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Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism

Swami Medhananda

This Element provides an argumentative introduction to the doctrines of karma and rebirth in Hinduism. It explains how various Hindu texts, traditions, and figures have understood the philosophical nuances of karma and rebirth. It also acquaints readers with some of the...

Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy

Daniel Nolan

Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Section 1 provides...

Kant and Stoic Ethics

Melissa Merritt

Although it is widely recognised that many concepts central to Kant's ethics have a Stoic provenance, there has still been relatively little close scholarly examination of the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy over the Critical period...

Margaret Macdonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s

Michael Kremer , Cheryl Misak

This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating periods in the history of analytic philosophy: the pre-war London of...

Oxford Pragmatism

Cheryl Misak

Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on theOxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected...

The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century

Lydia Moland , Alison Stone

The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century disrupts the widespread impression that there were no women philosophers in this period. Building on feminist histories of philosophy that cover other eras, this volume includes...

Heidegger's Being and Time

Tobias Keiling , Aaron James Wendland

Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, published in 1927, is widely regarded as his most important work and it has had a profound influence on twentieth-century philosophy. This Critical Guide draws on recently translated and published primary sources as well as the latest...

Oxford Pragmatism

Cheryl Misak

Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on theOxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected...

Between Two Worlds

Mario Bunge

To go through the pages of the Autobiography of Mario Bunge is to accompany him through dozens of countries and examine the intellectual, political, philosophical and scientific spheres of the last hundred years. It is an experience that oscillates between two different...

Heidegger on Transcendence

Chad Engelland

Licht – Metapher der Erkenntnis

Maria Nühlen

Das Licht als Metapher der Erkenntnis gehört zur abendländischen Tradition der Bildsprache allgemein, insbesondere aber in der Philosophie. Die Erfahrung eines neuen Gedankens, einer neuen Idee oder einer neuen Erkenntnis haben wir, vielleicht mangels eigener...

Leibniz: Journal Articles on Natural Philosophy

Richard Francks , Samuel Levey , Jeffrey K. Mcdonough , Lea Aurelia Schroeder

This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles, only three of which have appeared before in English translation. It also includes in full Leibniz's public controversies...

The Legacy of the Vienna Circle

Georg Schiemer

This book gives a critical evaluation of the Vienna Circle, its historical influences, and the philosophical legacy of logical empiricism. The first part of the volume contains nine original research articles by leading experts in the field on the philosophical...

Heidegger and the Elements of (Human) Being

S. Montgomery Ewegen

By way of an analysis of Heidegger's use of the elements of earth, water, air, and fire as a means to describe the unfolding of being, this Element offers a novel account of Heidegger's understanding of the human.By covering a variety of texts from the late-20s through...

Heidegger on Ethics

Mahon O'brien

Heidegger is often understood to have forsaken the very possibility of ethics – we find numerous variations of this view in the secondary literature. And yet, in Letter on Humanism,Heidegger stresses the importance of ethics (thought anew as originary ethics) in the...

Semi-Secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond

Francis Jonbäck , Carl-Johan Palmqvist

An increasingly large part of the population in the West identifies as religious Nones. Contrary to what might be assumed, most of them are not outright atheists. They reject traditional religion, but many pursue different forms of spirituality, and many entertain...

Heidegger on Presence

Richard Polt

Heidegger calls the thought that 'being is presence' the 'thunderbolt' that led him to link being and time and inspired his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. However, the scope of the concept of presence varies in his texts; the narrower it is, the more dramatic...

An Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Prejudices in Erasmus's Adagia and Other Writings

Nathan Ron

This book explores Erasmus's ethnic and gender prejudices. It does not in any way seek to undermine the esteem in which Erasmus is generally held, as a prince of the humanists; it is rather a consideration of common early modern prejudices. The book’s principal...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

Donald Rutherford

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

Donald Rutherford

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...