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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal...
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Complementarity and Quantum Cognition
The idea of complementarity is one of the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Yet, the idea was originally developed in William James’ psychology of...
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Beyond Consciousness in Early Christian Mysticism
Late antique Christian mysticism is a way of transcending consciousness. The culmination of the approaches of the time is represented by the writings...
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Religion, Leadership, and Consciousness: Interactions and Opportunities
Effective leadership is not about profit, goals, and vision alone – it is also about the curation of shared values and their implementation in the...
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Knowledge as a Leap of Faith
Wahman argues that Santayana’s account of knowledge as a leap of faith is a unique, important, and underappreciated contribution to epistemology. She...
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Introduction: the Agony of Corinne Rey
Corinne Rey gave masked gunmen the passcode to the Charlie Hebdo building. If she had not, she and her young daughter would have been killed. She has...
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Selfish Genes and Morality
Though the concept of the selfish gene (articulated in Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene) is now dated, it is still influential in evolutionary...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
The chapter titled “Against Prescriptions: Why Values?” explores the perplexing question of why humans need and use values, even though values...
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Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera
This chapter, “Values in the Political Soap Opera,” delves into the intricate interplay between values, politics, and society, examining the fluid...
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Excursus I: Values and Human Rights
This chapter, “Values and Human Rights,” explores the complex interplay between human rights, values, and societal dynamics within the European...
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The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?
Some argue that values relate only within the discourse of values and not to the external world. These values are seen as existing in a sea of...
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The Blue Flower in the Mirror of True Emptiness: An Approach to Nishida’s Active Feeling
Arguably, emotions figure prominently in contemporary philosophy, not only in the fields of aesthetics and philosophy of religion, but also in the...
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Ressentiment and Love: Nietzsche, Scheler and Asano
Ressentiment can be regarded as one of the most complicated feelings of human beings. It is a French foreign-loan word which is used as a noun, but...
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Ever More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?
This chapter delves into the complexity of moral values and their role in contemporary society. The author questions the claim that values are...
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The Early Reception of Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence in Japan and Its Emotional Features
This chapter examines some representative cases of Japanese intellectuals’ discussions of Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence from the...
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Improving on Hume’s Account of the Way We Generalise from Experience
In this chapter, I argue that the correct description of the way we generalise from experience has us inferring to the best explanation rather than,...
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An Improved Account of the Belief in the Continued Existence of Bodies
I have two aims in this chapter. I will argue, first, that Hume’s accounts of the aetiology of the vulgar and the philosophical beliefs about...