Philosophy

The humanities and the sciences face challenging times, each in their own way.

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

First published in 2002.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

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Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, The ethics of researching war is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to the extreme violence of the Bosnian war.

With a renewed emphasis on national and homeland security, the United States is once again seeking to balance the needs of the state with both the rights of its citizens as well as those of other nations.

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

How ought we to live with new technologies?

An award-winning sociologist's "e;fascinating and excellent"e; history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek).

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values.

Abortion is arguably the most controversial and divisive moral issue of modern times, but up until now the debate has taken place almost exclusively within a Western cultural, religious and philosophical context.

This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history.

This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition.

George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

'Simultaneous invention' has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science.

Since its publication in 1849, Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience has influenced protestors, activists and political thinkers all over the world.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Starting with simple examples showing the relevance of cutting and pasting logics, the monograph develops a mathematical theory of combining and decomposing logics, ranging from propositional and first-order based logics to higher-order based logics as well as to non-truth functional logics.

Studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with secular philosophy.

Presents a new and comprehensive defense of closure failure that is relevant to a wide variety of epistemic issues.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social movements.

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.

This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958 9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.

Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics.

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics.

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India.

GWF Hegel famously described philosophy as 'its own time apprehended in thoughts', reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world.

The present series of 75 volumes is compiled, edited and arranged encounter wise alphabetical order dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism viz.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

C'est par-delà une méthode phénoménologique qui fait prévaloir la visibilité aux dépens de l'invisible que surgissent quelques lueurs philosophiques nées d'une intention consciente de voir (ou d'entendre) sans se fixer comme projet de maîtriser tout ce qui apparaît, mais en désirant trouver de multiples cohérences dans ce qui est dispersé.

How might we mend the world?

This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language.

Originally published in 1987.

Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe.

Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years.

The Two Selves takes the position that the self is not a "e;thing"e; easily reduced to an object of scientific analysis.

This book is about knowledge and its value.

This 2002 volume offers translations of major works of classic and romantic German aesthetics.