Matthew A. MacDonald

We commonly assume that religion is simply part of a person's identity, a preference, or a choice. This is a result of the modern liberal rejection of all but empirical knowledge and the corresponding public rejection of metaphysics. This makes it impossible to make philosophica…

This thesis analyzes the political history of the Indian subcontinent up to the creation of India and Pakistan. Relying on the distinction between 'space' and 'place', it argues that the root cause of Pakistan's chronic instability is that the modern state system, with political…