Collection of the Papers Presented at the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra, Issues in Contemporary Western Philosophy, Volume 6

This book is the sixth volume of the selected papers of the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra and includes the following categories: phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and post-modernism, analytic philosophy, contemporary philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

The titles of some of the papers and their writers are as follows:

• Phenomenology of Life: Creative Experience & the New Philosophical Paradigm, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

• Sartre on Freedom and Responsibility: An Analytical Study, D.R. Bhandari

• Mantic and Semantic, Wolfram Hogrebe

• Philosophy of Reading: Recent Issues in Contemporary Hermeneutics, Diego Sanchez- Meca

• Hermeneutics of Open Systems, Laszlo Ropoly

• Meaning, Proposition, and Speech Acts, Rolando M. Gripaldo

• An Overview of Recent Western Philosophy, Joseph Margolis

• Philosophy in 'Post-Philosophical' Times, Karen Gloy

• Metaphysics at the End of the Century, Tom Rockmore

• Communication, Language and Inter-Cultural Understanding, George Meggle

• Syntactic Theory: Functional Categories and Features in a Chomskian Framework, Elly Van Gelderen

• The Concepts of Metaphor and Truth: An Indian Perspective, Raghunath Ghosh

This book consists of 31 papers and the biodata of the writers of the papers and has been published in 524 pages by the Sadra Islamic philosophy Institute.