Higher Education Ethics
Equip your institution with a robust ethical framework. This guide offers a new typology of higher education ethics, featuring proven decision-making models, case studies, and professional standards for navigating complex global challenges.
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.
Amidst a global collapse of confidence in inefficient democracies, this book explores new political possibilities. Cyber-societies use big data and algorithms to challenge expired systems, offering the first e-political models for resolving our global chaos.
In a technology-driven world, our devices are profoundly transforming us. This book explores how technology shapes our bodies—from hormones and brain organization to immune function—unveiling the resulting addictions, disorders, and major societal shifts.
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.
Seeds of Liberty, Justice, Peace, and Democracy in Early America
Amid widespread religious and political bigotry, William Penn, a Quaker, dared to bring relief to the suffering. He provided a safe haven in early America where liberty, justice, peace, and democracy ruled, sowing seeds that became the basis for the US Constitution.
While Derrida is often portrayed as a critic of logocentrism, this book’s central premise is that he implicitly affirmed its necessity. It explores this affirmation of logocentrism as a stable foundation for meaning that can be revised to create new possibilities.
What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic?
Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.
In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.
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.
Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.
This book details the struggle for democracy and justice in Brazil. After popular governments lifted millions from poverty, a conservative movement led to a decline in rights. This book advocates for a new period of full democracy, respect for the rule of law, and social justice.
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.
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.
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.
In an age of innovation, we must question past educational approaches. This book outlines a learning-focused tactic, explaining how it differs from education and its value for individual growth. It shows how higher education institutions can adapt to a new learning environment.
To venture into the uncharted world of aesthetics is to explore the cosmos and blaze a trail to the self. This book provides insights into how works about aesthetics are also works reflective of the self, with endless possibilities of being.
For Friedrich Nietzsche, scepticism is not mere nihilism. His philosophy takes us beyond the ‘death of God’ to a new spiritualization of life, holding out an affirmative spirit of joy in the renewal of our ‘god-creating’ power and will to honour the higher Whole.
How can we live philosophically? Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Plato, these essays probe life’s great questions through aesthetics, poetry, and existentialism. This challenging, interdisciplinary guide explores ethics, meaning, and philosophy as a way of life.
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Views and Biological Ethics
This book addresses fundamental moral questions through a comparative study of Alasdair MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics. It argues that to understand the complex phenomenon of human morality, both the rational and the biological dimensions of humans must be considered.
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