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Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits
Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of “fusion” or “confluence philosophy", a...
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Philosophy of Astrophysics Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There
This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in...
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Die Lust auf Neues Ein Essay über Kreativität
Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung...
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Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution
In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution....
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Serendipity Science An Emerging Field and its Methods
This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins...
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Beyond the Brain How the Mind and the Body Shape Each Other
Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which assumes that mental processes...
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Vernunft, Wissen, Glaube Wege zu einem neuen Verständnis Immanuel Kants
Für das Verständnis der Philosophie Immanuel Kants eröffnen sich neue Einsichten, wenn man neben den Druckschriften auch Kants Vorlesungen beizieht....
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Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs
This book considers whether we can be epistemically responsible for undesirable beliefs, such as racist and sexist ones. The problem with holding...
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Studies in No-Self Physicalism
This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism (‘No-Self Physicalism’) can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical...
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Conceptual and Ethical Challenges of Evolutionary Medicine
This book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine. Upon introducing the reader to evolutionary medicine...
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Epistemic Thought Experiments and Intuitions
This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology. First, the author considers several...
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Logical Empiricism and Naturalism Neurath and Carnap’s Metatheory of Science
This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for...
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Theory and Practice in the Interdisciplinary Production and Reproduction of Scientific Knowledge ID in the XXI Century
This book addresses the urgent need for a large and systematic analysis of current interdisciplinary (ID) research and practice. It demonstrates how...
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Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications Essays in Memory of Mark Steiner
This book provides a survey of a number of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics, such as ontological questions regarding the nature of...
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Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding An Investigation into the Power of Deduction
This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz’s epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of...
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Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology
This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the...
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Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity The Early Philosophical Reception of the Relativistic Revolution
This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and...
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The Future of Free Speech
This book dives headfirst into the contemporary controversy over the limits of free speech. Changing conceptions of what constitutes legitimate harm...
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Live and Let Live A Critique of Intellectual Tolerance
Tolerance - desired by many and often demanded: By UNESCO, by the Pope, by Angela Merkel and Barack Obama. But what exactly does it mean to be...
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Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity
This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science....
