From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better
known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens …

The category" organism" has an ambiguous status: is it scientific or is it philosophical? Or, if
one looks at it from within the relatively recent field or sub-field of philosophy of biology, is it …

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European
and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a …

To call something'monstrueux'in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder
at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth' …

This book visits the'Thing'in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in
literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and …

The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European
colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks …

El artículo indaga la noción de monstruo a partir de los desarrollos de Georges Canguilhem
y Michel Foucault. Canguilhem se centra en los estudios teratológicos, donde la …

Strangers, Gods, and monsters are all names for the experience of alterity and otherness
within and amongst us. We need monsters in our lives. In this paper we use philosophy as a …

A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis,
malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu. Most of us think that in order to be …

The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of
early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading …