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Katerina Kolozova, William Paul Cockshott, Greg Michaelson

Defending Materialism

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted. Defending Materialism follows the political and theoretic…

Hisaki Hashi

The Field of 'Between'

Cognitive science has reached a peak in the past few decades. This science conceives of mental life as consisting of bundles of information that can be quantified and digitally transmitted: a revolution i…

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt

A Natural History of Natural Theology

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which…

Thomas Metzinger

The Elephant and the Blind

"The Elephant and the Blind is a book about why we need a new culture of consciousness, and how to get it. A culture of consciousness (or Bewusstseinskultur) is a culture that values and cultivates the me…

Stefana Garello

The Enigma of Metaphor

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a certain f…

The Reception of John Philoponus' Natural Philosophy

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c. 490-570 CE) confronts numerous aspects of Aristotle's philosophy and science. Yet the influence of these reinterpretations and critiques remains under…

Atle Ottesen Søvik

A Basic Theory of Everything

The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philos…

Walter B. Weimer

Epistemology of the Human Sciences

This book argues for evolutionary epistemology and distinguishing functionality from physicality in the social sciences. It explores the implications for this approach to understanding in biology, economi…

Daniel C. Dennett,

Süße Träume

Schillernd, enigmatisch, schwer zu fassen: Das Bewusstsein gilt als eines der großen Rätsel unserer Zeit, und es gibt viele, unter ihnen nicht wenige Philosophen, die behaupten, es sei unmöglich, es auf d…

S. Sayyid,

Islamism as Philosophy

Islamism as Philosophy explores some of the philosophical assumptions that frame the way in which the rise of Muslim political identity throughout the planet presents challenges which are not only cultura…

Hans Joas

Under the Spell of Freedom

In Under the Spell of Freedom, Hans Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the…

Jason A Springs

Restorative Justice and Lived Religion

"This book examines how restorative justice practices and initiatives can challenge and transform the structurally racist features of the U.S. mass incarceration, and explores the ways that practitioners …

Jaime Schultz

Regulating Bodies

Regulating Bodies offers the first global history of protective policies in elite sports and asks how far we are willing to go in the name of sporting excellence.

Liz Bucar

Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

Gotham Chopra, Joe Levin

Religion of Sports

From the sports documentarian and executive producer of “The Religion of Sports,” a memoir-meets-manifesto about how sports provide meaning and purpose in people’s lives all over the world.

Sufism and Zen in the West

Historically and culturally, Sufism and Zen may not seem to have anything in common. However, in the West, their spiritual messages are often perceived as strikingly similar. In this book, scholars analys…

Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners…

Grant Farred

The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education

"While recollecting his educational experiences in apartheid South Africa, the author grapples with the oppressive intent of the governing regime alongside its unintended benefits for his intellectual and…