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The Meaning of Suffering - An Interpretation of Human Existence from the Viewpoint of Time

Suffering is a fact of human existence. In his interdisciplinary investigation of the causes, types, value, and outcome of human sufferin...

Capital and Capitalism - Old Myths, New Futures

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not jus...

Philosophy as a Way of Life - Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays b...

Preludes to Pragmatism - Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism

INOCHI - The Book of Life | Das Buch des Lebens (English | Deutsch)

Das Kototama-Prinzip wurde vor vielen Zeitaltern von unseren menschlichen Ahnen perfektioniert. Es ist das Prinzip des menschlichen Leben...

Absence - On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the oth...

Scholastic Metaphysics - A Contemporary Introduction

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

Manifestly Haraway

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

My Big TOE - Inner Workings H - Book 3 of a Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics

Book 3 of the MY Big TOE trilogy. My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language contemporary culture, unifies science and ph...

Aristotle's Revenge - The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Ar...

On Quality - An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint...

Hegel

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continu...

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul - A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

This title is printed in full color throughout. From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an e...

Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates on the Will, the Intellect, and Practical Knowledge

In Willing and Understanding, prominent scholars elucidate a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the interplay of the will an...

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...

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

In Nietzsche in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Nietzsche's life and ideas, and explains their influence o...

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...

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...

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...

An Introduction to Decision Theory

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 8: Volume 8

The 8th Volume of the Letters of Marsilio Ficino contains letters written in 1488 and 1489, with a preface added in 1490. It also include...

Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, ...

Eroticizing Aesthetics - In the Real with Bataille and Lacan

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics and how this can invoke the erotic process.

Surviving Democracy - Mitigating Climate Change in a Neoliberalized World

Chien-Yi Lu treats climate change as collateral damage of the neoliberal order established to ensure upward power and wealth redistributi...

Moral Theory - An Introduction

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

Metamorphoses

We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis - of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have alm...

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

First published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

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...

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical a...

Assemblage Theory and Method - An Introduction and Guide

What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applicat...

Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma

Develop knowledge with this thought-provoking guide through the 5 Areas of Knowledge and the 5 Optional Themes covered in the IB Diploma ...

The Ethics Toolkit - A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods

A new edition of the bestselling guide which equips readers with the skills necessary for engaging in ethical reflection The Ethics Toolk...

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...

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...

Contemporary Debates in Epistemology

The perfect introduction to contemporary epistemology, completely overhauled for its third edition In Contemporary Debates in Epistemolog...

Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law

Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as jus...

Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science a...

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...

Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs p...

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...

The World and Us

A radical re-envisioning of the human condition

The Substance of Consciousness - A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism

A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defen...

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 ...

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...

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People - How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the wo...

The Atlas of Reality - A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics

The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding pri...

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...

Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself ...

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...

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

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 Racial Contract

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the Europ...

Talk to Me

The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successful...

Theory of the Subject

Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying many of the...

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

English translation and Latin texts of De passionibus entis in communi & principiis eius and De unitate transcententali in communi.

How to Flourish - An Ancient Guide to Living Well

"A selection of key passage from Aristotle's seminal work the Nicomachean Ethics, which sets out what it means to flourish and live life ...

Reconstructionist Confucianism - Rethinking Morality After the West

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers...

Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy - Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points ...

Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender

'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioet...

Does Truth Matter? - Democracy and Public Space

On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn't need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or ...