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Visions of Order - The Cultural Crisis of Our Time

An essential work from scholar and rhetorician Richard Weaver, a leading figure in the rise of the modern conservative intellectual movem...

The Welfare of Future Children - Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening

This practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening bas...

Methods and Skills for Philosophy - An Advanced Guide

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to philosophical methods. It is a must-read for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate studen...

Logic and Information

This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret i...

The Ethic of the Upward Gaze - Essays Inspired by Immanuel Kant and Nicolai Hartmann

"Kant and Hartmann share a belief that is less common than it once was: that the aim of morality is to guide us toward becoming the best ...

Gateway to the Epicureans - Epicurus, Lecretius, and Their Modern Heirs

The Greek Philosopher behind Nearly Every Bad Idea

Nihilism and Technology

Investigating how human values mediate the design and use of new technologies, the updated edition of Nolen Gertz's Nihilism and Technolo...

40 Questions about Suffering and Evil

Multifaceted answers to the multifaceted challenges of suffering and evil. Both inside and outside the Christian faith, many difficult re...

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 to...

Ethics for the Coming Storm - Climate Change and Jewish Thought

In Ethics for the Coming Storm, Laurie Zoloth argues that our debates about environmental issues have largely been driven by the language...

How to Research Like a Dog - Kafka's New Science

"This book uses Kafka's 1922 short story 'Investigations of a Dog' to address a series of questions: What is research? How is knowledge p...

Global Sweatshops - A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance

Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatsho...

Thinking in Images - Imagistic Cognition and Non-Propositional Content

What does it mean to think with images? There is a well-established tradition of studying thought processes through the nature of languag...

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action

What is self-control? Does a person need to be conscious to act? Are delusions always irrational? Questions such as these are fundamental...

The Examined Run - Why Good People Make Better Runners

Philosopher and prominent ultra-marathoner Sabrina Little here offers a novel view of what it means to run well, and how cultivating key ...

The Roots of Normativity

Joseph Raz addresses one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. His value-based accoun...

The Bounds of Possibility - Puzzles of Modal Variation

The Bounds of Possibility focuses on the question of how much variation in the properties of an individual object there can be, and if it...

At the Vanishing Point in History - Critical Perspectives on the Russian-Ukraine War

Putin's war has meant the return of the Russian intelligentsia-a concept that was all but dead in the first decade of the 2000s. At the V...

Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History - A Cross-Cultural Approach

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of in...

Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics - A New Understanding of the Moral Good

A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to f...

A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of...

Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks...

The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge - Why Philosophers Are Not Entitled to Their Beliefs

Philosophy begins and ends in disagreement. Philosophers disagree among themselves in innumerable ways, and this pervasive and permanent ...

René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1 - Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis

This edited volume situates Girard in relation to the Western philosophical tradition. Each chapter engages the French anthropologist in ...

Posthumanism in Practice

Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consc...

African Ethics - A Guide to Key Ideas

This is the first comprehensive exploration of African ethics covering everything from normative ethics and applied ethics, to meta-ethic...

God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity

When it comes to what many of us think of as the deepest questions of existence, the answers can seem difficult to make out. This difficu...

The Metaphysics of Existence and Nonexistence - Actualism, Meinongianism, and Predication

Are there nonexistent objects? Can we make sense of objects having properties without thinking that there are nonexistent objects? Is exi...

Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge - Toward a Non-Reductive Model

This book centers on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: first, the dissatisfaction with the project of analyzing knowl...

Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic - Between Tradition and Innovation, 1820s-1930s

Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle's ...

Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought - Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

Is populism the unsurpassable horizon of our own time or is it a temptation that should at all costs be resisted? Who, and to what end, d...

Concise Guide to Critical Thinking

Lewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking, third Edition, offers a clear and compact introduction to critical thinking and argume...

Time, Myth and Matter

Time, Myth and Matter by LD Deutsch is a collection of five essays, including revised and expanded versions of her highly esteemed zines ...

Welt und Wahrheit - World and Truth - In memoriam Arno Baruzzi

The Witcher and Philosophy

"Geralt is a witcher, and witchers are mutants. They are inhuman monsters, so why would anyone want to become one? Andrzej Sapkowski take...

Who Knows - Knowledge According to Spiritual Philosophy

How do we know anything? This question - one of the oldest and biggest in philosophy - has led many a philosopher into a pit of despair. ...

Metaphysics of Causation

This Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of natur...

Aristotle on Human Nature - The Animal with Logos

Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing tha...

Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Gratitude - Analytic, Continental, and Religious

Existential gratitude-gratitude for one's very existence or life as a whole-is pervasive across the most influential human, cultural and ...

A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time, Second Edition

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and...