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The Relationship Between Religion, Superstition and Spirituality
This chapter begins with defining religionReligion/religious/religiosity, spirituality and superstition and explores the complexities involved in...
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Kant’s Critique of Science, Metaphysics and Religion
The Kantian critical trichotomy and the critical-dialectical nexus between knowledge, freedom, and hope. The method of Kantian criticism and the...
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An Intersectional Perspective on Gender and Leadership
The concept of intersectionality has emerged as a powerful metaphor for understanding the simultaneous experience of multiple forms of oppression....
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David Émile Durkheim: Founding ‘Scientific Sociology’
Durkheim was the promoter of “scientific sociology,” in the Third Republic France, using transfer from Spencerian Lamarckism/French neo-Lamarckism to...
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The concept of intersectionality in bioethics: a systematic review
BackgroundIntersectionality is a concept that originated in Black feminist movements in the US-American context of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly...
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Beyond the Horizon: Philosophy and Religion in the Late Work of Tang Junyi (1909–1978)
This chapter addresses the specific issue of the relation between philosophical reasoning and the quasi-religious goal of spiritual...
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No Such Thing as Free Speech? Performativity, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in the UK
The relationship between academic freedom and freedom of speech features prominently in public and political discussions concerning the role of...
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Technology, Megatrends and Work: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide...
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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the...
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Consciousness Studies: Which Consciousness? What Studies?
The essay supplies a – necessarily selective – overview of the state of Consciousness Studies. It outlines various concepts of ‘consciousness’ in...
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The Double Revision of Marxism and Similarity with Lukács
Fatalistic and mechanistic determinism is typical of a phase still defined by the subalternity of certain social groups, constituting a sort of...
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The Crowd – A Boundary Object in Social Sciences
In 1982, a debate between Serge Moscovici (1925–2014) and Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2001) took place at the Maison de Radio France in Paris. The debate...
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Divine Revelation and Justification of Belief in God: a Comparative Study of the Views of Paul Moser and Mulla Sadra
The present article analyzes and compares the idea of divine revelation to justify religious beliefs from the viewpoints of Paul Moser and Mulla...
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Phrónēsis in Literary Criticism—The Pragmatic Denouement
The penultimate chapter gathers together the arguments previously adumbrated about the dovetailing of literary criticism and philosophy, while also...
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Théodule Armand Ribot: ‘Scientific Psychology’ in France
Ribot fulfilled a controversial, seminal role in France: powerful long-time editor of the influential Revue philosophique, prolific author, high-brow...
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism: Seeking Common Ground in Debate (The Wei, **, and Northern and Southern Dynasties)
In this period, the relationship among the three teachings was mainly characterized by the separation of Confucian classical studies, though it still...
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Artifacting Identity. How Grillz, Ball Gags and Gas Masks Expand the Face
By questioning the attribution of a primary role to the eyes as bearers of identity within traditional Western culture, this paper will problematize...
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Concluding Facts in the Islamic Philosophy of Science
The central focus of this Handbook of Islamic Philosophy of Science lays open its exclusively qur’anic reference to the Tawhidi methodological...
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Philosophy as Ecological Practice
This essay reflects on the practice of philosophy in the ecological emergency, arguing that the latter asks philosophy to reconsider the ancient...