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Answering Divine Love: Human Distinctiveness in the Light of Islam and Artificial Superintelligence
In the Qur’an, human distinctiveness was first questioned by angels. These established denizens of the cosmos could not understand why God would...
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Zdziechowski’s distinctiveness: on the distinctive differences between Marian Zdziechowski’s thought and the Russian Renaissance
The article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the views of Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), a...
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How to Move Beyond the Human
The article briefly introduces an academic debate between two different responses to the predicament of the human in the ecological crisis, namely...
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“Humanity is another corporeity”: The evolution of human bodily appearance and sociality
Some accounts of human distinctiveness focus on anatomical features, such as bipedalism and brain size. Others focus on cognitive abilities, such as...
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Should Global Conservation Initiatives Prioritize Phylogenetic Diversity?
Some recent conservation proposals – including the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) EDGE of Existence programme – have focused on the value of...
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The interoceptive underpinnings of the feeling of being alive. Damasio’s insights at work
The feeling of being alive still constitutes a major blind spot of contemporary affective sciences research. The mainstream view accepts it as an...
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Russian philosophy and the question of its exceptional nature
This essay addresses one of the most concerning features of Russian thought: its claim to exceptionality. The author contends that the notion of...
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Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual...
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The History of Jews in South Africa
Stratton and other diaspora scholars, like James Clifford, point out the aspect of time for the making of a diaspora and the importance of...
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Particularizing Nonhuman Nature in Stakeholder Theory: The Recognition Approach
Stakeholder theory has grown into one of the most frequent approaches to organizational sustainability. Stakeholder research has provided...
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Moral Difference and Moral Differences
The idea that human beings have a distinct moral worth—a moral significance over and above any moral worth, such as that may be, possessed by other...
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Introduction
The Tawhidi foundation of the generality and details of the world-system was introduced in theory in Section 1 in some analytical depth. Its derived...
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John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective
This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion,...
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When Markets Aren’t Markets: a Reply to David Rondel
In a recent article in this journal, David Rondel argues that symbolic (or semiotic) objections to markets hold significant argumentative force....
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Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism
In recent years, several cases about the legal personhood of nonhuman animals garnered global attention, e.g. the recognition of ‘basic rights’ for...
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Language of Religion: What Does It Inform the Field of Linguistics?
This chapter addresses two major questions: a) What is the differentia of language of religion (LR)? Does LR/register differ from other registers of...