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Infinity and the Mind - The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infi...

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...

Integralism - A Manual of Political Philosophy

Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in C...

Intelligent Democracy - Answering the New Democratic Scepticism

Whether due to Donald Trump, Brexit, or the rise of populism, many are increasingly questioning the value of democracy. Complaints of ign...

Intentionality Deconstructed - An Anti-Realist Theory

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional con...

Intergenerational Democracy, Environmental Justice and the Case of Nuclear Waste

This book explores the interplay between intergenerational justice and intra-generational justice using nuclear waste management as a con...

INTERIOR LIGHTS In A Dark Universe

INTERIOR LIGHTS expresses a philosophy of interior self and a defense of metaphysical reality. The bulk of the book is composed of "trech...

Introducing Ken Wilber - Concepts for an Evolving World

Ken Wilber's revolutionary thinking is beginning to shift the orientation of Western culture. Wilber combines his knowledge as mystic, sc...

Jacques Rancière

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to...

Kōsō-Ryoku: Conceptualizing Capability - For Innovation and Management in the Age of Para-Existence

This book examines conceptualizing capability (k¿s¿-ryoku), the most important ability for thriving in the era of innovation. A new appro...

Kairós - In Defence of 'Due Time'

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to to...

Kant and the Feeling of Life - Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

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 ...

Landscape Aesthetics - Toward an Engaged Ecology

This book challenges the common understanding of landscape and aesthetics as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies an...

Language Mysticism - The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and...

Law, Animals and Toxicity Testing - The Case of the Laboratory Mouse

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime an...

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...

Learning from Words - Testimony as a Source of Knowledge

Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by t...

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...

Leibniz's Dynamics - Origin and Structure of a New Science

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) launched a new science dedicated to the theory of force. His "dynamics" is an important episode in ...

Letters from a Stoic

My dear Reader, within this book are one hundred and twenty-four letters on the subject of morals written from the philosopher Seneca to ...

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chao...

Life Is Short - An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful

"This brief book attempts to provide a 21st-century version of Seneca's classic essay, On the Shortness of Life. Like Seneca, Rickles see...

LIFE Questions - Answering LIFE Questions helps us to find a deeper condition within ourselves.

Life Questions is an open invitation for readers to explore the nuances of life's biggest questions. It mixes philosophical and spiritual...

Light - Reason and Destination of Freemasonry

The Symbolism of Light plays an important role in Masoniccustoms. Where does this Vocation and the Search for Lightcome from? So what is ...

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight - Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Inst...

Literature and Ecotheology - From Chaos to Cosmos

This book challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology....

Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality - A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can...

Logic: A Very Short Introduction

Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the ...

Logic and Information

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

Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation - Theory and Applications

This timely volume assembles leading authorities on the theory and applications of Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation, the world's foremo...

Logic in High Definition - Trends in Logical Semantics

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics. Consisting of 10 contributions, the vol...

Logic of Statistical Inference

One of Ian Hacking's earliest publications, this book showcases his early ideas on the central concepts and questions surrounding statist...

Lógos and Máth¿ma 2 - Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

The volume consists of thirteen papers devoted to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. They can be divided into t...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mahatma Gandhi - The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being

A biographical account of the man who became one with the universal being. Gandhi is considered the father of India and was an Indian nat...

Making CO2 a Resource - The Interplay Between Research, Innovation and Industry

This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste, and as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest...

Making Sense in Common - A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse

A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense? as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on A...

Man, Morals and Society

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

Manifestly Haraway

Donna J. Haraway is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cru...

Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The 'Enneads' Commentary

This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino...

Marx

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

Marxism and Intersectionality - Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism

What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by conside...

Materialist Phenomenology - A Philosophy of Perception

Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manu...

Mathematics, Models, and Modality - Selected Philosophical Essays

Burgess's essays address key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation.

Meinongianism

Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this ...

Metachemistry

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

Metahistory - The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White¿s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historic...

Metaphysical Disputations III and IV - On Being's Passions in General and Its Principles and on Transcendental Unity in General

"Francisco Suâarez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of Early Modern Scholasticism. Although Suâarez...

Metaphysics - A Contemporary Introduction

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh lo...

Metaphysics - An Introduction

Combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides ...

Metaphysics, Religion, and Heresy - In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of François Laruelle (Part 2)

This special issue of Labyrinth is the second part of a diptych dedicated to the eminent French philosopher François Laruelle in honor of...

Methods and Skills for Philosophy - An Advanced Guide

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to philosophical methods. It is a must-read for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate studen...

Mindprints - Thoreau's Material Worlds

"We tend to associate Henry David Thoreau with the renunciation of material possessions, projecting onto him our fantasies of a life live...

Mirroring Brains - How we understand others from the inside

Mirroring Brains provides a new interpretation of the property and function of mirror neurons, allowing readers an insight into a fundame...

Modernism's Inhuman Worlds

"Study of animal metaphor in particular and the literary representation of animals more generally in the Victorian and modernist periods"--

Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge," discusses the value of intuitions in...

Morals in the Melting Pot

First published in 1948, Morals in the Melting Pot is an important historical reference work addressing some of the age-old moral dilemma...

Moral Theory - An Introduction

Moral Theory explores historically important and currently debated moral theories, including divine command theory, relativism, natural l...

Much Like Us - What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals

What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions ...