this paper will examine how muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of divine unity (taw¤hīd), the quran, sunnah of the prophet muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the west in the twentieth century. the article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philos...

This volume covers five central controversies in current philosophy of mind. There are many more than five current controversies, but arguably the most interesting are those that play out some of the perennial problems of the philosophy of mind. For through the historical progression of philosophical dialectic, certain ancient philosophical problems have taken very specific shapes and have narr...

The field of artificial life is enriching both the content and method of philosophy. One example of the impact of artificial life on the content of philosophy is the light it sheds on the perennial philosophical question of the nature of emergent pheonomena in general. Another second example is the way it highlights and promises to explain the suppleness of mental processes. Artificial life's c...

In the decade or so since it first appeared, The Germ Theory of Management has been republished and downloaded countless times. It has been read and reread for its acute insight into the apparently perennial problem of why we struggle to adopt new theories that are aimed at improving our lives. It is thoroughly appreciated by those people who, having gained even a modicum of understanding and a...