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"The book" - A life guide

A guide of many topics for young people: art, feelings, think, belief, health, nutrition, sport, sex, money

5-Minute Bedtime Stories

Twelve fairy tales by Maria Gvardeitseva based on the real stories of her friends For centuries, the breakup has been the prerogative of ...

A Commentary on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth ...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

Actor & Avatar - A Scientific and Artistic Catalog

What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in th...

Aesthetics of Care - Practice in Everyday Life

Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues that aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected ...

Aesthetics of Weather

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of ...

After Virtue

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark wo...

Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life - Beyond Nihilism and Morality

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer ...

Agents of Change - Political Philosophy in Practice

Ben Laurence argues for a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. He shows that the task of political...

A Heated Debate - Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science

Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeated...

A History of Western Philosophy

History Of Western Philosophy was published in 1946. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate ...

Alien Landscapes? - Interpreting Disordered Minds

Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles ...

A Little History of Philosophy

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his d...

A Livable Planet - Human Rights in the Global Economy

Madison Powers addresses a cluster of causally intertwined ecological crises that threaten our ability to maintain a livable planet, whic...

Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short introduction

Michael Beaney introduces analytic philosophy by exploring some of the key ideas of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Ludwig ...

Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science a...

An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence - Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

"What would it mean to make a decision against the acceleration of automation and for humanity? In An Artificial History of Natural Intel...

An Ethical View of Human-Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumeria...

A New History of Western Philosophy

Sir Anthony Kenny presents a fascinating and authoritative new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular reade...

Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals. It uncovers a rich stream of innovative...

Animal Liberation

How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuv...

Animal Liberation Now

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case fo...

Animal Liberation Now

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case fo...

An Introduction to Decision Theory

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

An introduction to Zen buddhism

A Philosophy of Political Myth

Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth.

Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context - Society, Culture and Language

This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of...

Arguments and Reason-Giving

Arguments figure in our everyday practices of giving reasons. For example, we use arguments to advance reasons to explain why we believe ...

Aristotelian Naturalism - A Research Companion

This book features many of the leading voices championing the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism (AN) in contemporary philoso...

Aristotle - The Complete Works

In "Aristotle: The Complete Works", the timeless relevance of Aristotle's ideas becomes clear. His relentless pursuit of knowledge, his k...

Aristotle's Revenge - The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Ar...

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years. Did he hold that happi...

Art and its Objects

This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

Art of Reasoning - An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Students learn logic by practicing it by working through problems, analyzing existing arguments, and constructing their own arguments in ...

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet - Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus Univ...

A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

An important contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. Ideal for all philosophy students interested in ethic...

Assemblage Theory and Method - An Introduction and Guide

What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applicat...

A Telic Theory of Trust

A Telic Theory of Trust approaches trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness. ...

At the Vanishing Point in History - Critical Perspectives on the Russian-Ukraine War

Putin's war has meant the return of the Russian intelligentsia-a concept that was all but dead in the first decade of the 2000s. At the V...

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition

The homogeneity of the Epicurean Garden and the unchangeability of the texts of Epicurus has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ...

A Wandering Dance Through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes - Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis. Engaging wi...

Awkwardness - A Theory

Awkwardness offers an overview of the psychology and philosophy of awkwardness, addressing questions like, Why do social interactions bec...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Hardcover Journal

Settle into a peaceful respite from the busy world with this hardcover ruled journal filled with uplifting quotes and illustrations from ...

Bioethics Across the Globe - Rebirthing Bioethics

This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with t...

Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine - Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation

Boycott Theory for Palestine aims to advance academic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) by presenting the fullest and most sophist...

Bulgarski glasove v chuzhbina: filosofski akcenti

The aim of the volume "Bulgarian Voices Abroad. Philosophical Accents" is to present the main ideas and achievements of authors of Bulgar...

Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, a...

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Midd...

Capital and Capitalism - Old Myths, New Futures

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not jus...

Capitalism and Crises - How to Fix Them

The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance to describe what has gone wrong, what ...

Changes in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism

The Hungarian and German authors of this book have examined the processes that took place in 18th century philosophy, aesthetics and othe...

Chapel Perilous - The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. Chapel Perilous: The Life and T...

Christian Wolff's German Ethics - New Essays

This volume offers a collective exploration of the moral philosophy of Christian Wolff, one of the great philosophers of the 18th century...

Claiming to Answer - How One Person Became the Response to our Deepest Questions

We need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views,...

Classical Confucian Political Thought - A New Interpretation

"Combining deep scholarship, theoretical imagination, and lucid prose, El Amine gives us a more complex and yet more accessible Confucius...

Concept Formation in Global Studies - Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge

This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Euroc...