The tantric Buddhist traditions emerged in India beginning in the seventh century CE and flourished there until the demise of Buddhism in India circa the fifteenth century.
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death.
In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature.
The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date.
The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date.
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death.
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death.
In a world overwhelmed by information, opinions, and constant mental activity, Thermodynamics of Thought offers a radically different perspective: the mind does not suffer because it thinks too much—it suffers because thought does not get to finish.
Vivimos en la era de la técnica, lo que no solo tiene que ver con pantallas y redes globales, sino con algo mucho más profundo relativo al sentido de la misma existencia.
En este profundo ensayo, Claudia Paganini desarrolla una tesis filosofica muy controvertida: por primera vez el ser humano, en vez de limitarse a imaginar un dios, lo ha creado.
Pinpoints how "e;dogwhistles"e; and "e;figleaves,"e; two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racismIt is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories.
KI und AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), ihr menschenverachtendes Weltbild und unsere ZukunftElon Musk und Donald Trump kündigen massenhaft Verwaltungsmitarbeitern, um einen KI-Staat zu errichten.
Combining structural analysis, historical enquiry, and intertextual reading, this book offers a fresh interpretation of one of antiquity's most enduring myths, autochthony, and provides a model for studying myths as living processes of cultural imagination.
Where justice, with its emphasis on individual claim-rights, falls short of justifying our ethical responsibility to care for those suffering from illnesses that do not neatly qualify as unjust, love (agape) provides the missing moral foundation.
This collection brings together an international range of specialists to explore the multi-faceted ways in which twentieth-century French philosophy affirms the fundamental importance of transformation.
Drawing from local archives alongside national and international records, this book argues that warfare was the defining feature of government and politics in Scotland for the two decades following the death of James V.
This collection brings together an international range of specialists to explore the multi-faceted ways in which twentieth-century French philosophy affirms the fundamental importance of transformation.
Drawing from local archives alongside national and international records, this book argues that warfare was the defining feature of government and politics in Scotland for the two decades following the death of James V.
This book redirects our attention to a group of thinkers whose project of rethinking difference and alterity assumes new critical significance at the current juncture.
This book redirects our attention to a group of thinkers whose project of rethinking difference and alterity assumes new critical significance at the current juncture.