Product Description: Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own conduct regarding it...read more

Product Description: Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most creative and original Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. This volume offers a restropective of Jonas' life and works by bringing together historians of modern Germany, Judaica scholars, philosophers, bioethicists, and enviornmentalists to reflect on the meaning of his legacy today...read more

Product Description: Contemporary scholarship has given rise to several different modes of understanding biophysical and human nature, each of which is entangled with related notions of science and religion. Envisioning Nature, Science, and Religion represents the culmination of three years of collaboration by an international group of fourteen natural scientists, social scientists, humanists, and theologians...read more

Product Description: The papers in this collected volume analyse Kant´s nature philosophy against the background of the history of its development and of its continuation in the opus postumum, in Hegel´s work and in the later debate in the context of its significance for systematicity and justification theory...read more

Product Description: Traditional scholarship has generally neglected the philosophy of nature of Greek Neoplatonism; in the last decades, however, this attitude changed radically: natural philosophy has increasingly been regarded as a crucial aspect of late antique thought; furthermore, several studies outlined the impressive historical legacy of Neoplatonic physics...read more

Product Description: One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants...read more

Product Description: This title includes text in English and Danish. A persistent theme of the 20th century has been a critique of metaphysics. But the limitations of this critique are manifesting themselves more and more clearly. Among them is the fact that both inner and outer nature have form and structure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. Philosophers have to some extent neglected the study of nature and the natural environment, and this collection not only provides a long-overdue contribution to that study, but also points to inadequacies of much contemporary ethical and political theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)