Philosophy

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 represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives.

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.

As the first academic monograph that a Chinese scholar discusses the histories of thoughts and ideas related to the development of digital economics, this book aims to make research from the perspective of the history of ideas and discuss the ideas influencing the development of digital economics and the evolution of related theories and thoughts with the methodology of interdisciplinary research.

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 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 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 aims to "e;digital economics"e; as an inter-discipline research area, by integrating economics, philosophy of technology, computer science and sociology.

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 book, Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation, examines the historical and ongoing influence of Christian ethical thought on taxation, governance, and distributive justice.

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.

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

In this book, Per Bauhn does three things.

The first comprehensive study of the origins, motivations, and methods of Greek doctors who investigated the universe as a whole.

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 approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity.

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.

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity.

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 a systematic and thorough philosophical analysis of the ways in which driving automation crosses path with ethical values.

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 about Ubuntu-loosely translated-I am because we are-or, our common humanity in Zulu, about Unity, and global solidarity.

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

This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism ('No-Self Physicalism') can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview.

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 examines how Turkey's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule.

This book examines the historical development-in practice and theory-of governance in socialist systems.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'.

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.

Ten lies dominate American public life.

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.