“…As such, it will be of keen interest to theologians, New Testament scholars, philosophers, and scholars of religious studies…”
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“…The authorargues that the many valuable studies by psychoanalysts, relational psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers have all made valuable contributions, and uses these to highlight and explore the many values and dangers inherent in passionate love. …”

“…This book takes a philosophically different approach to many current neuro-rehabilitation topics, and has the potential to make a big impact. …”

“…Various aspects of the paranormal are investigated, such as dream telepathy, parapsychology, UFO contactee stories and alien abductions (the only wholly sceptical paper in this collection, presented by two Parisian Lacanian analysts), and synchronicity. There is also a philosophical essay concerned with the concept of the paranormal and the surrounding psychoanalytic ideas. …”

“…The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. …”

“…Part III examines in the context of literary studies an interdisciplinary concept of cultural cognition.Culture and Cognition will be essential reading for literary theorists, historians and philosophers of science; semioticians; and scholars and students of cultural studies, the sociology of literature, and science and literature…”

“…In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. …”

“…At centre stage of the witchcraft show are the witches and their judges, from the theologians and philosophers to the exorcists. As well as addressing actual events, the book also explores the nature of the beliefs and the way in which they were transmitted in the various social strata, and the phenomenon of diabolical possession which conveyed the message of the presence of the devil in the world…”

“…Retraces the history of postmodern philosophy and proposes solutions to overcome its impasses.Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set against different forms of idealism and subjectivism. …”

“…Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and at Ecole normale supérieure, Port-au-Prince, Haiti…”

“…If in the first phase the main figures are heralds of eighteenth-century philosophical and scientific currents, in the second phase new ideas arise that allow the renewal of the relations between neurology and psychiatry, and a more psychological and psychotherapeutic attitude is disclosed. …”

“…By examining mostly unknown and uncollected texts, Blandine Joret explains Bazin's methodology and adopts it in a contemporary reading, linking his ideas to major philosophical and scientific frameworks as well as more recent media practices such as advertising, CGI, 3D cinema and Virtual Reality. …”

“…In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. …”

“…This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. …”

“…Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. …”

“…The scope of concerns is wide: the perspective of the American philosopher S. Cavell who makes a very original reception of the heritage of Austin and Wittgenstein; Sartre's phenomenological perspective in dialogue and conflict with that of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the reconceptualisations of ideology made by Louis Althusser; the constitution of the subject in tension between the subjection to power and the possibilities of resistance according to the perspective of Judith Butler; a rereading of the implication of structure and subject in the structural perspective opened by Saussure and continued by Lévi-Strauss, Benveniste and Lacan, subject that receives a treatment circumscribed to the thought of the Argentine Ernesto Laclau, in which different stages are distinguished; the implications that the fundamental events of the history of the 20th century bring for a conceptualization of subjectivity in the perspective of Theodor Adorno and the limitations that the conceptualization of the work of art as a game in Gadamer's work imposes on the modern conception of the subjectivity…”

“…"The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics offers the reader an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand, and reinvigorate traditional philosophical questions, as well as how those questions, with the grounding influence of neuroscience, are being revisited beyond clinical and research domains. …”

“…Our aim is to bring together philosophers and practicing scientist from the major institutions of the country, both universities and research centers. …”

“…They argue that this more complete picture of entrepreneurial phenomena will likely come from scholars who undertake at least some trailblazing projects; from scholars who broaden the range of research questions, the potential outcomes of entrepreneurial action, and the selection and combination of research methods; and from researchers who avoid the endless debates about the margins of the field and its sub-fields or about whether one theoretical or philosophical lens is superior to another. This book offers suggestions for future research through a variety of topics including prosocial action, innovation, family business, sustainability and development, and the financial, social, and psychological costs of failure. …”

“…The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell’s inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement for technological innovation only exacerbate a long-standing philosophical debate. Despite no-signaling theorems and theories of decoherence, deep-rooted conflicts between special relativistic principles and observed quantum correlations as well as between definite measurement outcomes and quantum theoretical superpositions persist. …”