Philosophical Imagination
This book shows how ancient philosophers used thought experiments to convey theories and promote scientific knowledge. By analyzing historical examples like Plato’s Ring of Gyges, it provides new insights into how philosophical hypotheses helped promote scientific discovery.
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.
How can we live philosophically? Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Plato, these essays probe life’s great questions through aesthetics, poetry, and existentialism. This challenging, interdisciplinary guide explores ethics, meaning, and philosophy as a way of life.
Philosophical-Political Hecate-isms
Proposing a new conceptual category in philosophical and political discourse resulting from the mechanisms of the rule of three, this publication will appeal to the wider academic community interested in political science, postmodern philosophy, and cultural studies.
Recalling Hiroshima, this book offers a philosophical analysis of war and peace in the nuclear age. It addresses contemporary threats to humanity and shows the urgent relevance of nonviolence, arguing for a new, peace-promoting global dialogue.
Philosophy and Human Revolution
This book offers a philosophical study of Daisaku Ikeda. Not a religious analysis, it examines his intercultural work, which interfaces Japanese tradition with Western rationality. The author adopts an agnostic suspension to leave a place for philosophy and its arguments.
Philosophy and Mental Health in the Age of Nihilism
This book explores the interconnections of nihilism, anxiety, and authenticity in East Asian and Western philosophies, religions, and psychotherapies. An innovative, cross-cultural study, it re-examines Buddhist and Daoist concepts to argue for an authentic no-self.
Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions
From Greco-Roman Antiquity, philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. These essays explore how the three Abrahamic religions interacted on the common ground of Greek philosophy, creating similar patterns of thought on crucial concepts.
A philosophical exploration of desire and the divine Ground of being through Eric Voegelin’s ‘flow of presence.’ Learn how anxiety impedes this flow and how living meditatively in the present can restore it, guided by Voegelin, Goethe, and Iris Murdoch.
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.
Philosophy in Ireland
With contributions from leading thinkers, this volume explores philosophical developments in Ireland. It reveals a tradition defined by dialogue—with its past, with global debates, and with society—and argues that this continued engagement is vital for its future.
Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Our view of Plato and Aristotle was forged in Late Antiquity, a tumultuous era of Roman decline and Christian ascent. Discover how this clash of worlds shaped our modern concepts of time, the body, and death, laying the foundations of our own world.
This book studies modern civil law through philosophical categories. It analyzes the dynamics between the internal and external, vertical and horizontal, and symmetry and asymmetry to reveal how legal subjects interact in a state of equilibrium.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
This volume represents the proceedings of the 4th Weber Graduate Philosophy Conference held in 2014. Contributions include research on Wittgenstein’s Proposition, self-directed irony, and an analysis of metaphors.
Existential questions persist, but now span two worlds: the physical and cyberspace. Amid constant tension between humans and AI-based life forms, this book develops a new philosophy: Existentialism 2.0. Humanity must find its place in the future, or risk losing its essence.
Can philosophy help people with their personal problems? This volume explores philosophical counseling and its relationship to psychotherapy through readings by prominent philosophers and psychologists, asking if such matters are best left to therapists.
While quantum mechanics is probabilistic, classical physics makes definite predictions. This book argues these predictions can be explained by the mathematics of special relativity, and explores the profound philosophical consequences. No advanced math or physics is required.
This volume explores Platonic philosophy as a living force throughout history, from the Hellenistic age to the modern world. These studies approach Plato’s dialogues from new perspectives, shedding new light on ancient problems and the original, ever-surprising author himself.
This critique presents Plato’s leading doctrines in close connection with the man himself. It explores the relationship between author and text, with chapters on Socrates, Plato’s aesthetics, The Republic, and the Sophists.