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Bioethics - An Opinionated Introduction

The textbook offers readers a clear and engaging entry point into the central questions of bioethics. It demonstrates how ethical princip...

Only Logic Can Save Us From Powerful-and-Autonomous AI & Robots - Making Morally X Machines

This book provides the logic-based path by which humanity can neutralize the existential threat posed by machines that are at once powerf...

Wesley Cragg: A Canadian Business Ethics Pioneer - A Collection of His Best Works

This business ethics collection is composed of a variety of original and unique journal articles published by the very first chair of bus...

African Philosophy and the Politics of Food Systems

This open access edited volume argues that food systems need to be questioned on ethical and epistemic grounds, and firmly posits African...

The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural Sciences - Historical and Epistemological Perspectives

This book provides a novel approach to a key topic in the history and philosophy of science, the role and status of prediction in the nat...

Towards Energy System Resilience - Theory, Governance and Practice

This open access book addresses theoretical objectives and operational issues for the conceptualisation and development of a resilience m...

The Right to Be Known - Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories

Stories shape not only how we understand the world-but also how we live in it. The way a narrative sketches the contours of a person's ch...

Setting Fire to Reason - The Ethics of Free Speech

The responsibilities of speakers and platforms in a world where content can go viral The debate over free speech is often marked by two e...

Abducing Abduction - Novel Perspectives on Peircean Abduction and Their Consequences For Contemporary Debates

This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Peirce’s theory of abduction, tracing its evolution across five ...

Heart of Science - A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry

"A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims. In Heart of Science...

Handbook to Tocqueville - Life - Work - Reception

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of Tocqueville's life, work and impact based on the current state of historical, philosophi...

Walter Carnielli on Reasoning, Paraconsistency, and Probability

This book is a collection of essays and research articles honoring Walter Carnielli and his work. It brings together contributions from r...

Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century - Revisiting G.A. Cohen

Since his passing in 2009, Cohen has been subject to sustained scrutiny and praise as his influence continues to grow. This companion vol...

Philosophy A Complete Course - Master the Essentials in Simple Steps

The ultimate one-stop guide to the subject, this book takes you on a fascinating journey through the questions that have puzzled humanity...

Time and Temporality in Perspective

Time and Temporality in Perspective explores central topics in the contemporary analytic metaphysics of time such as the passage of time,...

Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation - A Dignity-Respecting Model of Targeted Restrictions of Liberty for Liberal States

Detention is among the most controversial and complex powers a state can exercise over an individual, raising the fundamental question: h...

Misinformation: The Basics

This book introduces readers to the topic of misinformation. In recent years, many people have become worried about fake news, misinforma...

American Psychology and the Great War - Scientific Expertise in the Public Arena

American Psychology and the Great War provides the first comprehensive examination of the research of psychologists during the Great War ...

An Introduction to Embodied Mind - Thinking Outside the Head

An Introduction to Embodied Mind: Thinking Outside the Head offers readers a valuable gateway to understanding one of the most exciting i...

The Philosophical Foundations of Bayesianism - An Opinionated Introduction

This book introduces students and researchers to the philosophical issues at play in the growing field of Bayesian epistemology. It focus...

The Future of Hermeneutics - Contributions to the International Hermeneutics Symposium

This volume is comprised of contributions from internationally respected scholars dedicated to the theme of "The Future of Hermeneutics."...

Transformative Social Psychology - Towards Social Change and Justice

The book adopts a critical interdisciplinary perspective, examining the crisis and prospects of the social psychological domain. It ventu...

Genetically Edited Children and the Risks to Equality - Examining Heritable Genome Editing in the Light of Social Justice

Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorde...

Hearing Time - A Philosophical Exercise

This book explores temporal orders, how reality is organised in time, and the coordination of events and experiences. Recognising that ev...

Memes and Meaning - Presence and Transcendence in Literature

Drawing from literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural critique, this short and accessible book challenges modern conceptions of mea...

The Moral Problems of Competition

Competition is a key element in the institutional design in Western liberal democracies. This book offers a conceptual and normative anal...

Becoming Stendhal - The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an auth...

Why I Am So Wise - Illustrated Pocket Edition with Ribbon Marker

An elegant collector's edition of Nietzsche's classic autobiographical work, presented in a handsome pocket hardback edition with two-col...

