What are our ethical commitments to our family and the broader community? These essays provide ethical analyses of issues from same-sex marriage to licensing parents, covering love, sex, marriage, and the influence of technology on family life.
Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, Amir considers philosophy to be a practical discipline.
Varieties of Liberalism
Varieties of Liberalism presents an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary challenges. An international array of scholars addresses pressing questions of free speech, citizenship, justice, and migration through critical perspectives on liberalism.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
The Disembodied Mind
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
Deriving from the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, this volume explores A.N. Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science. The first part concerns Whitehead’s philosophical methodology and the second discusses applications for concepts of Whitehead’s thinking.
Truth and Experience
This title meets contemporary challenges posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past
This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
Slivers of Life
Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview
This collection investigates the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview, an important component of contemporary philosophy. It explores how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives, representing a bold move from academic philosophy to actual human lives.
This book challenges the division between academic and practical philosophy. It offers a melioristic view that rethinks philosophy’s methods, reinvigorates its teaching, and secures its relevance outside the academe by offering original solutions to its contemporary crisis.
The Intelligible World
Understanding Kant’s “pre-critical” philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. This early work is a hidden background, where his great cosmology informs the “thing-in-itself” and provides the ontological framework for his later ethics.
From the Global Ecological Integrity Group, this collection examines governance from the standpoint of integrity: from democracy and Native governance to globalization and human rights to food, water and climate.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
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