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The Labyrinth of Zi-Ka-Wei
This chapter offers an account of the complex relationship between Zottoli and his mission, including also the heritage from the famous Jesuit...
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A Symbolic Framing of Exploitative Firms: Evidence from Japan
Symbols can be used to mask or embellish firms’ exploitative labor practices. The present study defines exploitative firms’ abuse of symbolic...
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Wilkinson’s “Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion”
Wilkinson’s chapter is bold and ambitious, broadly criticizing the cognitive science of religion (CSR), an interdisciplinary field of study a few...
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Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”
Climate and evolution (Matthew,
1915 ) represents an important contribution to evolutionary biogeography, that influenced several authors, notably...
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‘Now the Illumination’: Iris Murdoch as Zen Philosopher-Poet
Hullah—himself a poet—was, with Yozo Muroya, instrumental in persuading Murdoch to allow some of her poetry to be collected in the 1997 Poems, for...
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Imfundo, Ubulumko, Nomthetho: A South African Philosophy of Education
Education in South Africa has always been a contentious matter since the inception of colonization and coloniality, which is rooted in two competing...
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Darwin, Evolutionism, and New Approaches to the Historiography of Latin America
The historiography of the comparative reception of Darwin’s work in Latin America developed a subfield that addressed crucial problems in the...
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Michel Foucault on Regenerative Relatedness of Power/Knowledge and Truth
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) suggests that there is an implicit conjunction between knowledge, power and truth. Even if knowledge and power are two...
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Imfundo, Ubulumko, Nomthetho: A South African Philosophy of Education
Education in South Africa has always been a contentious matter since the inception of colonization and coloniality, which is rooted in two competing...
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Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering
Genetic manipulation (bioengineering) is implicit to the current paradigm of modern biology. Concerns raised about the technology have focused...
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Evaluating emotions in medical practice: a critical examination of ‘clinical detachment’ and emotional attunement in orthopaedic surgery
In this article I propose to reframe debates about ideals of emotion in medicine, abandoning the current binary setup of this debate as one between...
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Agents, Acts and the Relativity of Blame
This chapter explores the bearing of ideology and the potential of false belief and ignorance to excuse the doing of deeds which are antithetical to...
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“I would sooner die than give up”: Huxley and Darwin's deep disagreement
Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin discovered in 1857 that they had a fundamental disagreement about biological classification. Darwin believed...
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A Critical Analysis of the Reception of Darwinism in Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
Since the 1970s, there has been an interest in the “introduction” and “reception” of scientific ideas comparatively. Thomas Glick’s work has been the...
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Ortega’s Aesthetics
Throughout his life Ortega y Gasset turned his attention to the definition and critical analysis of art and aesthetics, converting this theorization...
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Critical Moral Philosophy and Management
This chapter considers the contribution which critical moral philosophy can make to an understanding and appreciation of management. It concentrates...
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The British Historiography of Philosophy in the Nineteenth-Century
During the eighteenth century, British works on the history of philosophy were very limited and absolutely incomparable not only to the great German...