Towards Post-Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy of Comparative Law

Indian Philosophy of Mind: A Comparative Study

In this paper I explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in India and the West. In particular, I compare the Nyaya School of India with Cartesian dualism and its Western defenders and the Carvaka School of India with contemporary Western materialists.

Towards a philosophy of energy

Transition to a sustainable energy regime is one of the key global societal challenges for the coming decades. Many technological innovations are in the pipeline, but an uncritical appraisal of anything and everything called green innovation lacks methods for testing both the necessity and the sufficiency of these developments. We propose to develop a philosophy of energy to fill this lacuna. I...

Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment

The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieni...

Towards a philosophy for neuroethics

Early in the twenty-first century, neuroscience has developed into a major research field that is rapidly spawning new academic disciplines. One of these is neuroethics, which has been described as an “unexplored continent lying between the two populated shores of ethics and of neuroscience” and “a new area of intellectual and social discourse” (Roskies, 2002). However, neuroethics is not a new...