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.
Epistemological Theory in Classical Chinese Philosophy
This book explores the epistemological frameworks of Chinese intellectual history from ancient times to the Song Dynasty. By examining classical texts, it brings to light unique Chinese approaches to knowledge, setting them against Western thought to bridge East and West.
Quining and Unquining Qualia
This book challenges the claim that qualia—our subjective sensations—are illusions. It proposes that qualia are essential aspects of consciousness that lie beyond science’s reach, and are what distinguish human experience from artificial intelligence.
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.
Gratitude and Palliative Care
Surprisingly, gratitude persists even at the end of life. This book explores profound gratitude in palliative care. Blending clinical experience and philosophy, it examines the transformative power of gratitude for patients, families, and professionals amidst serious illness.
In West Africa, military takeovers are fueled by identity politics and discrimination in the distribution of national wealth. This book promotes a sane approach to sharing the national ‘cake’: adopting pragmatism and the Rule of Law to ensure equal participation and opportunity.
The Antisocial Mind
Antisocial behavior is a result of biology, not a choice. This book argues that since the brain produces behavior unconsciously, antisocial individuals are not accountable. They should be treated, not punished, and prisons converted into rehabilitation centers.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
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.
Classical Phenomenology Applied to Gender Identity
Uncover the gendered human being through Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. This book offers intellectual tools to grasp our existential reality and details the fierce intellectual clash between former colleagues Husserl and Heidegger.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.
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.
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.
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.
What does emancipation mean in the contemporary moral and political landscape? From what can we free ourselves? This collection investigates emancipation through the eyes of the ethicist, re-examining the concept within different philosophical traditions.
In a world of numerous challenges, the search for meaning and purpose is an important pursuit. This book offers diverse perspectives on the connections between meaning and service, helping readers integrate them into their own personal and professional life.
A Logician’s Perspective on the Relation Between the Mind and Body
A recognized authority on modal logic examines the supervenience of the mental on the physical—the thesis that any mental difference requires a physical one. From a logician’s point of view, he questions not so much the truth as the significance of the supervenience thesis.
The Ethics of Care in Times of Social and Moral Upheaval
Taking care means tending to our loved ones, ourselves, and the world. But in times of crisis, emergency scenarios and frenetic social changes strain our motivation to care. Do these challenges have the power to undo our sensitivities to caring for someone or something else?
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.
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.