This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.
Kierkegaard’s focus on individuality seems irrelevant to the political sphere. This book argues the opposite, revealing how his ideas on self-choice, passion, and love are not only relevant, but highly significant for political thought and commitment.
Knowing and Being
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s omniscience.
Thomas Hill Green’s work on ‘the common good’ provides the means to evaluate the conduct of political establishments. One of the most important contributions to political philosophy by any English philosopher, it continues to fuel lively debate today.
Given the strong connection between Leibniz’s thought and contemporary hermeneutics and its authors, this work explores the philosophical connection of the hermeneutical approach with Leibniz’s concepts.
This book of political philosophy argues that libertarianism provides more efficient decision-making than any other political order. It links this idea to the theory of knowledge, revealing the connection between how we know and how we are governed.
Life and Mind
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
Science cannot tell us life’s meaning, and belief limits our freedom to learn from reality. To those who do not surrender their right to decide for themselves, life offers a unique opportunity to apply their insights and unlock the mind from its own beliefs.
This volume celebrates life writing, where individuals overcome trauma to find joy. Scholars explore personal narratives—testimonies, diaries, and letters—that challenge sociocultural issues like migration and discrimination while affirming our need for human connection.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
Locating and Losing the Self in the World
This collection on comparative philosophy explores locating and losing the self in the world. Essays draw on diverse viewpoints from Kant and Simone de Beauvoir to Nāgārjuna and Nishida Kitarō, examining the self’s engagement with the world.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
This book offers philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation at work. Following Hannah Arendt, it addresses the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
Manufacturing Inhumanity
As we embrace technocracy, we become the “anthrobot”—humans imitating machines that imitate us. This book uncovers the devastating cultural and psychological costs of this dehumanizing cycle, a crisis spreading through the developed world.
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.
Matter in Marx
Was Marx truly a “materialist”? This book argues that the more interesting question is what kind he developed. It provides a surprising answer: a materialism without matter. On this basis, new light is shed on the base-superstructure analogy, progress, and political action.
Meaning without Analyticity
This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.
Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology
This author-meets-critics volume evaluates Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty. Pasnau presents the history of epistemology as a gradual lowering of expectations for certain knowledge, concluding that contemporary epistemology is now estranged from its tradition.
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