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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...

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...

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...

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...

Reflections on the Guillotine

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then th...

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...

Plato in 90 Minutes

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction

Bence Nanay introduces aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. Looking beyond traditional ...

The Self: A Very Short Introduction

This VSI is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questi...

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...

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...

The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings belie...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Divine Beauty - The Invisible Embrace

Fascinating guide to beauty, creativity and the imagination. It follows on from his bestselling "Anam Cara" and "Eternal Echoes".

Sentience - The Invention of Consciousness

Conscious sensations ground our sense of self, but is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Nicholas ...

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.

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...

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...

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. ...

Natural Philosophy

"Natural Law in the Spiritual World" is a book written by Henry Drummond, a Scottish scientist, and evangelist, first published in 1883. ...

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...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Based on Theories of Cha

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 Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner

Two representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers. The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsch...

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...

Inventing the Individual - The Origins of Western Liberalism

This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its u...

The Philosopher and the Wolf - Lessons From the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness

A fascinating title that charts the relationship between the philosopher, Mark Rowlands, and his well-travelled wolf. From the bestsellin...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

Introduction to The New Existentialism

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 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 ...

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...

Bioethics - What Everyone Needs to Know ®

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know RG discusses the most difficult and contro...

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...

Quantum Entanglement

An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality...

AI Ethics

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

Philosophical Dictionary

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

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...

Philosophers on the Russian Aggression in Ukraine

The Russian aggression in Ukraine, culminated in its invasion on 24 February 2022, has left friend nor foe untouched and continues to sho...

The Evolutionary Mind - Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit

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

A Gradual Awakening

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

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].

Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living

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...

Meditations - The Annotated Edition

With prose that is "wonderfully sober and taut" (Wall Street Journal), this definitive translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offer...

Logic: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

A thorough and user-friendly guide to logic, which will take you step by step through both the theoretical and practical elements of this...

The Joy of Abstraction - An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

Journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory with popular science author Eugenia Cheng. Featuring humanizing ex...

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...

Moving Things

Geschichten von bewegten und bewegenden Dingen im Kontext von Flucht und Migration. Was sagen Dinge über menschliche Existenz, über Fluch...

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia

Are You an Illusion?

A salutary analysis of science¿s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our mos...