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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

What We Owe to Each Other

According to T. M. Scanlon's contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be just...

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...

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 ...

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth century. Michael Beaney...

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...

Goodbye

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living

Moving Things

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

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as ...

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 ...

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...

Thinking About Statistics - The Philosophical Foundations

Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy. It does this by delineating the conceptual cores of various s...

Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone

Each chapter includes an introduction, summary and study questions and there is a glossary of technical terms. Designed to be used on the...

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 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...

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...

Philosophy of Mind: The Basics - The Basics

Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the m...

Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan

This book offers readers a pitch side seat to the ethics of fandom. Its accessible six chapters are aimed both at true sports fans whose ...

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...

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

In Consciousness and Fundamental Reality, Philip Goff argues that physicalist views cannot account for the evident reality of conscious e...

The Cunning of Uncertainty

Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scien...

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

Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, int...

Posthuman Studies Reader - Core readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism

The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanis...