Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1. Philosophies and controversies
6. Chapter 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz 7
7. Chapter 2. Locke’s and Leibniz’s virtual debate over Of our knowledge of the existence of God 29
8. Chapter 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity 49
9. Chapter 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? 69
10. Chapter 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes 85
11. Chapter 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine 105
12. Section 2. Dialogue and controversies
13. Chapter 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices 127
14. Chapter 8. The absence of God 145
15. Chapter 9. Listening to the other 161
16. Chapter 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era 179
17. Chapter 11. The beleaguered filibuster of the US Senate 201
18. Chapter 12. The ruins of the political 217
19. Chapter 13. Coordination games and disagreement 241
20. Chapter 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism 261
21. Chapter 15. The “water memory affair” 279
22. About the contributors 297
23. Subject index 303