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Toward the Thing-in-Itself: Sellars’ and Meillassoux’s Divergent Conception of Kantian Transcendentalism
I show Sellars’ relevance for contemporary continental philosophy by comparing and contrasting his views to Meillassoux’s conception and use of...
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Naturalism, Transcendentalism, and a New Naturalizing
What is the relationship between phenomenology, psychology, and natural science? This chapter addresses questions about Husserl’s differentiation...
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American writer and educational thinker from the nineteenth century. Movements such as German and British Romanticism and...
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Sign-free Biosemantics and Transcendental Phenomenology: a Better Non-Metaphysical Approach to Close the Mind-body Gap
Attempts to close the mind-body gap traditionally resort to a priori speculations. Motivated by dissatisfaction with such accounts,...
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Scientific ethos and ethical dimensions of education
This research examines the ethical dimensions of ethical thought aimed at reflecting fundamentals or leading principles of the production and...
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Henry David Thoreau and Modern Sustainability
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American writer, philosopher, abolitionist, and land surveyor associated with Transcendentalism and the genre...
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Water, Clouds, Rocks: Nonhuman Temporalities and Adalbert Stifter’s Poetics of Nature
This contribution reads Stifter’s work and its critical reception alongside the tradition of American transcendentalism. In both cases, the narrative...
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Climate Change and Myth
Within the confines of human culture, phenomena like climate change or biodiversity loss are integrated in powerful narratives that belong to the...
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Climate Change and Myth
Within the confines of human culture, phenomena like climate change or biodiversity loss are integrated in powerful narratives that belong to the...
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Higher-order metaphysics and the tropes versus universals dispute
Higher-order realists about properties express their view that there are properties with the help of higher-order rather than first-order...
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A History of Hunting and Hunting Perceptions
The purposes of our second chapter are to provide a summary of hunting’s historical role and show how attitudes toward hunting have evolved. Our goal...
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Henry David Thoreau and Modern Sustainability
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American writer, philosopher, abolitionist, and land surveyor associated with Transcendentalism and the genre...
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Thinking Technology Big Again. Reconsidering the Question of the Transcendental and ‘Technology with a Capital T’ in the Light of the Anthropocene
This article has two general aims. It first of all critically reconsiders the empirical turn’s dismissal of transcendentalism in the philosophy of...
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Neither Angel Nor Beast: Life and/Versus Mind in Canguilhem and Merleau-Ponty
The chapter addresses the problem of the relationship between life (vitality) and mind (thought) by drawing on the resources available in...
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Historical Epistemology and European Philosophy of Science Rethinking Critical Rationalism and Transcendentalism
This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the European tradition of the...
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The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle’s Romanticism and John Rawls’s Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice
Thomas Carlyle and John Rawls each offer divergent forms of philosophical constructivism in their deliberations on social and distributive justice....
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G. Santayana (Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923) and E. Husserl (Cartesianische Meditationen, 1929), Readers of R. Descartes
Moreno shows that Santayana believed he had found an ally regarding his doctrine of essence in the philosophy of Husserl. He then reveals the...
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A Transcendental Childhood
Alcott’s relationship with Transcendentalism was always problematic: her 1873 essay on the family’s Fruitlands experiences, ‘Transcendental Wild...