Analogies and Models in Science and Theology
This book uses Hesse’s Network Model of Theory to debunk scientism and argue for the indispensability of socio-cultural and theological values in the search for objective knowledge. It shows how both science and theology rely on interpretation, models, and metaphor.
Anthropological Realism
Ethics lacks a strong theoretical basis and remains parochial as technologies become global. To move beyond unproductive stalemates, this book offers a next-generation theory of hybrid moral realism, promoting a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.
Applied Logotherapy
This monograph is a seminal contribution to applied and clinical logotherapy and existential analysis which draws on Dr Viktor Frankl’s Viennese School of philosophical psychology, from therapeutic techniques, to the mass neurotic triad of aggression, addiction, and depression.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
Aquinas and Us (Volume 18
This volume considers the contemporary relevance of Aquinas’ thought in metaphysics, natural theology, physics, and philosophy of mind. Chapters intersect with key modern debates, interpreting his physics in light of contemporary findings and his account of human self-awareness.
Aristotelian Metaphysics as a Unifying Paradigm for 21st Century Science
This book updates Aristotle’s foundational principles to remedy the fragmentation of knowledge. It provides a rational framework and common language for all, seeking answers to the question “why?,” not just “how?”, creating a unified approach to knowledge.
For millennia, philosophy has failed to define art. This searching critique reveals why and proposes a new philosophy, demonstrating that art is quintessentially involved in the meaning of life, our impulse for self-knowledge, and understanding the human condition.
Art and the Technosphere
This book investigates contemporary art’s new status. From caves to digital simulations, art no longer just represents ideas—it constructs worlds. The question is no longer “what” art is, but how we determine the difference between the aesthetic object and artificial life.
Arthur Danto
This original monograph presents Arthur Danto’s aesthetic theory as part of his larger philosophical system. For the first time, his themes are viewed as a whole, placed in the context of his broader commitments to action, knowledge, and metaphysics.
Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Arthur S. Eddington was a prominent scientist famed for confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity and interpreting modern physics for the public. His classic book, The Nature of the Physical World, had a significant influence on the understanding of 20th-century physics.
Arthur Schopenhauer
See Schopenhauer the man through 24 letters to his dedicated apostle, David Asher. They reveal the philosopher’s 30-year struggle for recognition in a Germany dominated by Hegelian thought, and the ultimate triumph of a thinker who had long been ignored.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
Astrobiology and Humanism
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
This volume explores posthumanism’s challenges in artistic expression and the humanities. It asks whether posthumanism is an expansion of humanism or a transcendence. Authors from diverse backgrounds offer a varied perspective on this critical contemporary question.
Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book reconstructs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. It proposes the Reconstructive Normative Simulation (RNS) to examine social pathologies by locating deficiencies in the social spheres of our lives.
Becoming Wales
This text explores Welsh identity and culture through an institution that has evolved over twenty-five years. The Assembly/Senedd has incrementally eroded a “democratic deficit,” providing levels of self-determination for a nation in a perpetual state of becoming.
Being Amongst Others
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.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Being, Goodness and Truth (Volume 16
This volume considers Aquinas’s virtue ethics, exploring the scholarly debate over inconsistencies in his account. It argues that Aquinas’s understanding of human beings as matter-form composites furnishes a robust moral accounting unavailable to reductive materialist accounts.
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.