This book propounds a different conception of producing ideas, introducing semiotic reality—signs and sign systems. It shows how the interplay of three realities (the material world, signs, and the human mind) gives rise to new notions like metathinking.
On Being True or False
What sort of thing is true or false? This book argues that the main answers—sentences, beliefs, propositions—are mistaken. The chief truth-bearer is what someone says or writes. Being true or false is rooted in human talk. This broad examination also criticizes linguistics.
Reflections on Russell
This book offers original interpretations of Bertrand Russell’s thought, moving beyond mathematical logic to his philosophy of science and religion. Countering competing views, it shows Russell developed a philosophy incorporating both atheism and spirituality.
Aesthetics of Presence
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
Philosophy and mathematics have been in constant companionship since the days of Plato. This book examines 15 of their interactions, featuring thinkers from Aristotle and Leibniz to modern greats like Einstein and Gödel, in a sampling of the author’s investigations.
Culture at the Crossroads
This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power. It moves beyond conventional conceptions to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dynamics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context.
What is noise and what is it doing to our world? This book is a philosophical investigation of its obnoxious movements. Starting from the statement that ‘noise is nature’, it explores how we try to order it and what happens when it remains in the realm of the obscure or obscene.
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.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
In provocative essays, scholars from Asia explore the dynamic relationship between animation and philosophy. Using thinkers like Deleuze and Guattari, they see animation not as a representation of an idea, but as a philosophical thinking-device in itself.
Action, Intersubjectivity and Narrative Identity
Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s research, this book argues that critical hermeneutics can work as a mediatory inter-discipline. As human sciences like psychoanalysis, sociology, and history grow more fragmented, critical hermeneutics may provide a unified methodological structure.
The legitimacy of the university in Africa is questioned due to its exclusionary and colonial legacy. This volume reimagines the decolonial African university as a site of multilingualism and cognitive justice, centering indigenous languages and knowledge systems.
What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.
Does art need to be beautiful? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans? This volume gathers authors from philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, and more to investigate the most debated aspects of beauty and aesthetic experience.
Insights into Ethical Theory and Practice
Ethical issues are important, but expert accounts are often inaccessible. This volume bridges that gap, presenting innovative essays in a way that is accessible to experts and non-experts alike, giving readers confidence and enthusiasm for this diverse and lively subject.
Philosophical Imagination
This book shows how ancient philosophers used thought experiments to convey theories and promote scientific knowledge. By analyzing historical examples like Plato’s Ring of Gyges, it provides new insights into how philosophical hypotheses helped promote scientific discovery.
A Study on Existence
Bacigalupo develops a deflationist account of existence, suggesting that there is no such thing as a nature of existence awaiting discovery. The authors discussed include Hume, Kant, Frege, the Neo-Meinongians Routley and Parsons, and the free logicians Leonard and Bencivenga.
Metaphorical Imagination
Abdullah tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor in this book. He revisits the epistemology and ontology of evidence and challenges the dualist norms of social research, points to the failings, and flags up directions for researchers who take evidence seriously.
Psychology and the Three Cultures
King documents the history and evolution of the field of psychology and its position as a global, integrated, hub science. She presents the nexus between science, the humanities and social sciences.
Happiness is fleeting, but meaning endures. This book outlines a disciplined technique to uncover meaning in your life, which becomes a north star for navigation.
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