Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Arthur S. Eddington was a prominent scientist famed for confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity and interpreting modern physics for the public. His classic book, The Nature of the Physical World, had a significant influence on the understanding of 20th-century physics.
Dynamic Being
What is dynamic ontology? Dynamic Being examines this and other questions, investigating the theory and application of process-relational being. Specialists in philosophy, biology, computer science, and more suggest fruitful, interdisciplinary approaches.
The Opportunity to Live Well
Traditional success—money, fame, career—won’t provide a good life. So, how can we truly live well? Learn from the lives of Nelson Mandela and others who show that the joyous rewards of living well come from cultivating awareness, passion, empathy, and resilience.
Hylomorphism and Mereology
Mereology is the theory of parts and wholes, while hylomorphism is the doctrine according to which all natural substances consist of matter and form as their essential parts. This volume presents medieval theories of these concepts, articulating their conceptual development.
Caring and Power in Female Leadership
Can philosophical understandings of power and care illuminate roadblocks that disrupt the potential of women in leadership? Borgerson considers leadership challenges by drawing upon debates that pulse through the history of philosophy and into present-day social concerns.
Essays on Power
This book explores European empires between the 15th and 20th centuries. Power changed everything, forcing these empires to choose who they were. This offers a groundbreaking look into the psychology of imperial power: a philosophical work that matters.
This title endeavours to create a general aesthetics to face the problem of mimesis and subordination of art, using the ancient concept of continuity. As such, it is of special interest to readers of aesthetic and critical thinking, and literary and sociocultural scholars.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
While often traced to Descartes, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. This volume studies its treatment in the Medieval Latin West, focusing on Aquinas. It explores how the intellect grasps itself and how transformative self-knowledge leads to virtue, happiness, and fulfillment.
Radical Neo-Enlightenment
This monograph represents a spirited response to the multiple and accelerating crises we face today. contending that we require a “radical neo-Enlightenment” to counter these systemic problems.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
Jennings traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley’s philosophical works, showing how this idea unifies Berkeley’s various phases of philosophical development.
An Introduction to Hanfei’s Political Philosophy
In this first book to make the philosophy of Hanfei available at an introductory level, Schneider introduces key concepts and arguments in his legalist philosophy and contextualizes his thinking within Chinese history and in a comparative approach.
History of Science as a Facilitator for the Study of Physics
Angeloni’s text serves to enhance scientific and technological literacy, by promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education with particular reference to contemporary physics.
For Thomas Aquinas, ethics is not a set of moral precepts but the cultivation of virtues for human flourishing. Natural law, reflecting the eternal, is awakened within us. Crowned by faith, hope, and love, this vision is summed up in the Beatitudes.
This collection of papers on comparative philosophy challenges academic philosophy’s focus on Western thought. By opening a dialogue across cultures, these chapters explore philosophy’s politico-aesthetic dimension, demonstrating the equality of marginalized voices.
From Monophysitism to Nestorianism
This book argues that early orthodoxy was not a linear progression. Instead, the church navigated the narrow strait between Nestorianism and Monophysitism by continually changing sides in the Ecumenical Councils, ultimately outwitting both heresies to forge its own path.
Einstein’s Quantum Error
What is it to be rational? This book argues that rational principles are not absolutes, but are empirically justified. It shows how principles like causality reflect our brain’s evolved structure, which parallels the physical world, and confronts modern attacks on science.
Philosophy and Human Revolution
This book offers a philosophical study of Daisaku Ikeda. Not a religious analysis, it examines his intercultural work, which interfaces Japanese tradition with Western rationality. The author adopts an agnostic suspension to leave a place for philosophy and its arguments.