Locating and Losing the Self in the World
This collection on comparative philosophy explores locating and losing the self in the world. Essays draw on diverse viewpoints from Kant and Simone de Beauvoir to Nāgārjuna and Nishida Kitarō, examining the self’s engagement with the world.
This book explores philosopher George Santayana’s provocative views on America—a topic no one has yet considered in a serious way. It argues that the impartiality of Santayana’s philosophy, its transcendence of cultural limits, makes it a living philosophy.
Memories and Portraits
Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.
Metaphysics and ontology are fundamental philosophical concerns, yet history has revealed flawed conclusions built on dogma. The essays in this volume tackle this secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing tools for clearing the field of unpalatable items.
These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
A Study on Existence
Bacigalupo develops a deflationist account of existence, suggesting that there is no such thing as a nature of existence awaiting discovery. The authors discussed include Hume, Kant, Frege, the Neo-Meinongians Routley and Parsons, and the free logicians Leonard and Bencivenga.
The Philosophy Clinic
Highlighting the modern movement of ‘philosophical practice’, this collection shows philosophers’ return to the ancient understanding of philosophy as consolation and contemplation. It argues philosophy is a path and issues a living praxis devoted to daily spiritual exercises.
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
Thought Experiments between Nature and Society
What is a thought experiment, and is it useful for philosophy? This collection tackles this hot topic, analyzing classics from The Ring of Gyges to Brain-in-a-Vat. Colleagues of Nenad Miščević share their thoughts, followed by his own comments on their work.
The Crisis in the Humanities
This volume advances transdisciplinarity in order to study the place of the humanities in our society, and challenges the ways that issues which form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses.
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’.
Russell Revisited
Bertrand Russell played a central role in modern philosophy. How do we account for the abiding interest in him? Accessibility. This collection of recent scholarship serves as a testament to the value of Russell’s diverse contributions to challenging philosophical issues.
This volume explores social constructionism, focusing on reality as a communicative action and a strategy for exercising power. It also proposes a new semiotic strategy, “fractal constructionism,” which analyses the interpretative drift of key social constructs.
Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11
These essays engage the metaphysics of substance over eight centuries, shedding light on contemporary disputes and their historical roots. Topics range from the substance ontology of Thomas Aquinas to modern debates on hylomorphism and natural theology.
An assistant for students of Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This volume places Whitehead in historical context, presents an exposition of his philosophy, and explores his influential doctrine of God in comparison with traditional Christian thought.
Declensions of the Self
This work is a collective reflection on the modern self. A bestiary of articles rethinks modern dichotomies: the real and the ideal, self and world. An introspective journey where we are both the spectator and the spectacle—the beast subject to the gaze.
The Future of Aesthetic Experience
Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.
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?”
This book offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to timeless questions. It explores the nature of reality, how we can know it, and our moral obligations using insights from philosophy, religion, science, and psychology from East and West.
The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity
Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.
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