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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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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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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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Consciousness and Implicit Self-Awareness: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Some contemporary Western theories of consciousness, such as the higher-order thought (HOT) theory and self-representationalism, hold that there is...
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Comparison of Issues and Data Curation Strategies
This chapter synthesizes the literature reviewed in Chaps. 3 and 4, comparing key issues relating to qualitative data reuse and big social research,...
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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...
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Divisibility of Space
In this chapter, I discuss the third metaphysical implication of the Idealist reading, pertaining to the divisibility of space. Is space infinitely...
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Comments on the Contributions
The contributions to this volume represent a broad range of aspects of proof-theoretic semantics. Some do so in the narrower, and some in the wider...
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The Validity of Inference and Argument
It has been common in contemporary logic and philosophy of logic to identify the validity of an inference with its conclusion being a (logical)...
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Grundlagen der Arithmetik, §17: Part 1. Frege’s Anticipation of the Deduction Theorem
A running commentary is offered on the first half of Frege’s Grundlagen der Arithmetik, §17, and suggests that Frege anticipated the method of...
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Social Accountability in Lebanon: Collaboration Rather Than Confrontation in Times of Crisis
This chapter brings a case study of social accountability (SA) initiative in Lebanon, focusing on the relationship between community-based committees...
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Social Accountability in Tunisia: Processes of Learning in Civic Innovation Between 2011 and 2021
This chapter explores the different conceptions of social accountability held by Tunisian civil society actors and public officials in the context of...
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Evolution and Transformation of IGAD
The chapter starts by focusing on the formation of IGADD and delves into its objectives, contributions, and the historical factors that led to its...
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Regional Security and the Role of IGAD in Somalia
This chapter analyzes IGAD’s role in regional security in the Horn of Africa, with a focus on Somalia. Since 1991, IGAD has been involved in...
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Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents
Unorganised collectives that are interesting in terms of moral responsibility are a set of individuals picked out by some normatively relevant fact....
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The Other Modern Séances
This chapter is a philosophical exploration of the topic specifically sidestepped in Patočka’s paper: the survival of the soul after the death of the...
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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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The Contribution of Space Policy to Development and Security in South Africa
This chapter examines the extent that South Africa has employed its space and related capacities and capabilities (such as institutional, financial,...
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Pragmatics and Semantics: Grice 1968, Schiffer 2015, Schiffer 1972
Paul Grice is widely seen as a champion of the view that communication is an exercise in rational coordination through acts of speaker meaning. Since...