Inside Arguments
This collection of essays by the finest specialists provides a decisive input to the study of logic and argumentation theory. The authors clarify the relationship between these concepts, taking stock of the most recent developments. An essential tool.
David Hume’s thought inspired major modern philosophies. This collection of essays by leading researchers demonstrates the “vivacity” of his work for contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of science, political theory, and ethics.
Recalling Hiroshima, this book offers a philosophical analysis of war and peace in the nuclear age. It addresses contemporary threats to humanity and shows the urgent relevance of nonviolence, arguing for a new, peace-promoting global dialogue.
Given the strong connection between Leibniz’s thought and contemporary hermeneutics and its authors, this work explores the philosophical connection of the hermeneutical approach with Leibniz’s concepts.
From Truth and truth
This book explores the complementarity between the literal and spiritual sense of what exists. Through essays on bioethics and the nature of man and woman, it reveals an incredible coherence of meaning, showing how Revelation comes to meet the trembling outreaches of reason.
This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Psychoanalysis
Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.
These essays advance the philosophical understanding of causation, agency, and moral responsibility. The volume investigates important questions: Can causation be perceived? Is a causal relation a necessary condition for moral responsibility?
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
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.
In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.
Dualism, Platonism and Voluntarism
This conference proceedings brings together a host of contemporary thinkers, from Stuart Kauffmann and Ed Vul, on the cognitive side, to Stuart Kauffmann and Henry Stapp. The papers presented here make for a wide-ranging and incisive debate.
Science, Mysticism and Psychical Research
Science, mysticism, and psychical research are thought to be irreconcilable. This book reveals the revolutionary synthesis of mathematician Michael Whiteman, who fused modern physics with ancient mystical texts, informed by a lifetime of psychic experience.
Rethinking Kant
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
Cliché and Organization
Peters adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through his use of film. Juxtaposing philosophers like Deleuze and Heidegger and filmmakers like the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, he shows why managers in organizations are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
Communication Shock
As we become more networked, we must confront the social impact of new technologies. Communication Shock explores these changes and challenges readers to find a balance, maintain individual autonomy, and make informed choices for the life one wishes to live.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
This title discusses the relevance of the work of Hegel and Marx in today’s world, providing the historical context necessary to understand the relation between them, and putting their relevance for the contemporary reader into perspective.
From Truth and truth
Francis Etheredge investigates the interrelationship between reason and sense through a philosophical exploration of “being”, noting that “sense” is subtly sensitive through reason.
From Truth and truth
Examining the answers of reason and faith to the question “What is man?”, these essays explore the incomparable depth of dialogue. Given the critical situations in the world, humanity must choose the wealth of dialogue over a polarized, conflictual existence.