Scholastic disputation, the formalized procedure of debate in the medieval university, is one
of the hallmarks of intellectual life in premodern Europe. Modeled on Socratic and …

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western
philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the …

A narrative history of Central Asia after the Greek dynasties and before IslamCentral Asia is
commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern …

21 century international mindedness: An exploratory study of its conceptualisation and
assessment Page 1 IB research paper 21 st century international mindedness: An …

This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was
geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself …

Global history looms large in current historiography, yet its heuristic design and political
functions remain ill‐reflected. My article seeks to uncover the historical origins of the …

This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan.
Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of …

Globalization has produced contradictory processes that promote the movement of people
and ideas across geographical and epistemological boundaries yet continue to reinforce the …

Buddhism contributed to the culture and politics of thirteenth-century Eurasian intellectual
exchange, depositing literary, artistic, and architectural traces subsequently eclipsed by …

The term 'aporia'(perplexity, impasse, obstacle, doubt, puzzle) is frequent throughout
Aristotle's works. This essay summarises Aristotle's explicit accounts of aporia, then explores …