http://196.191.116.215/handle/1235678/184 2026-05-17T01:18:02Z http://196.191.116.215/handle/12345687/77167 The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism Bydén, Börje Gordon F. Davis,Department of Philosophy, Carleton University This volume has three main aims. The first aim is to explore interconnections between metaphysical questions about the nature of selfhood and ethical questions concerning the practical implications of revising or subverting various traditional conceptions of selfhood and personhood. Another aim, much more general but equally important, is to raise problems and new prospects for both comparative philosophy and cross-cultural philosophy. The focus on Buddhist philosophy, in particular, highlights a third aim of our project: to throw light on the ways in which Buddhist philosophy in particular has either anticipated, echoed or contributed to seminal episodes in the history of Western philosophy. Many of the chapters here focus on philosophical ideas without belabouring historical details (though the first offers an overview of the historical connections that link the history of Buddhist philosophy – at certain points – with the history of Western philosophy). Several of vi our chapters engage in doing Buddhist philosophy; but at the same time, these chapters directly or indirectly highlight the potential for treating the Buddhist tradition as an element in a comparative case study. We raise, albeit tentatively in some cases, the questions of whether, and why, two independent traditions of philosophy would end up tackling similar philosophical problems, not to mention tackling what might be the same meta-problem – namely, of how the metaphysical problems and the ethical problems do or should relate to each other. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://196.191.116.215/handle/12345687/77153 Ethics Dumping Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations Schroeder, Doris Doris Schroeder • Julie Cook, François Hirsch • Solveig Fenet, Vasantha Muthuswamy This book aims to raise awareness of the topic of unethical research and therefore presents case studies of exploitative research conducted in LMICs. Funded by the European Commission, it brings together experts on this topic from around the world. Adhering closely to an important feature of responsible research and innovation, namely societal engagement, the book has directly involved highly vulnerable populations in its outputs (LMIC sex workers and indigenous peoples). 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://196.191.116.215/handle/12345687/77150 Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism Bland, Steven Steven Bland,Huron University College at Western University This book is a study of twin threats that strike at the heart of analytic philosophy: Pyrrhonian scepticism and epistemic relativism. Scepticism and relativism are often understood as epistemic doctrines whose main purpose is to undermine philosophers’ views about knowledge and justifcation. Sceptics claim that none of our beliefs can be properly justifed, and therefore knowledge of any kind is unattainable. Relativists maintain that knowledge and justifcation can be attained, but only within systems of presuppositions and methods whose epistemic authority is unavoidably local. In either case, philosophers cannot possess the kind of absolute knowledge they think of themselves as having or striving towards. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://196.191.116.215/handle/12345687/77146 Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation B. Mills, Frederick Frederick B. Mills, Bowie State University This monograph aims to make basic concepts in Enrique Dussel’s ethics of liberation more accessible to English language readers. Dussel’s infuence has been felt in the Global South for more than fve decades, but his voice is still not suffciently heard north of the Rio Grande. By reaching a broader audience, I seek to contribute to the dissemination of Dussel’s principled defense of human life and the biosphere at a time when both are threatened with catastrophe by the ravages of Western instrumental rationality.1 I intend, in particular, to articulate Dussel’s analectic method and show how the ethical principles developed in his magnum opus, Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion (1998/2013), form the basis of norms in the economic and political felds. I argue that these norms provide a moral compass for those committed to transforming the prevailing system and advancing a planetary humanism. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z