Global Asias
Tina Chen
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- ISBN: 9780824894061
- Publication Date: Dec 2024
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Structure and Thought
Daniel Sacilotto
This book shows how the different forms of sensory, discursive, and theoretical mediation that characterize human cognition are conducive to a realist epistemological framework that explains how the possibility of knowledge about a mind‑independent reality is conceivable.
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- ISBN: 9780810146617
- Publication Date: May 2024
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The Origin of Scientific Revolutions
Rinat Nugayev
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781680533071
- Publication Date: May 2024
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Knowing Reality
Dwayne Moore
This hybrid text offers concise introductions to core issues in metaphysics and epistemology, alongside over 40 primary source readings.
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- ISBN: 9781554815302
- Publication Date: Jul 2023
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The Second Alcibiades: A Platonist Dialogue on Prayer and on Ignorance
Harold Tarrant
Providing a challenging new interpretation of the Second Alcibiades from the Platonic corpus, this treatment sees the dialogue not only as a work of philosophic ethics, but also as one steeped in ancient literature, particularly Euripidean tragedy. The dialogue’s philosophy is underpinned by an epistemology paying special attention to one’s personal viewpoint, as its language shows. Dramatically, it presents a Socrates who falls into a similar trap from the one he steers Alcibiades away from, facing the dangers of a tragic character thanks to their mutual attraction. Understood in this way the dialogue, here retranslated to bring out such features, is revealed as the work of an author with linguistic and literary gifts who is deeply conscious of the human condition. While reminiscent of the Academic Skeptic picture of Plato, it is the work of somebody still moving cautiously in that direction.
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- ISBN: 9781733535786
- Publication Date: Apr 2023
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Animals, Mind, and Matter
Josephine Donovan
It’s no secret that animals are considered objects in the fields of law, commerce, and science, characterized as property and commodities. Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story challenges this ascription and establishes that animals are living subjects, who have minds and opinions and care about what happens to them. Donovan contends that animals’ voices or standpoints should be part of any human decisions concerning their ethical treatment. Through theoretical explorations of the nature of subjectivity and consciousness, Donovan proposes that a new narrative is emerging in the arts and sciences—an inside story that re-subjectifies natural life and leaves behind the deadening Midas touch of Cartesian objectivism.
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- ISBN: 9781611864373
- Publication Date: Oct 2022
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Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter
A.A. Long
In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate “matter,” and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to Plato’s so-called Receptacle, Plotinus develops an account of matter that makes it a supremely negative entity. How he describes the indescribable, and how he justifies incorporeal matter’s indispensability to bodies, are highlights of this tenaciously argued essay. A. A. Long translates and interprets Plotinus’ treatise on the matter that underlies all physical and intelligible beings. With a wide-ranging introduction and probing analysis of details, he explains the intricate structure of the text. The book will appeal to everyone interested in the history of Platonism and ancient Greek theories of the world’s ultimate principles.
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- ISBN: 9781733535762
- Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Debunking Scholarly Nonsense
Robert Hauptman
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- ISBN: 9781680538601
- Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Why Tillich? Why Now?
Thomas G. Bandy
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- ISBN: 9780881468106
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Ethics of Paul Tillich
Ronald H. Stone
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- ISBN: 9780881468090
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Everything Ancient Was Once New
Emalani Case
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780824886806
- Publication Date: Mar 2021
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Cultural Perspectives on Global Research Epistemology
F. Sigmund Topor
Cultural values and structures differ in societies throughout the world. For example, the traditional conformism of Confucian countries is vastly dissimilar from the individualistic values of Western societies. In today's globalized environment, the greatest challenge is the collaboration of diverse cultures. The comprehension of global epistemology and the understanding of diverse cultural perspectives is needed in order to sustain global harmony and intercultural congruence. Cultural Perspectives on Global Research Epistemology: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source that discusses the effect of globalization on intercultural communication and critical thinking and analyzes Eastern and Western societies from an epistemological standpoint. While highlighting topics including uncertainty avoidance, Confucianism, and cultural heritage, this book is ideally designed for researchers, scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, practitioners, and students seeking current research on epistemic discordance in global research.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781522589846
- Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Decreasing School Violence, Bullying, and Delinquency With Epistemic Inclusion
Aneta Mechi
When asked what inclusion means, most people immediately think about relatedness: being accepted by a group or having the opportunity to belong. However, there are multiple needs for inclusivity that one goes in search of including self-integrity. If any stimuli threatens this integrity, a person may struggle to recover it, even if the price is to become the best gang leader, to follow the principle that it is better to be the leader of the dunces than to have the reputation of a "good for nothing." Individuals may suffer from unrecognition and thus avoid a situation in which they would be perceived as incompetent, especially when their potential has been previously ignored. This pain has often been accompanied by verbal aggression, violence, delinquency, or other criminal activities because of the need to show, at any cost, that they are skilled somewhere, even if it is a socially depreciated area. This theory has shown itself in school violence and students who partake in bullying, criminal acts, and delinquency. But giving individuals the opportunity to develop and display their competence keeps them related to pro-social behavior instead of pushing them to excel in anti-social settings. Decreasing School Violence, Bullying, and Delinquency With Epistemic Inclusion identifies which factors lead to prosocial behavior, why people start to behave antisocially, and how simple actions can change others' visions and goals in both positive and negative ways. This book employs the theory of epistemic inclusion in educational settings and how to increase it. Divided into four sections, this book covers the importance of finding a solution for violence, bullying, and delinquency; what epistemic inclusion is; how schools can make epistemic inclusion work; and implementing procedures. This book is a valuable reference tool for in-service and preservice teachers, administrators, psychologists, therapists, counselors, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in how the theory of epistemic inclusion can be implemented in educational settings.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781799843665
- Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Plotinus Ennead III.4: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit
Wiebke-Marie Stock
On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit is a lively and at times perplexing text combining general reflections on the nature of the soul with a discussion of the phenomenon of a personal guardian spirit. Plotinus wants to interpret Plato, and aims to integrate Plato's various statements about daimones into one comprehensive theory. This leads to some views that are, if not exotic, then at least strange on first encounter. However, a closer reading reveals that Plotinus is not interested in demonology per se. Instead, the central concern of the treatise are ideas about the soul, the self, and self-consciousness. Plotinus' explorations produce a theory of the mind as the agent and activity responsible for a person’s ethical choices and conduct of life. The demon emerges as a philosophical tool passed down from Plato, but adapted and rationalized to try to explain motivation to action, the impulse toward the ethical life, and even the various differences in human ethical and psychological constitution. This innovative theory is a response to a strong and ongoing current of thought in the philosophical tradition. The introduction offers an overview of ancient demonologies, starting with Homer and the Presocratics, and is followed by an in-depth examination of Plato, the Stoics, Plotinus, and later Neoplatonic developments. As such the book presents Plotinus’ specific rationalizing response to the idea of a guardian spirit in the context of ancient philosophical demonologies.
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- ISBN: 9781733535700
- Publication Date: Nov 2020
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Plotinus Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One
Stephen R. L. Clark
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- ISBN: 9781733535724
- Publication Date: Oct 2020
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The Age of Disinformation
Burton Porter
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- ISBN: 9781680539585
- Publication Date: Oct 2020
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Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Descartes’ Discourse, presented here in an engaging new translation, is a perfect point of entry into early modern philosophical and scientific thought.
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- ISBN: 9781554813179
- Publication Date: Aug 2020
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
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- ISBN: 9781554815548
- Publication Date: Aug 2020
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Introduction to Philosophy: A Survey
Steve Stakland
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781792427626
- Publication Date: Jul 2020
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Forbidden Knowledge
Burton Porter
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781680532142
- Publication Date: Apr 2020
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