Topics in philosophy

The unmatched technological achievements in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computer science, and related fields over the last few decades can be considered a success story.

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 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 offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity.

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 examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

This book delves into the profound question of whether moral philosophy rests upon metaphysical foundations.

Ireland's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service.

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 is a first attempt to unify and explain, through the language of pure mathematics called categories and sheaves, the mechanism of mental activities.

This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications.

This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society.

This book provides an integrative interdisciplinary view of how intellectual and moral virtues are understood in two separate practices, science and music.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

This book presents a new approach to computational musicology in which music becomes a computational entity based on human cognition, allowing us to calculate music like numbers.

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers.

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora.

This book illustrates the design, development, and evaluation of personalized intelligent tutoring systems that emulate human cognitive intelligence by incorporating artificial intelligence.

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

This book offers an easy-to-read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in doctor-patient relationships in a typical low- and middle-income country setting in India, examining in detail the reasons for erosion of trust and providing guidance on potential research areas in the field.

This book addresses the issue of cognitive semantics' aspects that cannot be represented by traditional digital and logical means.

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment.

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of unauthorised acts of character merchandising.

This book, achieved in cooperation with the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA), focuses on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and shifts toward approaching the reconciliation process as an inter-, trans- and multidisciplinary field.

This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges - the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book combines the fundamentals of industrial organization theories based on microeconomic foundations, applied econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics in undertaking a comprehensive review of reforms of the power sector and its impact on industrial and socio-economic performance.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life.

This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa.

In this book, Per Bauhn does three things.

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

This book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word 'representations' from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its use in the description of so-called mental and neural representations in the mind and in the brain.

This book examines how fashion intersects with political expression in the United States and across the globe.

This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Church's traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marriage, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersexual (LGBTQI) inclusivity in light of Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology and modern sociology.

This book is a socio-philosophical journey across several aspects of our society's focus on individual freedom, taking cues from some of the most prominent thinkers of our time.

This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food System conference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system.

This book takes an empirically grounded perspective on research in values, intimacy and sexuality, among other topics in psychology, to highlight the importance of searching for human subjectivity in its diversity, plurality and self-generativity.

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

This book presents the Ph.

This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation.

This book offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity.

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 pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition.