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.
Conflict and Harmony in Comparative Philosophy
In this collection of essays, comparative philosophers explore cross-cultural approaches to conflict and harmony. Spanning Indian, Chinese, Greek, and contemporary philosophy, these papers represent the cutting edge of comparative work.
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.
History of Science as a Facilitator for the Study of Physics
Angeloni’s text serves to enhance scientific and technological literacy, by promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education with particular reference to contemporary physics.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy I
Charting 3000 years of Western thought, this book explores how philosophical ideas emerge from the interplay of culture, cognition, and values. This first volume traces philosophy’s origins to its peak in ancient Greece, with a compelling contrast to classical Chinese thought.
Universal Morality Reconsidered
This book bridges the great divide in moral discourse. It argues that universal morality is most successful when grounded in God, and unlike other works, it successfully integrates the newest empirical research from the sciences into a theological framework.
Cognitive Idealization
This book considers the role of idealization in cognitive matters. Ironically, our recourse to unrealizable ideals is justified by the substantial benefits that flow from them, bringing together lines of thought on the kinship between idealism and pragmatism.
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.
This collection of papers on comparative philosophy challenges academic philosophy’s focus on Western thought. By opening a dialogue across cultures, these chapters explore philosophy’s politico-aesthetic dimension, demonstrating the equality of marginalized voices.
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s omniscience.
Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences
This work restructures the history of ideas and philosophy of culture through the idea of the organon. It provides a new philosophical foundation for the cultural sciences by extracting their main principles and shaping them as symbolic forms.
Berkeley
This book reconstructs Berkeley’s philosophy, arguing his opposition to materialism was not subjective idealism but a common-sense response to the emergence of modern science, offering a fuller, realist portrait of his philosophy of immaterialism.
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.
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.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
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.
Universal Representation, and the Ontology of Individuation (Volume 5
These essays explore ceaseless medieval debates on how we conceive things and the nature of individuation. They consider the metaphysics of universal representation in thinkers from Avicenna and Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Ockham.
Reflections on Society and Academia
Herbst addresses a wide spectrum of concerns within the social sciences, as well as higher education and design and planning issues. His work allows for an easy and holistic assessment of publications that cover various themes and were written during the past two decades.
This book examines Adorno’s mode of critique through his aesthetics. It explores how this focus on aesthetics shapes his readings of knowledge, history, culture, and art to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking.
This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.