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.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
Bradley and the Problematic Status of Metaphysics
Bradley is a much neglected philosopher. This work undertakes a reassessment of his philosophy, arguing that his metaphysics of the Absolute is the core of his system and the key to understanding all other aspects of his thought.
A Poetics of Homecoming
This study confronts humanity’s state of homelessness by rigorously exploring Heidegger’s thought. Weighing his ideas against scathing critiques from Adorno and Lévinas, it reveals how his discourse on homecoming offers insights for humanity at large.
Willing the Good
Science brings new insights into human agency, but can it be reduced to mere scientific facts? This collection of essays explores non-empiricist views, reconciling the scientific and manifest images of the world to reach a stereoscopic vision of reality.
Hegel on Recollection
This collection of essays focuses on Hegel’s concept of recollection (Erinnerung). It provides a detailed examination of the role played by recollection within his system, arguing that it is a privileged key to interpreting Hegel’s philosophy.
Event and Decision
This book unites the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead on the concept of the event. For all three thinkers, the event necessitates a radical politics, revealing humanity as constituted by a multiplicious cycle of infinite creation.
This collection takes the pulse of current Kantian scholarship, featuring papers from a new generation alongside established scholars. These essays rethink Kant, tackling controversial themes from moral constructivism to his alleged racism and contemporary influence.
The Cross and the Star
A conversation between Christian scholar Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig sparked a stunning dialogue. Confronting Nietzsche’s critiques, their “new thinking” resurrected the redemptive cores of faith for the rejuvenation of society.
In this collection, diverse authors discuss key ethical and metaethical issues and their relation to applied ethics. Expert scholars and young researchers reframe current philosophical debates, stimulating and challenging anyone curious about what we hold valuable.
Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation
This book expounds Christianity as the unfolding of Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation. It frees orthodoxy from figurative representation, progressing through Hegelian Logic to a final question: “Christianity without (or within) God?”
Bernard Williams, one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, argued for refinements in our basic ideas about persons, ethics, and politics. This anthology showcases scholars continuing his reflective and skeptical tradition.
Thinking is overrated. We perform best when distracted and under pressure. This book challenges the traditional picture of human action, arguing that our habits and skills allow us to be free and fully rational even when we act mindlessly.
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.
A dilemma threatens our belief in moral responsibility: if determinism is true, we lack control; if not, our actions are a matter of luck. This collection of new essays confronts this problem, with contributions by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, and others.
This collection of essays presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Scholars offer surprising new angles, viewing Sartre through Pop-Art, jazz, and dialogues with figures like Dennett, Badiou, and Genet.
A Different Society Altogether
What is society? Arguing that sociology has become entrenched in an unwarranted anthropocentrism, this book suggests solutions based on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Guattari to reinvigorate the discipline and provide better analytical tools.
Beyond Superlatives
A new generation of scholars applies Whitehead’s philosophy to “superlatives”—valued concepts like truth, novelty, care, and love. By deconstructing these ideas, the essays release an invitation of possibility, extending Whitehead’s thought in novel directions.
Hume’s Labyrinth
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
This book critiques Kantian universalism, arguing that the complex human condition requires a morality beyond simple binaries. It redefines liberal-pluralism as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.