Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Most things you ';know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.

This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers.

This book investigates the historical development of Aristotle's perfect syllogism, or demonstration, into the Muslim world.

This book brings together the work of Wilfrid Sellars with work in 20th century phenomenology and 21st century speculative realism in order to think through one of the most important predicaments of contemporary philosophy.

A modern primer to the father of modern philosophyThe father of modern philosophy, Descartes is still one of the most widely discussed philosophers today.

In this unique look at a key figure in the Islamic enlightenment, Samer Akkach examines the life and works of 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641-1731) of Damascus: a contemporary of many major thinkers, scientists, poets, and philosophers of the European Enlightenment.

The father of modern scepticism and perhaps the most important English philosopher, Hume was lauded within his own lifetime as a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment, with his highly original theories of perception, personal identity, causation, politics, morality, and religion.

Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein's later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator.

Dive into the profound and provocative world of Friedrich Nietzsche with "e;Beyond Good and Evil,"e; a philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional morality and thought.

This book re-conceptualizes teaching through an engagement with Jean-Paul Sartre's early existentialist thought.

This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for the complementarity of their mature philosophies as part of a collaborative metatheory of science.

This book brings together the work of Wilfrid Sellars with work in 20th century phenomenology and 21st century speculative realism in order to think through one of the most important predicaments of contemporary philosophy.

This text examines the many transformations in Husserl's phenomenology that his discoveries of the nature of appearing lead to.

The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlstrom emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational.

This book argues that Western philosophy's traditional understanding of Being as substance is incorrect, and demonstrates that Being is fundamentally Relationality.

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science).

This text examines the many transformations in Husserl's phenomenology that his discoveries of the nature of appearing lead to.

The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlstrom emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational.

This book argues that Western philosophy's traditional understanding of Being as substance is incorrect, and demonstrates that Being is fundamentally Relationality.

This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for the complementarity of their mature philosophies as part of a collaborative metatheory of science.

Constructing the Present: An Investigation into Time-Consciousness investigates what time is like for us as subjects and answers the question of how our experiential present comes to be.

This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.

This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.

This book brings together an impressive group of scholars to critically engage with a wide-ranging and broad perspective on the historical and contemporary phenomenon of Zen.

This book focuses on Edmund Husserl's philosophical collaboration with Eugen Fink which took place in the early 1930s, and shows how their disagreement over the nature, origin, and aim of phenomenology led to a crucial divergence on the issue of who was engaging in phenomenology, and with what motivation.

Why do we demand happiness on terms that make happiness impossible?

The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy.

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension.

The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy.

This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers.

This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism.

This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism.

Our society is obsessed with sex - and yet we dont understand it at all.

This book uses contemporary continental philosophy to develop an alternative theory of the superhero to the one currently offered by the comic book industry and comic book studies.

This stimulating book covers all area of the twelfth century Muslim philosopher's life from his transmission of Aristotelian thought to the Western world, to his conflict with the Ash'arite theologians.

The book systematically presents Derrida's views on hospitality, as reflected in his texts and lectures from 1995 until his death in October 2004.

This book extends the contemporary concept of the minimal self by introducing the affective core self.

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) within the Islamic tradition, and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) within the Russian Orthodox Christian tradition.

This book uses contemporary continental philosophy to develop an alternative theory of the superhero to the one currently offered by the comic book industry and comic book studies.

This book gathers essays that introduce the ideological advances in the philosophy of engineering and technology in contemporary China.

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field.

This book re-conceptualizes teaching through an engagement with Jean-Paul Sartre's early existentialist thought.

This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism-methodologically as well as conceptually-from the perspective of cultural pluralism.

This book's overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the forms they take, and how their meanings or content (what is "e;contained"e;) is considered in relation to form-as-container.

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This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue.