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Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical researc...

Determinism, Death, and Meaning

This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such...

Capital and Capitalism - Old Myths, New Futures

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not jus...

Science in the Context of Application

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science do...

Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender

'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioet...

Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch und Hebräisch - Der sechzig Hymnen und Gedichte dritte Ausgabe

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Uberse...

Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in w...

Critical Views of Logic

This book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced ...

Philosophy of Mental Disorder - An Ability-Based Approach

This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant ...

Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance t...

Aristotelian Naturalism - A Research Companion

This book features many of the leading voices championing the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism (AN) in contemporary philoso...

Transparency, Society and Subjectivity - Critical Perspectives

This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual cla...

Surviving Democracy - Mitigating Climate Change in a Neoliberalized World

Chien-Yi Lu treats climate change as collateral damage of the neoliberal order established to ensure upward power and wealth redistributi...

Wege aus dem Kapitalismus? - Autorengespräche mit Colin Crouch, Nancy Fraser, Claus Offe, Wolfgang Streeck und Joseph Vogl

Die im Westen lange vorherrschende Überzeugung, dass der Kapitalismus das effizienteste Wirtschaftssystem und zugleich ein natürlicher Ve...

Galen and the Early Moderns

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 ¿ c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short r...

Violence and Nihilism

Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious author...

Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian - A Prolegomenon

The theme of this book is the documentarian¿what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise...

Eroticizing Aesthetics - In the Real with Bataille and Lacan

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this invokes an e...

The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences genera...

We as Self - Ouri, Intersubjectivity, and Presubjectivity

We as Self argues for a notion of we-ness based not on a self-centered or a self-less point of view, in which the "we" is only either a c...

Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans - beyond simply ...

The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics

How much does ethics demand of us and on what authority? How does this relate to prudence, law, and social convention? Such questions lie...

The Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics - A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Interpretations of Bohmian Ontology

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the metaphysics of Bohmian mechanics. Bohmian mechanics is a quantum theory t...

Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals

This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological ...

The Informational Logic of Human Rights - Networked Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age

Shows how digital capitalism has shaped human rights practices.

Human Rights - The Hard Questions

This volume addresses the philosophical and theoretical ramifications of human rights, and challenges made to them.

Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy

Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy fills the lacuna in African philosophy literature on the inherent tension between requi...

Wittgenstein's Tractatus, A Student's Edition

First published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential-and one of the most obscure-...

Reconstructionist Confucianism - Rethinking Morality After the West

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers...

Logic in High Definition - Trends in Logical Semantics

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics. Consisting of 10 contributions, the vol...

Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy - Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points ...

Does Truth Matter? - Democracy and Public Space

On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn't need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or ...

Art of Reasoning - An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Students learn logic by practicing it by working through problems, analyzing existing arguments, and constructing their own arguments in ...

An Ethical View of Human-Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumeria...

Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, a...

Tasting Coffee - An Inquiry into Objectivity

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subj...

The Humanistic Background of Science

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophe...

Nietzsche¿s Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology - Second Edition

Nietzsche¿s doctrine of the "eternal recurrence of the same"¿the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequen...

The Meaning of Suffering - An Interpretation of Human Existence from the Viewpoint of Time

Suffering is a fact of human existence. In his interdisciplinary investigation of the causes, types, value, and outcome of human sufferin...

Language Mysticism - The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and...

History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms

This book provides a conceptual overview of the evolution of Chinese philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the end of the imperial e...

Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of Hegel.

Zur Erinnerung an den 250. Geburtstag von Hegel versammelt dieser Band mit dem ungewöhnlichen Titel »Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of He...

Philosophy of Devotion - The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals

Paul Katsafanas examines the role of devotion as an ethical stance in human life. Devotion typically involves treating certain values, go...

Preludes to Pragmatism - Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism

Rethinking Responsibility

This volume examines the concept of responsibility amidst current societal challenges that require its rethinking. Assigning responsibili...

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition

The homogeneity of the Epicurean Garden and the unchangeability of the texts of Epicurus has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ...

The Nso¿ Concept of Time - An African Cosmological Perspective

The Nsö Concept of Time explores cosmology among the Nsö people of north-western Cameroon. It examines the concept of time within the Nsö...

Art and its Objects

This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

The Life of the Mind - Texts

Zum ersten Mal ist Hannah Arendts letztes Buchprojekt nach der Typoskript-Fassung zu lesen, begleitet von zum Teil bisher unpubliziert ge...

Summa Metaphysicae Ad Mentem Sancti Thomae: Essays in Honor of John F. Wippel

This volume is a tribute to Fr. John F. Wippel. Following the philosoph-ical order that Aquinas might have adopted "had he chosen to writ...

Metaphysical Disputations III and IV - On Being's Passions in General and Its Principles and on Transcendental Unity in General

"Francisco Suâarez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of Early Modern Scholasticism. Although Suâarez...

Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. I...

Lógos and Máth¿ma 2 - Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

The volume consists of thirteen papers devoted to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. They can be divided into t...

Disguised Academic Plagiarism - A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors

This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities discipl...

Doc-Humanity

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that wa...

Postcontinental Realism - Ontology and Epistemology for the Twenty-First Century

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years. Did he hold that happi...

Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals. It uncovers a rich stream of innovative...

On What Matters - Volume Two

This is the second volume of a major new work in moral philosophy. It starts with critiques of Derek Parfit's work by four eminent moral ...

Words of Wisdom - A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition

Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the i...