Philosophy

The topic of certitude is much debated today.

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

This book offers a new way of approaching Schopenhauer by investigating the links between his philosophical practice and his aesthetics.

Although abstract principles alone cannot guide action, they can be combined to shape good practical judgement and change the world.

A new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition in philosophy has recently focused on critical, societal challenges, such as the silencing and questioning of the credibility of oppressed groups, the political polarization that threatens the good functioning of democratic societies across the globe, or the moral and political significance of gender, race, or sexual orientation.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "e;truth"e; in politics has become a game of interpretations.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian- l ism are formally incoherent.

This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

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This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Ganze denken" verfügbar.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential, controversial and widely-read philosophers of the twentieth century.

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world in which we live.

By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking.

In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J.

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds.

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning.

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues.

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy.

In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism

The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity.

If we see ourselves as Earth rather than Earth as existing for us our perspective is transformed.

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history.

The first volume on Schelling in English exploring the study of the history of philosophy and core systematic philosophical issues.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardTogether we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own.

US foreign policy during the Cold War has been analysed from a number of perspectives, generating large bodies of literature attempting to explain its origins, its development and its conclusion.

This book examines aspects of Western psychological and educational theory in relation to educational practice around the world, and considers the extent to which current understandings are truly applicable to a range of diverse settings.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials.

In this work I have endeavoured to see Berkeley in his contemporary setting.

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.

Originally published in 1949, this book covers both psychological and sociological aspects of moral life in Western society in the first half of the 20th Century and the historical influences on its thinking and way of behaviour.

A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studiesSpeaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices.

In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic League.