The Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the exploration of anomalous phenomena has tremendous implications for the future of intelligent life. This book focuses on the controversial relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and anomalous experience.
Friends and Foes Volume II
This volume investigates the relationship between friendship and conflict from political, sociological and psychological perspectives. Scholars examine how friendships are forged in contexts of conflict and how conflict itself can be transformed into friendship.
The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism (Volume 9
These essays explore medieval debates on singular cognition and nominalist epistemology. From Aquinas and Scotus to Ockham and John Buridan, this volume traces how nominalism leads to “Demon Skepticism” and the “weird” implications of Buridan’s metaphysics.
While quantum mechanics is probabilistic, classical physics makes definite predictions. This book argues these predictions can be explained by the mathematics of special relativity, and explores the profound philosophical consequences. No advanced math or physics is required.
Post-Truth
In an era of misinformation, this anthology offers a vital resource. Scholars spanning communication, politics, technology, and more explore the challenges of our post-truth age, providing a cornerstone for dialogue and action in confronting this complex phenomenon.
Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction
High hopes for global prosperity have given way to crisis, division, and conflict. This book places contemporary threats to American democracy and the rise of authoritarian systems within the context of US history, moral authority, and the need for constitutional balance.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
This book analyzes philosophy, culture, and value from Eastern and Western perspectives. Despite divergent views, it finds a common emphasis on harmony, peace, and unity, showing how both traditions value cultural dialogue.
Functional Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind
This book connects language, mind, and consciousness, focusing on thinkers like Quine, Davidson, and Dennett. Its organizing theme is a contextual approach to meaning that builds on William James’s functional psychology and anticipates a contemporary revival of his work.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
Hegel’s System of Logic
This book presents Hegel’s Logic as a total system where everything, from physics to theology, finds its true place. Following the logic’s own development, it reveals how Logic is “the form of the world” and re-establishes metaphysics as the true theologia—the mind of heaven.
This collection of essays explores the role of experimentation, dissidence, and heterogeneity in philosophy. Critiquing monolithic tendencies, it traces the influence of marginal thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Deleuze, Foucault, and Benjamin.
Kant’s enduring questions call for rethinking him in light of contemporary debates. The essays in this volume range from reason’s critique of itself to the role of feeling in moral judgment, highlighting his significance for the ever-broadening landscape of philosophy today.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
This volume reflects a rich tradition of Kantian thought. Essays rethink Kant’s most controversial themes—freedom, morality, transcendental idealism, radical evil, and revolution—and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy, Wittgenstein and the Concept of Mind
Oxford philosophers sparked a revolution by arguing that psychological expressions do not describe internal states. This study details the anti-cognitivist critique, reconstructs the cognitivist objections to it, and shows how Wittgenstein’s later writings help overcome them.
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