This book explores Environmental Ethics from the Nine Schools of Indian philosophy. It argues that external woes like pollution and climate change are merely manifestations of humanity’s internal disharmony, and that the solution requires a profound internal transformation.
Africa continues to face harsh challenges as a result of colonialism. This volume addresses diverse social-political, moral, and developmental problems, arguing that while they arose from Africa’s encounter with the West, the solutions must be home-grown.
Epistemological Theory in Classical Chinese Philosophy
This book explores the epistemological frameworks of Chinese intellectual history from ancient times to the Song Dynasty. By examining classical texts, it brings to light unique Chinese approaches to knowledge, setting them against Western thought to bridge East and West.
This book explores Eventualism, a metaphysical theory concerning reality and every “anything” that exists. It argues that “anythings” are not just physical things, but also creations of the human mind and artificial intelligence, and provides an analysis of their structure.
Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia
A student quits college on her first day. Ten years later, she gets an imaginary second chance. This book troubles academic barriers through innovative writing, offering multiple entryways to speculate on future educational possibilities for all.
This book explores Confucian philosophy’s contribution to moral education. It discusses key philosophers and the path to moral development through self-cultivation, comparing Chinese and Western thought to highlight how they can complement and enrich one another on moral ethics.
This book calls for a shift from static memories of trauma to changeable modes of remembrance. Through writer Etgar Keret, it shows how transferring Holocaust commemoration from museums to everyday life offers a unique, postmodern approach to coping with historical catastrophe.
Nietzsche’s Will to Power
Belliotti’s text adds to Nietzschean scholarship in its analysis of the concept of power as preliminary to addressing Nietzsche’s psychological notion of will to power. He argues that it cannot be understood as merely a first-order drive to attain and exert power.
Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony
These essays argue for the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation. Delving into thinkers from Hegel to Wittgenstein, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being—a concept at odds with the mechanistic doxa under which modern science is compelled to operate.
Beauty challenges us to find meaning. This book examines beauty in art and philosophy, from Plato to Van Gogh, arguing it is rationally found and irreducible to aesthetics alone. It explores beauty’s deep spiritual meaning, especially within our post-religious age.
The Life and Ideas of Evangelista Torricelli
Explore the life of Evangelista Torricelli, the 17th-century physicist who fused science with rhetorical elegance. This book analyzes his unique approach to science and his philosophical views, and presents the first annotated English translation of his Academic Discourses.
Anthropological Realism
Ethics lacks a strong theoretical basis and remains parochial as technologies become global. To move beyond unproductive stalemates, this book offers a next-generation theory of hybrid moral realism, promoting a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.
Digitalization and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing our world, but traditional education fails to prepare us for this new reality. A century ago, Alfred North Whitehead developed a new learning cycle approach. This book investigates his philosophy for our time.
This book opposes the dominant materialist view of the universe, which cannot adequately explain conscious phenomena. Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, it argues for a metaphysical idealism where human nature is more spiritual than material.
As T. H. Green enjoys a revival, this book is a useful companion to his thought. It offers a simple exposition of the central themes in his work, including his metaphysics, his moral and political philosophy, and his thoughts on freedom.
Conversations in Philosophy
These essays demonstrate philosophy’s relevance to fundamental human problems. Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries from Africa to America, they explore pressing issues like development, conflict, and apathy, reflecting the vitality of philosophical discourse.
Declensions of the Self
This work is a collective reflection on the modern self. A bestiary of articles rethinks modern dichotomies: the real and the ideal, self and world. An introspective journey where we are both the spectator and the spectacle—the beast subject to the gaze.
via media philosophy
This book records the first formal philosophical conversations between Wesleyan and Roman Catholic voices. Inspired by Pope John Paul II’s call for dialogue, it builds bridges between the two communities, seeking a via media to a holy relationship unto truth.
A distinguished team of philosophers addresses the internalism/externalism debate in language and mind. This volume demonstrates the debate’s significance on a wide range of issues, in a manner that is sophisticated yet accessible to non-specialists.
This volume discusses pluralism and the interplay between religion and politics. As competing religious truths have historically produced violent conflict, and since religion is constitutive of identity, its influence on politics is extremely significant.
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