A dilemma threatens our belief in moral responsibility: if determinism is true, we lack control; if not, our actions are a matter of luck. This collection of new essays confronts this problem, with contributions by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, and others.
Universal Morality Reconsidered
This book bridges the great divide in moral discourse. It argues that universal morality is most successful when grounded in God, and unlike other works, it successfully integrates the newest empirical research from the sciences into a theological framework.
Bernard Williams, one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, argued for refinements in our basic ideas about persons, ethics, and politics. This anthology showcases scholars continuing his reflective and skeptical tradition.
Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation
This book expounds Christianity as the unfolding of Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation. It frees orthodoxy from figurative representation, progressing through Hegelian Logic to a final question: “Christianity without (or within) God?”
In this collection, diverse authors discuss key ethical and metaethical issues and their relation to applied ethics. Expert scholars and young researchers reframe current philosophical debates, stimulating and challenging anyone curious about what we hold valuable.
The Cross and the Star
A conversation between Christian scholar Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig sparked a stunning dialogue. Confronting Nietzsche’s critiques, their “new thinking” resurrected the redemptive cores of faith for the rejuvenation of society.
Event and Decision
This book unites the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead on the concept of the event. For all three thinkers, the event necessitates a radical politics, revealing humanity as constituted by a multiplicious cycle of infinite creation.
Hegel on Recollection
This collection of essays focuses on Hegel’s concept of recollection (Erinnerung). It provides a detailed examination of the role played by recollection within his system, arguing that it is a privileged key to interpreting Hegel’s philosophy.
Willing the Good
Science brings new insights into human agency, but can it be reduced to mere scientific facts? This collection of essays explores non-empiricist views, reconciling the scientific and manifest images of the world to reach a stereoscopic vision of reality.
A Poetics of Homecoming
This study confronts humanity’s state of homelessness by rigorously exploring Heidegger’s thought. Weighing his ideas against scathing critiques from Adorno and Lévinas, it reveals how his discourse on homecoming offers insights for humanity at large.
Bradley and the Problematic Status of Metaphysics
Bradley is a much neglected philosopher. This work undertakes a reassessment of his philosophy, arguing that his metaphysics of the Absolute is the core of his system and the key to understanding all other aspects of his thought.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
As modern thinkers declare the “death of the subject,” this volume searches for new ways of being a self. With renewed attention to religion, these essays guide readers beyond the crises of modernity to resurrect the subject in new and unexpected forms.
The Sublime Today
How is the sublime relevant today? As new media changes aesthetic experience, this volume investigates the sublime in contemporary literature, film, and art, connecting historical theories to pressing questions of gender, politics, and terror.
This book presents an integral philosophy of human being. Amidst a new anthropological renaissance, scholars from different countries explore how knowledge of what we are, what we can do, and what we must become can guide our political and educational programs.
Can philosophy help people with their personal problems? This volume explores philosophical counseling and its relationship to psychotherapy through readings by prominent philosophers and psychologists, asking if such matters are best left to therapists.
Natural Law
Amid renewed interest in natural law theory, this volume provides an overview of its history, key authors, and ongoing research. An excellent introduction and reference text, it offers a solid basis for understanding human goods without bias.
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