Philosophy

People relish novelty, enjoy convenience, and are prone to distraction.

This book develops and defends a subjectivist account of meaning in life, which holds that the only place that meaning can ever be found is in the way we experience the living of our lives.

Phenomenological approaches to sounds, noises, voices, and music traditionally privilege methods that center visual perception.

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process.

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers' recuperated factories, over the past 40 years.

John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic.

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process.

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the study of hypnosis based on an innovative epistemological approach called De-sign.

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

'What our world needs most of all today is love.

This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became "e;the man who defined truth"e;.

This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions-fear, pity, and disgust-that persons with atypical bodies often evoke in their non-disabled peers.

This book offers a historical analysis as well as contextual management strategy on Nigeria's lingering ethno-religious conundrums.

People relish novelty, enjoy convenience, and are prone to distraction.

This book consists of well-chosen legal terms in ancient China, in an effort to delineate the panorama of rule-of-law evolution in China.

Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe.

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Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future?

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.

When first published in 1958, The Inward Morning was ahead of its time.

Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J.

This book is a comparative study of the laws and regulations involving legal and ethical issues related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular for self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles (AVs).

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future?

This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.

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This book provides an original and challenging perspective of religions as abstract complex adaptive systems, using an interdisciplinary approach to try to understand what religions are and how they function, two fundamental issues which, despite an intense struggle from several fields, have not yet been resolved.

This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century.

This edited book explores the process of creating using the seven C's of creativity framework.

This book proposes a reconsideration of the intertwinement of time, meaning, and the piecemeal unfolding of things.

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

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis.

This edited volume is an inquiry into the ethics of mathematics education, and to a lesser extent, the ethics of mathematics.

Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer.

The book systematically presents Derrida's views on hospitality, as reflected in his texts and lectures from 1995 until his death in October 2004.

Chapters “Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters” and "e;Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This book addresses the complex challenges and responsibilities involved in preserving humanity's collective heritage.

This book explores the crucial role of interpretation in medical radiology and beyond, emphasizing its pervasive influence on medical knowledge.

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens.

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens.