Locke on Freedom, Moral Agency, and the Space of Reasons by Valtteri Viljanen

“…Locke’s ambitious theory aims to incorporate two strong philosophical intuitions widely held incompatible: that our will is free and that impulses affect our choices. …”
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MU’TEZİLE EKOLÜ VE AKLIN BELİRLEYİCİLİĞİ by Osman Aydınlı

“…The distinctive feature of the Mu‘tazilite school is to have laid down its fundamental principles as al-usfil al-khamsa (five fundamentals) and concentrated on theological and philosophical issues. Within the Mutazila, due to their different approaches to the imamate and politics, there emerged two main streams, the schools of Baghdad and Basra. …”
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Bricolage and Social Entrepreneurship to Address Emergent Social Needs: A “Deconstructionist” Perspective by Lamberto Zollo, Riccardo Rialti, Cristiano Ciappei, Andrea Boccardi

“…Building on a postmodernist philosophical perspectve, namely Jacques Derrida’s “deconstructonism,” we atempt to unpack the bricolage phenomenon within the social entrepreneurship feld. …”
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Die klassieke retoriek as basis vir hedendaagse openbare spraakkommunikasieleerinhoude by Frederick Terblanche

“…What has changed considerably, is the human concept of the fundamental nature and scope of communication principles and contexts, the perspectives from which it is approached and its ontological and philosophical basis. The ordering and systemisation of these are naturally expressed in a more comprehensive and scientific conceptual system than was the case in the classical era. …”
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Credibility and the Critique of the Theory of the Veritable Nature of Human Sciences with Emphasis on Jurisprudence and Law by Mohammad Reza Asadi, Seyed Saieed Lavasani

“…The theory of conventions is the basis of Islamic humanities, if it is viewed from a philosophical and holistic perspective and taken as part of existential discussions. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). The paper discloses the civilizational features and stages of the evolution of the elite. …”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“…The latter notion is understood in a Platonic-Augustinian fashion – following the interpretation of the contemporary philosophical-theological movement of Radical Orthodoxy – as a diffuse recognition of the other within the self, whereby the politics of reconciliation is, in an important sense, broadened to encompass the interior, psychic and, ultimately, spiritual aspects of the relation between the self and the other. …”
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Resources within Spiritual and Mystical Christian Traditions for the Care of Earth – our Common Home by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…It is not surprising, therefore, that for several decades the study of the ecological crisis has been undertaken by philosophers and religologists who seek inspirations for ways to shape an environmentally friendly lifestyle in various religious traditions. …”
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Defensa de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, actor de la Independencia mexicana by Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling

“…The character’s key is his love for liberty. He knows the philosophers very well, yet he’s an authentic catholic as far as faith and cult are concerned. …”
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Phenomenology of Fire Image in the Poems of Akhavan Sales based on Gaston Bachelard Thoughts by Nematollah Iranzadeh, Shahnaz Arsh Akmal

“…Gaston Bachelard, the philosopher, epistemologist and French man of letters is including those people who discuss imagination and what shapes it. …”
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Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“… This philosophical reflection on time, space and matter in the debate creationevolution accepts that the universe came into existence as a number of acts of deliberate supernatural creation by an already existing God. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Farhang Ershad

“…The aim of Thomas Kuhn in writing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was to prepare an analysis in the field of the philosophical history of science and to explain the changes and continuity of scientific institutions. …”
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Political Psychology and the Possibility of Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Political Issue: A Critique on the Book Political Psychology by Aliashraf Nazari

“…In the meantime, political psychology has attempted to bridge the gap between psychological, sociological, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and linguistic issues, in spite of the complexities that exist in different scientific fields, and to open new possibilities for reflection on political transformations. …”
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A Review of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics: A Reading of Benedict Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Seyyed Mustafa Shahraeeni, Mohammad Sina Mirzaei

“…However, Bagley holds that it is a book about theology and politics that is written by a philosopher. More precisely, it is a treatise written by someone whose allegiance is to philosophy rather than either to theology or to politics. …”
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The Debate Between Realism and Formalism in Contemporary International Law (Emphasizing the Procedure of the International Court of Justice) by Sepanta Mojtahedzadeh

“…Legal realism and legal formalism as two methods of judicial decision-making in national and international courts have been hot theoretical and philosophical topics among writers, judges, and lawyers in recent decades. …”
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Les écrits philosophiques d’Yves Simon aux États-Unis (1939-1945). Essai de biographie intellectuelle by Bernard Hubert

“…The French philosopher Yves R. Simon, who was a lecturer from 1938 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, published, on the one hand, Nature and Functions of Authority (1940) and, on the other hand, several writings in English about political philosophy (“Liberty and Authority”; “Thomism and Democracy”; “Beyond the Crisis of Liberalism”) in 1941-1942. …”
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آرنلڈ جوزیف ٹائن بی کی تاریخ بینی کے تناظر میں امت اسلامیہ کی وحدت میں رکاو ٹوں کامطالعہ by Dr. Muzaffar Ali, Dr. Abdul Rahman Abdul Hameed Hammad

“…This research aims to provide a brief overview of Toynbee’s life and his philosophical influences, specifically Ibn Khaldun. The methodology involves an analysis of Toynbee’s writings and their reception among Muslim historians. …”
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Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics by Olayinka Oyeleye

“…The theoretical implications of Feminist narrative ethics is then applied to the philosophical imports of Yorùbá proverbs about women as a way to tease out how female subordination is grounded in Yorùbá ontology and ethics. …”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…Bonaventure was a theologian and philosopher first of all. He shows us St. Francis as a perfect follower of Jesus. …”
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Can Humanities Be Understood as Technology? A Critique on the Book Humanities as Technology by Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Movahed Abtahi

“…In recent years, the topics of philosophy of humanities, philosophy of technology and the role of humanities and technology in the process of development have been widely welcomed. A philosophical discussion about the relation of science and technology, especially the relation of humanities, programs, and institutions as soft technologies, can assist in science and technology policymaking in human and social life. …”
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