance

Thinking Environment[s] with Deleuze/Guattari

Edited By: Bernd Herzogenrath

£39.99

This study explores 'environment' and 'ecology' in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

The Future of Aesthetic Experience

Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Beauty, Ugliness, and the Rest

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.

The Knowledge Argument and Phenomenal Concepts

By: Luca Malatesti

£39.99

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don't know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don’t know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

Sartre in Search of an Ethics

By: Paul Crittenden

£39.99

Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.

Knowing and Being

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

Edited By: Tihamér Margitay

£39.99

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist's passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume's critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Alex Hall, Gyula Klima

£39.99

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.

The Body Unbound

Philosophical Perspectives on Politics, Embodiment and Religion

Edited By: Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ola Sigurdson, Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir

£39.99

A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment, and religion confronts notorious contemporary issues, from suicide bombing to biopolitics. Contributors uncover resources to unbind a body which has been doubly bound by history, law, and culture.

Kierkegaard and the Political

Edited By: Alison Assiter

£39.99

Kierkegaard’s focus on individuality seems irrelevant to the political sphere. This book argues the opposite, revealing how his ideas on self-choice, passion, and love are not only relevant, but highly significant for political thought and commitment.

Gift and Economy

Ethics, Hospitality and the Market

Edited By: Eric R. Severson

£39.99

Is a pure gift truly possible? The powerful forces of economy can corrupt every effort to give. This volume takes up Jacques Derrida’s challenge to investigate the gift, exploring an excess that cannot be explained by the calculus of exchange and power.

Descartes and the Modern

Edited By: Gordon McOuat, Neil Robertson, Tom Vinci

£39.99

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes's role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes’s role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.