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Warum schweigen die Lämmer?
In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten wurde die Demokratie in einer beispiellosen Weise ausgehöhlt. Demokratie wurde durch die Illusion von Demokratie ersetzt, die freie öffentliche Debatte durch ein Meinungs- und Empörungsmanagement, das Leitideal des mündigen Bürgers durch das des politisch apathischen Konsumenten. Wahlen spielen mittlerweile für grundlegende politische Fragen praktisch keine Rolle mehr. Die wichtigen politischen Entscheidungen werden von politisch-ökonomischen Gruppierungen getroffen, die weder demokratisch legitimiert noch demokratisch rechenschaftspflichtig sind. Die destruktiven ökologischen, sozialen und psychischen Folgen dieser Form der Elitenherrschaft bedrohen immer mehr unsere Gesellschaft und unsere Lebensgrundlagen. Rainer Mausfeld deckt die Systematik dieser Indoktrination auf, zeigt dabei auch ihre historischen Konstanten und macht uns sensibel für die vielfältigen psychologischen Beeinflussungsmethoden.
Colour Perception
Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In Colour Perception: Mind and the physical world, leading scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neurophysiology, and computational vision provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colour. Written in a non-technical style and accessible to an interdisciplinary audience, the book will provide an invaluable resource for researchers in colour perception and the cognitive sciences.
Dynamic Being
One of the most important characteristics of present day ontological research is the growing interest in, and emphasis on, the dynamic aspects of being and the process-relational character of being itself. However, many important questions still await detailed answers. For example, what is the meaning of the concepts of “dynamics,” “dynamicity,” and “dynamic ontology,” among others? Are they identical to, or similar with, respectively, “processes,” “process ontology,” “process-relational ontology”? Is “process ontology” a type of “dynamic ontology”? Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology examines these and many other questions, and suggests fruit...
Color Ontology and Color Science
Leading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools are applied to the most sophisticated color science.Philosophers and scientists have long speculated about the nature of color. Atomists such as Democritus thought color to be "conventional," not real; Galileo and other key figures of the Scientific Revolution thought that it was an erroneous projection of our own sensations onto external objects. More recently, philosophers have enriched the debate about color by aligning the most advanced color science with the most sophisticated methods of analytical philosophy. In this volume, leading scientists and philosophers examine n...
International Handbook of Violence Research
An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, espe cially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. ...
Consciousness and Mind
This volume gathers together the work of David Rosenthal on the philosophical study of consciousness from the past 20 years and represents his theory of consciousness as higher-order thought. An introduction draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications.
Babylon Apocalypse
WHY? We live in "a monstrous time for which we have no name yet" says philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. This book contains essays I wrote during the years 2018 and 2019 to wrap my mind around three questions: WHY is it that our gorgeous western culture is obviously racing towards the Apocalypse? WHY is it that this is a well known scientific fact, and yet nobody seems to care? HOW can a feeling and thinking person, driven by reason as well as moral and empathy, live during such monstrous times? Writing helped me to find answers. It helped me to develope a political consciousness. And it helped me to remain mentally stable during monstrous times. May this book help others too.
Recognizing Reality
"[Children and young people] should know --and really sense and feel --that viruses are not 'evil' but a part of our organism, of our organic 'self,' and that also the group of mutable coronaviruses has been known for many years; we also live with them and deal with them, especially in the upper respiratory tract, although not with SARS-CoV-2, which is a new challenge for the human immune system, though not quite as new as initially assumed." -- Peter Selg Recognizing Reality is a clarion call for broader perspectives in a time of global crisis, for a differentiated understanding of current events, especially Covid, and for a deepening of dialogue, in Martin Buber's sense of the word. In thi...
Looking Into Pictures
In this text, philosophers, psychologists and art historians explore the implications of theories of vision for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and picture perception.
The Spiritual Signature of our Time
What can we read in the fast-moving events of recent times? Is there a theme – a spiritual signature – that should be recognized and understood? Following on from the book of essays Perspectives and Initiatives in the Times of Coronavirus, key figures from the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum assess critical societal issues in a series of striking lectures. In the context of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, the speakers address questions such as: ‘Are we making a religion out of science?’, ‘How is our behaviour mirrored in the ecosystem?’ and ‘What effects do inner work and meditation have on the healing powers of the human being?’ Offering scientific, artistic,...
