Despite the significance of suffering, illness, and disability, for long time little attention has been devoted to the moral flourishing of individuals living with chronic […]
Category: Philosophy
Mimesis International brings together a selection of books addressing a range of fundamental ideas within the latest, global philosophical debates. Presenting well known thinkers together with emerging voices, our books are written in a clear and concise way, making them suitable both for academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Ethics and the Artificial Image. Accountability and Reliability for a New Status of the Visual
The book focuses on the emerging ethical issues related to the dissemination of images produced by artificial intelligence. With the introduction of generative AI, it […]
A Materialist Conception of Knowledge. The Colonial Roots of Cognitive Capitalism
This book develops a materialist conception of knowledge by uncovering its entanglement with the history of colonial capitalism. Against accounts that frame cognitive capitalism and […]
Genesis and Structure of Society. Essay on Practical Philosophy
Genesis and Structure of Society, Giovanni Gentile’s last work, was based on a university course and published posthumously in 1946. Between August and September 1943, […]
Seeds of Equanimity. Knowing and Being
“Seeds of Equanimity deftly provides the reader with a praxis for negotiating the human journey from a disequanimous to an equanimous mind. Uebel makes it […]
Hard-wired Psychology and Moral Change. Evolution and the limits of human cognition and cooperation
Evolutionary psychology claims that human cognition results from adaptations to ancestral environments. We have computational limits that make us myopic because farsighted traits made no […]
Digital Entanglements and the Emergence of New Materiality. A Phenomenological and Postphenomenological Analysis of Augmented Reality
Grounded in a decade of research and building on the author’s doctoral thesis, this volume examines Augmented Reality (AR) through phenomenological and postphenomenological lenses. Emphasizing […]
Bertrand Russell’s Idealist Heritage. A Neglected Legacy
Bertrand Russell’s research on logic is believed, alongside Wittgenstein’s and Moore’s works, to have fuelled the linguistic turn that characterized much of twentieth-century philosophy. This […]
Philosophy and Madness From Kant to Hegel and Beyond
This book aims to reflect on mental illness through considering the influence that Criticism and German Idealism exerted on directions of philosophical, scientific and psychoanalytical […]