This book explores human relationships from the perspective of phenomenology. More than an abstract academic work, it is essential for those interested in ethics and political philosophy, offering new ways to articulate humanism and justice for scholars and policymakers.
From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
The essays in this volume discuss philosophical theories of mind from the early-modern period, a time unparalleled for originality. Featuring the best contemporary research, these all-new essays examine Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and others.
“Revelations of Character”
In the Essais, Montaigne weighs ancient rhetorical and ethical theories as he develops his own paradoxical and dynamic notion of ethos. This collection of essays explores the ramifications of his quest for more human and humane modes of expression.
Socrates
Socrates made human questions central to rational inquiry, a foundation for European identity. But this view has been challenged by history, faith, and art. Can Socratic philosophy survive these critiques and still sustain political life?
Meaning without Analyticity
This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.
This book identifies a third problem of evil: epistemic evil. It arises when our judgments, through no corrigible defect, lead to undeserved human suffering. Tierno forcefully defends this problem, a groundbreaking challenge to theodicy.
Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2
Drawing on late antiquity and the middle ages, these essays study what types of things exist, the accuracy of our knowledge, the semantics of analogy, and how these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.
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.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
New essays by leading scholars explore how different cultures conceive of art and beauty. Discover how Buddhist, Confucian, and Upanişadic thought shape aesthetics in the East, revealing deep cultural differences and similarities with the West.
An assistant for students of Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This volume places Whitehead in historical context, presents an exposition of his philosophy, and explores his influential doctrine of God in comparison with traditional Christian thought.
This book of political philosophy argues that libertarianism provides more efficient decision-making than any other political order. It links this idea to the theory of knowledge, revealing the connection between how we know and how we are governed.
American and European Values
International scholars consider the intersection of American and European values. They explore cultural sensibilities, key philosophical figures, and movements from pragmatism to existentialism, offering a rich conversation for our increasingly globalized world.
Body and Justice insightfully examines the western woman: her body, sexuality, and the justice she is afforded. How fair is a world where women are forced to conform to beauty standards? It calls for a morality that frees our bodies from oppression.
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.
Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.
Religious Emotions
The role of emotions in religion has received little attention. This volume of research explores ‘religious emotions,’ asking what is distinctive about them and how Christianity made use of human emotional potential. The reader is invited to reflect on their interaction.
Reverence for Life Revisited
This book’s essays re-examine Albert Schweitzer’s life and his “Reverence for Life” philosophy, assessing its relevance for the twenty-first century. Featuring diverse perspectives, including from Jane Goodall, they explore applications to today’s global issues.
The Many Facets of Love
We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.