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An Ontology of Multiple Artworks

David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against a theory of multiple w...

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering - Best Practices and Insights

Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperativ...

Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting

Studies the impact of science and technology on the painting of Gerhard Richter Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of scie...

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II - Values and Governance

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in ...

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy - Volume 5

The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear ...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil

Exploring the philosophical writings of Simone Weil, this unparalleled reference work documents the key thinkers who influenced her polit...

The Autonomous Individual - A Praxeological Enactivist Account

This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the ...

Philosophy of Plant Cognition - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex ...

Making CO2 a Resource - The Interplay Between Research, Innovation and Industry

This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste, and as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest...

Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism

The book examines the place and function of the human heart in the history of humankind beginning with Kemet (Egypt) to our modern era, a...

Law, Animals and Toxicity Testing - The Case of the Laboratory Mouse

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime an...

Reflections on Just War

Understanding and Conscious Experience - Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical di...

Reframing Suicide - The Development of Critical Suicide Studies

This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philo...

The Unconscious as Space - From Freud to Lacan, and Beyond

The Unconscious as Space explores the experience of being and the practice of psychoanalysis by thinking of the unconscious in mathematic...

The Philosophy of Pleasure - An Introduction

Essential reading for students of ethics and political philosophy, and also suitable for those studying related disciplines such as psych...

The Nature of Law - Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good

Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in ...

Bioethics after God - Morality, Culture, and Medicine

Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Medicine a...

The Abstract and the Concrete - Further Essays in Ontology

The Abstract and the Concrete draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-...

Global Sweatshops - A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance

Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatsho...

Prosthetic Immortalities - Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life

Examining the links between today's ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortality From Plato's notion of generation ...

CONJUGIAL LOVE

Written in 1768, presents the nature of masculine and feminine qualities, their divine origin, their correspondence, and the dynamics of ...

Analytic Theism - A Philosophical Investigation

This book explores and develops a new philosophical argument for the existence of God from metaphysics. In doing so, it connects debates ...

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

This book is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness conditio...

The Complex Tapestry of Free Will - A Philosophical Odyssey

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of ...

The Moral Universe

The Moral Universe explores central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to...

Logic and Information

"This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate, and interpret...

Heidegger's Metaphysics - The Overturning of 'Being and Time'

"Heidegger and Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a...

Solidarity with Animals - Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential

This edited collection brings together the leading thinkers in the fields of animal ethics, politics, social philosophy, world religions,...

Burdened Agency - Christian Theology and End-of-Life Ethics

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship be...

Why Suicide Is Amoral - A Philosophical Account

If an agent lacks the ability to exercise deliberative agency or moral agency, or otherwise does not believe themselves to have a choice ...

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia - A Novel Approach to Aesthetics

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aes...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences

The book presents Transparent Intensional Logic in several of its latest realisations in such a way that it makes a case for the system a...

Systematic Aesthetics

First published in 1995, this work aims at rehabilitating systematic aesthetics. It shows how metaphysical and transcendental aesthetics ...

Stones and Lives - The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War

Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to safeguard other goods, in...

Putting Knowledge to Work - New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology

In the 21st century knowledge-centered approaches, which take knowledge as the starting-point for elucidation of other epistemic notions ...

Thinking with Assent - Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief

Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; b...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy

France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Speciall...

The Heart and Its Attitudes

Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans ach...

Intentionality Deconstructed - An Anti-Realist Theory

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional con...

A Wandering Dance Through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes - Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis. Engaging wi...

Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The 'Enneads' Commentary

This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino...

Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons - Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism

This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable ac...

Kōsō-Ryoku: Conceptualizing Capability - For Innovation and Management in the Age of Para-Existence

This book examines conceptualizing capability (k¿s¿-ryoku), the most important ability for thriving in the era of innovation. A new appro...

New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities

This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual ...

Philosophies of Technologies - Theory as Practice

In the space of a century, technologies have acquired unprecedented power. The result of these developments is a new form of the world. T...

Letters from a Stoic

My dear Reader, within this book are one hundred and twenty-four letters on the subject of morals written from the philosopher Seneca to ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

Descending from mountaintops, the priest Zarathustra announces ¿God is dead¿ to the people. Though met with immediate scorn and mockery, ...

Proceedings of 27th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music - Frsm 2023

This book features original papers from 27th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2023), jointly or...

How Not to Be Human - The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of "the human...

Intergenerational Democracy, Environmental Justice and the Case of Nuclear Waste

This book explores the interplay between intergenerational justice and intra-generational justice using nuclear waste management as a con...

Philosophical Foundations of Economic Reality - Anthropological, Ethical and Metaphysical

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic, and utilitarian approach. This leads to...

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is the first fully comprehensive reference volume to examine the intersections of gender st...

Epistemic Blame - The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. Cam...

Higher-Order Metaphysics

This volume explores the use of higher-order logics in metaphysics. Seventeen original essays trace the development of higher-order metap...

As Good As It Gets - The Evolving Thoughts of a Deathwatcher

Unveiling Life's Final Journey: A Physician's Introspective Tale on Death, Grief, and the Pursuit of Becoming a Better Human Amid Existen...

Defeating the Evil-God Challenge - In Defence of God's Goodness

Why is belief in a maximally good god significantly more reasonable than belief in a maximally evil god? Defending the view that argument...

The Practical Self

The Practical Self argues that self-consciousness requires faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking and that this faith is sustai...

Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context - Society, Culture and Language

This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of...