Philosophy

How can we change our minds about the standards we use to change our minds? Leading philosophers, historians, and scholars of religion take up this paradox, engaging critically with the theory of rational self-criticism set out in The View from Within: testing, instantiating, extending, and challenging it.

Arie W. Zwiep traces the history of biblical interpretation from antiquity to the present. He shows how text, reader, and context interact to shape meaning and give rise to a plurality of interpretations, and how changing historical and cultural contexts continue to reshape the understanding of Scripture.

The work provides an overview of debates in political philosophy, ethics, and legal philosophy, highlighting their connections with law and legal policy. It is aimed at students and scholars who wish to learn about fundamental debates and new developments in related disciplines.

The contributions in this volume address Schelling's final and thoroughly revised late philosophy. From the mid-1840s onward, Schelling subjected his philosophy to a fundamental revision that, through strikingly modern philosophical methods, aims at a genuinely critically-compliant metaphysics.