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Meditations - A New Translation

Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. Few...

The Precipice - 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker

What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for hum...

The God Delusion. 10th Anniversary Edition

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins hims...

The Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton is the author of Essays in Love, The Romantic Movement, Kiss and Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations ...

Justice - What's the Right Thing to Do?

A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we...

The Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl (Author) Judea Pearl is a world-renowned Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, known for his world-leading wor...

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

This is the only complete modern translation of Epictetus' Discourses, together with the Handbook and fragments. A major work of Stoic pr...

Being Ecological

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory in 2014 and has collaborate...

The Idea of Justice

Is justice merely an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?...

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

This dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Compr...

All Art is Ecological

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological expl...

Who Am I and If So How Many? - A Journey Through Your Mind

Drawing on philosophy neuroscience, psychology, history, and even pop culture, Richard David Precht deftly elucidates the questions at th...

Object-Oriented Ontology - A New Theory of Everything

What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we und...

The Frontiers of Knowledge - What We Know About Science, History and The Mind

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker _________________________ In very recent times humanity has learnt ...

Hermeneutics - Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern cond...

Why Vegan?

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unf...

21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges

Business and society thinker Handy considers the challenges that the next generation faces and prescribes the best possible philosophical...

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence - Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do

Futurists are certain that humanlike AI is on the horizon, but in fact engineers have no idea how to program human reasoning. AI reasons ...

AI Ethics

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address con...

Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom, and considers how we should t...

Heidegger in China and Japan

The modern developments of Chinese and Japanese philosophical traditions have engaged in depth with Heidegger's philosophy, but what is t...

Goodbye

Buddhist Hymns - A New Collection

Based on a newly discovered Sanskrit manuscript from Tibet, the book contains new editions of Candragomins's Jambhalastotra and Desanasta...

Needful Structures - The Dialectics of Action, Technology, and Society in Sartre's Later Philosophy

How do humans, their needs, and technology interact in society? Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs ...

The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity; Forces That Bring Riches to You

The Meritocratic Promise of Classical Liberalism - Restoring Equality of Opportunity in the Age of Market Triumphalism

In an era of Market Triumphalism, this book follows the quest to address a myriad of prominent socio-economic pathologies in Western demo...

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia

General Theory of Knowledge

First published in Germany in 1918, this acutely reasoned treatise attacks many of philosophy's contemporary sacred cows, including the c...

Are We Bodies or Souls? - Revised edition

What makes us human? Richard Swinburne presents new philosophical arguments, supported by modern neuroscience, for the view that we are i...

Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

While human beings have probably always been fascinated by images, we live in an image-obsessed age in which images powerfully shape our ...

Slap in the Face - Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't

In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social rel...

Norms and Necessity

Philosophical theories often hinge on claims about what is necessary or possible. But what are possibilities and necessities, and how cou...

Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

Drinking Molotov Cocktails With Gandhi attacks the very roots of the world's crises and reframes our understanding of how to solve them. ...

Disobedient Bodies - Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'A magnificent text...

Technology and the Virtues - A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting

New technologies from artificial intelligence to drones, and biomedical enhancement make the future of the human family increasingly hard...

The Schelling Reader

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradit...

An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

From respected philosopher and writer Jonathan Wolff, this brief introduction to ethics stimulates independent thought, emphasises real-w...

A Gradual Awakening

In this intelligent, accessible work, acclaimed poet and meditation teacher Stephen Levine introduces readers to meditation. Filled with ...

Ethics under the Aspect of Constructive Realism

Ethics is a wide field which has contradicting argumentation. This book tries to open the foundations of ethics by the means of philosoph...

Laziness Does Not Exist

"Laziness Does Not Exist" is a transformative guide that challenges the conventional notion of laziness and empowers readers to break fre...

Good Thinking - What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser

Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing hi...

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life

A book rich in personal and practical wisdom pointing to the meaning of a religious life and its promised happiness.

The Force of Nonviolence - An Ethico-Political Bind

Judith Butler shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues...

Metaphysical Animals - How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL...

Are You an Illusion?

Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science¿s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of comm...

My Fair Lady.

Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form ...

The Time of the Landscape - On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution

Translation of: Le temps du paysage: aux origines de la râevolution esthâetique. Paris: La Fabrique âeditions, [2020].

For the Good of the World - Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

System Error - Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK LOOKING AT HOW BIG TECH IS OBSESSED WITH OPTIMIZATION -- AND HOW WE CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL

Theorizing Justice in Contemporary Arabo-Islamic Philosophy - A Transcultural Approach with Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun

What is »justice« from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to ...

How to Think About Weird Things ISE

How to Think about Weird Things is a concise and engaging text that offers students a step-by-step process by which to determine when a c...

Ethics - An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

One of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn.

Social Robotics and the Good Life - The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds With Robots

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years,...

The Evolutionary Mind - Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit

Three acclaimed authors engage in conversation blending scientific observation, mythical imagination, and visionary speculation.

The Universe Next Door - A Basic Worldview Catalog

In this new fifth edition, Sire offers student-friendly introductions to a variety of concepts: theism; deism; naturalism; Marxism; nihil...

Visual Turn - Platon - Descartes - Kant - Cassirer. The Turn from Empiricism, Analytic Philosophy and Naturalism to a Modern Rationalistic Neo-Kantianism

Moonshadows - Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy

In Moonshadows, the Cowherds, a team of ten scholars of Buddhist Studies, address the nature of conventional truth as it is understood in...

Towards Non-Being

Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existen...

Believe In Yourself

First published in 1955, "Believe in Yourself" by Dr. Joseph Murphy, the Irish-American author and New Thought minister with a Ph.D. in P...