Killing and Christian Ethics

Everyone recognizes that it is, in general, wrong to intentionally kill a human being. But are there exceptions to that rule? In Killing ...

Since You're Mortal . . . - Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays

"The truly happy man ought to stay at home." "Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love." "Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy br...

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...

Humanism for Life - Seven humanist rules for life

A practical guide to humanism featuring seven simple steps to lead a happier life. In all the chaos of modern life it can be hard to find...

Art Beyond the Edge - Creativity and Conflict in a World on Fire

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a ...

Literature in the Light of Philosophy - The Interpretive Imagination

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the philosophy of language, e...

Sophismata - Histoire d'une pratique philosophique / History of a way of doing philosophy

The manner in which philosophy was practised in the Middle Ages was highly variagated. Until now, historiography has largely focused on t...

Myth, Mythography, and Historiography - Studies in Herodotus, His Contemporaries, and Others

This volume collects Robert L. Fowler's major papers on Greek myth, mythography, and historiography published since 1996, the date of the...

Original Sin - The Genetics of Wrongdoing, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness

Allegories of Breathing - Intersections of Language and Life in Literature

The aim of this volume is to present a quite recent focus on the ways biological materiality of bodily existence comes into closest conta...

Distant Freedom - Essay on Chekhov

Chekhov's short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary to the image of a ...

Distant Freedom - Essay on Chekhov

Chekhov's short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary to the image of a ...

Knowing the Normative World - On the Epistemologies of Ethics and Aesthetics

Ubuntu - Conversations with Francoise Blum

Ubuntu, a Bantu word that became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is host to many meanings: ...

Making Common Sense - On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents ar...

Think Tank Science and Engineering: An Introduction

This book introduces think tank science and engineering as an emerging academic discipline, marking the evolution of Chinese think tanks ...

The Origins of Totalitarianism / Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft

Hannah Arendts Totalitarismustheorie ist einer der wichtigsten Beiträge zur politischen Theorie und Historiografie. Ein Buch von verstöre...

Deleuze's Philosophy of Time and Logic - Kant, Bergson, and the Labyrinth of the Continuum

In this compelling study Charles John Paetsch explores the overlooked relationship between time and logic in Gilles Deleuze's philosophy....

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Volume 7

Thus Spoke Zarathustra stands alone among Nietzsche's published works as a poetic and narrative rendering of his most sophisticated ideas...

Xenoaesthetics - A Posthumanist Approach to Architectural Encounter

Examining our relationships with architecture beyond human-centric perspectives, Xenoaesthetics challenges conventional views of design a...

Remarks on Mathematics and Logic - Volume IV, 1941-1943 Volume 4

The first of five planned volumes, this book collects Wittgenstein's unabridged writings on mathematics and logic composed between 1941 a...

Democracy and Digital Communication - The Effects of Social Media Platforms on Deliberative Systems

How do social media platforms influence democracy? Karoline Helbig explores how the logics and architectures of these platforms structure...

The Organization of the Mind - Lessons from Kant and Freud

As a prominent figure of the 18th century Enlightenment, Kant advocated faith in reason and in the possibility of human progress through ...

Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy - Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good

Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition. Over the course of her lifetime she published nearly thirty novels, num...

Many Ways to Think about Harvest - Communicating Across Disciplines

Effective and creative solutions to complex global problems often need teams with diverse knowledge and experience. Yet, rising polarisat...

Love Thy Stranger - How Jesus Transformed Our Moral Conscience

When you hear of a devastating earthquake thousands of miles away, you might reach into your pockets to make a donation. That's the fault...

Vital Lives - Social Responsibility and the Battle Against Chronic Disease

Chronic diseases are a major menace to the goal of living healthier, longer, and more vital lives. In the 20th century a sustained, and c...

Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century - A Cultural History of Female Beauty

Uncovering how and why eighteenth-century definitions of beauty established cultural beliefs that continue to persist, Katherine Aske exp...

Locke's Essay - Expanded and Explained

Writings on Art and Politics

To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories - it's art, or it...

The Imperative of Genius

Human beings produce many things, and the most remarkable of these we call works of genius. The symphonies of Beethoven, the of paintings...

Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy

Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy squarely confronts the vexing and urgent ethical challenges related to the economic and dev...