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Leviathan

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

Materialist Phenomenology - A Philosophy of Perception

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

Essay on Man - An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

First published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

The Little Book of Humanist Weddings - Enduring inspiration for celebrating love and commitment

Universal guidance and wisdom on celebrating love and partnership, inspired by humanist thought

The story of philosophy

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...

Spinoza's Religion - A New Reading of the Ethics

"Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither...

Night Vision - Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods

"The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side perhaps it is that we have come to see t...

Parfit - A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

"From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried t...

Ethical Decision-Making

Ethical decision-making challenges us every day - be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional...

How to Pool Risks Across Generations - The Case for Collective Pensions

How to Pool Risks across Generations makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Throug...

Double Vision - Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher a...

Mathematics, Models, and Modality - Selected Philosophical Essays

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

Evil in Modern Thought - An Alternative History of Philosophy

Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. I...

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...

Animal Liberation Now

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

True to the Earth - Pagan Political Theology

Originally released in 2018, True to the Earth is the first English work to offer a robust explanation of the power of pagan cosmologies ...

Ethics

Thinking with Balibar - A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent ...

The Ironic Hume

Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind im...

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...

Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. I...

On the Law of Nature - A Demonstrative Method

On the Law of Nature is at once a traditional and eclectic treatise of moral philosophy by one of the sixteenth century's most widely rea...

Rahel Varnhagen - Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin / The Life of a Jewish Woman

Die Biographie Rahel Varnhagens, begonnen um 1930 in Berlin, fertiggestellt 1938 im Pariser Exil, veröffentlicht erst zwanzig Jahre späte...

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...

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...

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...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Centenary Edition

Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the log...

Nicomachean Ethics

A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker...

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...

Everything and Nothing

Is it possible for reality as a whole to be part of itself? Can the world appear within itself without thereby undermining the consistenc...

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 ...

Postcontinental Realism - Ontology and Epistemology for the Twenty-First Century

The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency

It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The Joy of Consent - A Philosophy of Good Sex

In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, whi...

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...

Ten Ways to Weave the World - Matter, Mind, and God, Volume 1

The idea of an ideological war between science and religion, Thompson argues, is founded on a mistake. But this does not mean that there ...

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,...

Ten Ways to Weave the World - Matter, Mind, and God, Volume 2

In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual ""Worlds"" that preceded the dualist v. materialist divide an...

The Meaning of the War

Henry Bergson was a major French philosopher in the early 1900's. This lecture was delivered in 1914 and addresses the topic of war and i...

Doc-Humanity

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that wa...

Schopenhauer in 60 Minutes

Schopenhauer is renowned as the greatest, most brilliant pessimist among philosophers. He was the first to discover that our lives, and w...

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...

Nihilism - A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity

Most people see the world in binary categories. They believe that there is either an inherent moral good that we must all obey, or there ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rethinking Time

Questions about the temporality and historicity of knowledge have gained new urgency in the human sciences in recent decades. New modes o...

Scholastic Metaphysics - A Contemporary Introduction

Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modal...

The Philosophy Of Disenchantment

"Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, "The Anatomy of Negation," which has been honored by international dislike....

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...

Human All-Too-Human - Part I, Volume Six

Nietzsche's essay, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, appeared in 1876, and his next publication was his present work, which was issued in 1878....

The Entanglement - How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

"In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noèe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, and argues that we have radically u...

The Bedside Book of Philosophy - From the Birth of Western Philosophy to the Good Place: 125 Historic Events and Big Ideas to Push the Limits of Your Knowledge Volume 1

Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you've always been interested in. W...

Spheres of Insurrection - Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitali...