Under Any Sky
Under Any Sky showcases the cross-cultural relevance of George Santayana, a leading 20th-century intellectual. International scholars explore the major themes of his thinking, from ontology and skepticism to aesthetics, culture, and social philosophy.
This book identifies a third problem of evil: epistemic evil. It arises when our judgments, through no corrigible defect, lead to undeserved human suffering. Tierno forcefully defends this problem, a groundbreaking challenge to theodicy.
Beyond Nature And Nurture
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.
The Many Facets of Love
We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.
Shifting the Geography of Reason
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Content, Consciousness, and Perception
What sort of thing is the mind? This collection of eleven new essays by today’s most promising philosophers explores mental content, consciousness, and perception, offering a state-of-the-art overview ideal for students and specialists alike.
A distinguished team of philosophers addresses the internalism/externalism debate in language and mind. This volume demonstrates the debate’s significance on a wide range of issues, in a manner that is sophisticated yet accessible to non-specialists.
Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
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.
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.
This collection reevaluates Descartes’ reputation as the “father of modern philosophy.” Essays attend to the impact of “Cartesianism” from the 17th century to today, addressing the character of his originality and the lasting challenges of his thought.
Cognitive Idealization
This book considers the role of idealization in cognitive matters. Ironically, our recourse to unrealizable ideals is justified by the substantial benefits that flow from them, bringing together lines of thought on the kinship between idealism and pragmatism.
This critique presents Plato’s leading doctrines in close connection with the man himself. It explores the relationship between author and text, with chapters on Socrates, Plato’s aesthetics, The Republic, and the Sophists.
This work is a brilliant analysis of German thought that played an important role in the formation of British idealism. It scrutinises the fundamental metaphysical positions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, appealing even to readers of today.
Designed for the general reader, this book explores the larger sweep of Kant’s thought. Wenley’s penetrating yet remarkably clear style makes complex ideas accessible, while its scholarly nature makes the work as useful to the Kant specialist.