Functional Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind
This book connects language, mind, and consciousness, focusing on thinkers like Quine, Davidson, and Dennett. Its organizing theme is a contextual approach to meaning that builds on William James’s functional psychology and anticipates a contemporary revival of his work.
This book analyzes philosophy, culture, and value from Eastern and Western perspectives. Despite divergent views, it finds a common emphasis on harmony, peace, and unity, showing how both traditions value cultural dialogue.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction
High hopes for global prosperity have given way to crisis, division, and conflict. This book places contemporary threats to American democracy and the rise of authoritarian systems within the context of US history, moral authority, and the need for constitutional balance.
Post-Truth
In an era of misinformation, this anthology offers a vital resource. Scholars spanning communication, politics, technology, and more explore the challenges of our post-truth age, providing a cornerstone for dialogue and action in confronting this complex phenomenon.
The Philosophy of Chemistry
This volume connects chemistry and philosophy by exploring chemical practice. Chemists and philosophers collaborate to reshape concepts, address current challenges, and foster inventiveness. Prefaced by Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Roald Hoffmann.
Insanity and Genius
For scientists, beauty is truth. But the author sought truths from a different way of knowing—one not of logic, but of expression. This book explores the greatest minds struggling to understand the deepest truths of the human condition.
Our Human Quest for Unity and Freedom
In the face of planetary crises and possible self-extinction, these essays envision a way toward a viable human future. Drawing on philosophical literature from West and East, they focus on the urgent need to unite humanity under the principle of unity in diversity.
This book critiques the regressive and colonial character of global capitalism. It argues that coloniality permeates the contemporary architecture of power, and that commitment to a Eurocentric notion of “progress” leads to the next iteration of the capitalist/colonial order.
A. N. Whitehead was one of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers. His concepts are in a perpetual state of development within contemporary scholarship. This volume probes these modern assessments across education, arts, ethics, community, medicine, psychology, and AI.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
What does it mean to be gendered? This book bridges philosophy and science—from biology to neuroscience—to reveal how nature and nurture forge identity. It unites research on both cisgender and transgender experiences to build a new path toward equity.
A realist polemic against nominalism, relativism, and nihilism. This volume formulates Husserl’s dependence ontology of experience, contrasting realist and nominalist views. It also explores Kant’s and Husserl’s concepts of time and how empirical facts arise from experience.
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Views and Biological Ethics
This book addresses fundamental moral questions through a comparative study of Alasdair MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics. It argues that to understand the complex phenomenon of human morality, both the rational and the biological dimensions of humans must be considered.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought ethics to the forefront. This book explores less-discussed dilemmas—surveillance, conspiracy theories, the moral distress of healthcare workers—examining issues like rationing and privacy through the lens of various ethical models.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
For Friedrich Nietzsche, scepticism is not mere nihilism. His philosophy takes us beyond the ‘death of God’ to a new spiritualization of life, holding out an affirmative spirit of joy in the renewal of our ‘god-creating’ power and will to honour the higher Whole.
In an age of innovation, we must question past educational approaches. This book outlines a learning-focused tactic, explaining how it differs from education and its value for individual growth. It shows how higher education institutions can adapt to a new learning environment.
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.
Homage to Political Philosophy
Flynn offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems.