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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers

Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? From the metaphysics of Plato to the nihilism of Nietzsche, this engagi...

Gongsheng Across Contexts - A Philosophy of Co-Becoming

This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/ky¿sei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only translate ¿symbiosis¿ i...

We Are Free to Change the World - Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

"In the months after Donald Trump's election, Hannah Arendt's seminal work, The Origins of Totalitarianism crashed onto the Amazon bestse...

O My Friends, There is No Friend - The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive...

Origins of the Just War - Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East

"A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East. Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and comp...

Speaking for Others - The Ethics of Informal Political Representation

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were never elected. ...

The Self and its Disorders

Shaun Gallagher puts forward a pluralist account of the self, and a philosophical account of psychiatric disorders as disorders of the se...

The Ethics of Remote Warfare

Ethical approaches to war require that we don't value only the lives of 'our' people, as Realism asserts; that we don't enforce our sense...

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 ...

Humanly Possible - Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thin...

In Love with Spoons - A Spiritual Journey for Art Lovers and Food Enthusiasts

Embark on a culinary and spiritual journey with 'In Love With Spoons,' as it masterfully blends memoir, poetry, and art, transforming the...

Gadamer's Truth and Method - A Polyphonic Commentary

This book offers a fresh look at Gadamer's magnum opus, Truth and Method, which is widely recognized as a ground-breaking text of philoso...

Learning to Be Fair - Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

Learning to Be Fair excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, p...

The AI Mirror - How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

For many, AI technology inspires hope for the future-the promise of shared human flourishing and collective liberation from drudgery that...

The Welfare of Future Children - Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening

This practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening bas...

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 ...

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 ...

On Mysticism - The Experience of Ecstasy

Law Is a Moral Practice

What is law, and why does it matter? Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice-a tool for adjusting our moral relations. This cl...

Hospitality, Volume II

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others. Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacque...

What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in p...

What I Believe - Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by

An inspiring collection of interviews with prominent humanists about the values, convictions and opinions they live by

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...

Awkwardness - A Theory

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

Nihilism and Technology

Investigating how human values mediate the design and use of new technologies, the updated edition of Nolen Gertz's Nihilism and Technolo...

Metachemistry

Ruthenberg highlights the unique aspects of chemistry, specifically its metachemical fundamentals, which have been largely overlooked in ...

Marx

In this outstanding introduction to Marx's philosophy Jaime Edwards and Brian Leiter begin with an overview of Marx's life and intellectu...

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...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism - Towards a Philosophy of Conflict

The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonis...

Logic and Information

This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret i...

Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences

The book presents Transparent Intensional Logic in several of its latest realisations in such a way that it makes a case for the system a...

Seeing Double

The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at ...

The Complex Tapestry of Free Will - A Philosophical Odyssey

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of ...

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", a classic article in the philosophy o...

Thinking with Assent - Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief

Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; b...

What to Save and Why - Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation

What does a sanctuary for Hawaiian crows have in common with a troop of robots programmed to perform the M¿ori haka, or recreations of Wo...

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...

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...

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

This book is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness conditio...

The Fundamentals of Reasons

The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reaso...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 19

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It ...

Epistemic Courage

Epistemic Courage is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of belief, which shows why epistemology is no mere academic...

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia - A Novel Approach to Aesthetics

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aes...

Fernando Pessoa - Imagination and the Self

In this short book about the philosophy of the poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections with earlier phil...

Expertise - Philosophical Perspectives

This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the e...

The Practical Self

The Practical Self argues that self-consciousness requires faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking and that this faith is sustai...

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...

The Heart and Its Attitudes

Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans ach...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

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...

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...

Unreal Beliefs - An Anti-Realist Approach in the Metaphysics of Mind

Krzysztof Poslajko offers a novel version of an anti-realist view about beliefs, rejecting the extreme proposal of eliminativism that bel...

Defeating the Evil-God Challenge - In Defence of God's Goodness

Why is belief in a maximally good god significantly more reasonable than belief in a maximally evil god? Defending the view that argument...

Knowing - Unknowing - African Studies at the Crossroads

Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary ...

Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de Prima Lectura - Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition

This volume provides the first critical edition of the first redaction of the Questions on Aristotle's Meteorology by Nicole Oresme, one ...

Aesthetics of Weather

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

Knowing Covid-19 - The Pandemic and Beyond

This book explores how COVID-19 moved from being a mysterious and frightening novel infectious disease to something subject to an enormou...

Dancing with the Devil - Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

Most people think bad feelings--feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt--are obstacles to a good life. You're supposed to do your ...

Epistemic Blame - The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. Cam...