The Idea and Values of Europe
From Sophocles’ Antigone to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, this book charts the 2500-year evolution of human rights. It explores the origins of European shared values and assesses their compatibility with a non-European culture and religion such as Islam.
Human annihilation has never been so easy. AI is our most transformative revolution, yet we lack a common moral language to prevent an apocalypse. This book provides the first global bioethical analysis of AI, creating a compelling framework for our shared survival.
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.
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.
This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
Beyond Hope
This book argues for hope as a path beyond facile optimism and weary pessimism. Drawing on Western philosophy and Advaita Vedanta, it suggests that living from the Self, distinct from the ego, reveals a peace and bliss beyond both hope and happiness. A timely and wise book.
Does art need to be beautiful? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans? This volume gathers authors from philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, and more to investigate the most debated aspects of beauty and aesthetic experience.
Dissolving the Gettier Problem
This book dissolves the Gettier problem using Hintikka’s Socratic Epistemology. It treats Gettier’s counterexamples as a game of inquiry where agents use questioning and strategy to determine what they know, going beyond analysis to focus on actual problem-solving.
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.
Aesthetics of Presence
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
Toward a New Foundationalism
Contemporary philosophy is breached. Its dominant Anglo-American and Continental branches both deny that philosophy has a central foundation. This book proposes a new foundationalism, discovering a hidden “ruling image” that animates the thought of major figures on both sides.
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 investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson
While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.
This volume celebrates life writing, where individuals overcome trauma to find joy. Scholars explore personal narratives—testimonies, diaries, and letters—that challenge sociocultural issues like migration and discrimination while affirming our need for human connection.
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.
Yoga and Alignment
This accessible look at yoga philosophy and psychology follows the eight limbs of yoga from foundational ethics to the highest states of consciousness. Based on 30 years of research, it connects the insights of this ancient tradition to the challenges we face today.
Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the origin of everything? For centuries, theology and metaphysics sought answers. Today, physics and cosmology join the search for a theory of everything. The papers in this volume offer contributions to this ultimate debate.
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia
Omar Khayyam’s validity as a poet is highly debated. This book focuses on 100 quatrains authenticated by Persian authorities. To bring out Khayyam’s true voice, this unique bilingual volume provides the Persian originals side-by-side with literal English translations.
Political correctness cripples public debate, limits knowledge, and threatens democracy. This book shows how meritocracies have become contaminated by the propaganda of cultural wars. Why are media and teachers still following old instructions to control damage?