123 Books

The idea of progress has many dimensions. Robert Nicholls addresses the question of whether or not progress is occurring in human society. If progress is occurring what exactly is it that is...

In the first part of the book the author outlines Arthur Schopenhauer's metaphysical position and identifies a tension which exists at the core of this position. In the second part of the book the...

We ordinarily take the universe to be as it appears to us to be. So, when one observes a red rose in one's garden, one ordinarily assumes that the part of the universe that is one's garden contains a...

According to contemporary physics the phenomena of dark matter, dark energy and quantum wavefunctions exist in the universe. In this book Robert Rose explores possible links between these three...

How similar are humans to the non-human universe? Many people believe that there are obvious similarities between humans and some non-human animals, however, the similarities between humans and...

As the title suggests this is a collection of individual but interconnected reflections concerning humans and their surroundings. The book starts with a consideration of human 'world views' - the way...

What is the relationship between a perceiver of colour and the unperceived world? Does the unperceived world contain colour? Where is colour located when a perceiver perceives colour? The author...

The concept of 'having a mind' is one of the key concepts that we use to carve a division of extreme significance into the universe. We say that parts of the universe 'have a mind' and that parts of...

There are a very diverse range of views concerning the nature of awareness, perception and experience. In this book John King considers both the nature of the three individual phenomena and the...