The relation of art to nature

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of le...

Chapter 26 covers how Sir Francis Galton was the first to apply the Shakespearian phrase “nature and nurture” to human individual differences. The so-called nature–nurture debate b...

This chapter is divided into six sections. The first examines five stages in the development of Yogācāra: the early Yogācāra sūtras, the Yogācāra works of Maitreya, Asaṅga, Vasuban...

Humans and environment form a single continuum, part of a larger cosmic life. This, however, seems to imply that we are continuous even with the radioactive waste produced by the n...

An accessible ePub edition is available here   With 80% of wastewater globally discharged untreated and non-renewable energy resources rapidly depleti...

Chapter 9 claimed that a way to preserve ideas about truth-making is to think of truth differently for different sorts of claims. However, what, exactly is the connection between t...

Abstract Sir Peter Strawson is not just among the greatest living philosophers, but also the leading proponent of analytic Kantianism. His seminal Individuals rehabi...