In this paper I will consider and examine the figure and work of Daisaku Ikeda, a Japanese Buddhist master, philosopher and writer. It seems impossible to separate within it creed from argument, faith from reason, and religion from philosophy. In particular, Ikeda’s philosophy of human revolution is the contemporary reelaboration of Nichiren’s interpretation and practice of the Lotus Sutra. I w...

This piece replies to a recently published article in the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion by J. L. Schellenberg and Paul Draper. They contend that field African philosophy religion needs renewal, they make several recommendations on how achieve this. I agree with their recommendations, but argue have omitted crucial problem solution renew field; namely, fundamental is it systemicall...

This paper is a critical reflection on the teaching of the new Philosophy and Ethics course in a low socioeconomic context in Perth, Western Australia. It charts the successes and failures of the Philosophy and Ethics course, leading to the eventual demise of the subject at the end of 2010. We frame this reflection within Deleuzean notions of geophilosophy to advocate for a Philosophy and Ethic...

This year AAMAS conference introduced a perspective track for“papers that analyze in some way the agent research community”. The aim of this track is to understand what the trends are in agent research and foresee possible future directions. Instead of looking at where the agent community is going in an emergent way analyzing numerical trends, with this article we want to suggest where agent re...

different concepts and approaches toward god in western theology and philosophy, from greek period to modern age, has regarded from negative theology view point. but this concepts and approaches at the same time can be regarded from new perspective in modern age. in other word, it can be shown that in the modern age we can see a negative theology, i.e. refutation of resemblance between god and ...