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"The book" - A life guide

A guide of many topics for young people: art, feelings, think, belief, health, nutrition, sport, sex, money

5-Minute Bedtime Stories

Twelve fairy tales by Maria Gvardeitseva based on the real stories of her friends For centuries, the breakup has been the prerogative of ...

Abductive Reasoning in Science

This Element gives an opinionated overview of both accounts of abductive reasoning that have been proposed and the problems that have mot...

A Commentary on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth ...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

Act and Omission in Criminal Law - Autonomy, Morality and Applications to Euthanasia

This book offers an innovative perspective on the critical distinction between acts and omissions in criminal law, a distinction that run...

Actor & Avatar - A Scientific and Artistic Catalog

What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in th...

Adventures in Philosophy

First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and ...

Aesthetics of Weather

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of ...

After Virtue

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark wo...

Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life - Beyond Nihilism and Morality

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer ...

Agents of Change - Political Philosophy in Practice

Ben Laurence argues for a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. He shows that the task of political...

A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

An indispensable guide to the major work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.

A Heated Debate - Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science

Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeated...

Alien Landscapes? - Interpreting Disordered Minds

Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles ...

A Little History of Philosophy

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his d...

A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death - The Metaphysics of Desire

This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and tw...

Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1 - The Project of a Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thinking

This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy. Here Habermas sets out the ideas ...

Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short introduction

Michael Beaney introduces analytic philosophy by exploring some of the key ideas of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Ludwig ...

Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

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

An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing

An Ethical View of Human-Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumeria...

A New Approach to Addiction and Choice - Akrasia and the Nature of Free Will

Through a lively discussion of the key scientific and philosophical issues surrounding addiction, this book is valuable for students in p...

Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals. It uncovers a rich stream of innovative...

Animal Liberation Now

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case fo...

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.

An Introduction to Ethics

A clear, comprehensive presentation of the most important theories of ethics in Western philosophy, including extensive coverage of John ...

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

An introduction to Zen buddhism

Anna's AI Anthology - How to live with smart machines?

Herausgegeben von: Dr. Anna Strasser, Berlin. - Mit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT sind so genannte 'große Sprachmodelle' (Large Langua...

A Philosophy of Political Myth

Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth.

Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context - Society, Culture and Language

This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of...

Aristotelian Naturalism - A Research Companion

This book features many of the leading voices championing the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism (AN) in contemporary philoso...

Aristotle - The Complete Works

In "Aristotle: The Complete Works", the timeless relevance of Aristotle's ideas becomes clear. His relentless pursuit of knowledge, his k...

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...

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years. Did he hold that happi...

Art and its Objects

This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

Art and Moral Change - A Reexamination

"This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether art...

Art of Reasoning - An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Students learn logic by practicing it by working through problems, analyzing existing arguments, and constructing their own arguments in ...

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...

A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

An important contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. Ideal for all philosophy students interested in ethic...

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...

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...

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition

The homogeneity of the Epicurean Garden and the unchangeability of the texts of Epicurus has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ...

A Wandering Dance Through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes - Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis. Engaging wi...

Being Philosophical - An Introduction to Philosophy and Its Methods

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical think...

Beyond Marginality - Constructing a Self in the Twilight of Western Culture

Beyond Marginality: Constructing a Self in the Twilight of Western Culture explores the phenomenon of the marginal self using the anthrop...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Hardcover Journal

Settle into a peaceful respite from the busy world with this hardcover ruled journal filled with uplifting quotes and illustrations from ...

Bioethics Across the Globe - Rebirthing Bioethics

This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with t...

BLANK

Famous Hollywood producers asked the pilot to write down his life story to be turned into a movie. What he wrote became the most importan...

Bodies That Matter - On the Discursive Limits of Sex

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material...

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...

Bulgarski glasove v chuzhbina: filosofski akcenti

The aim of the volume "Bulgarian Voices Abroad. Philosophical Accents" is to present the main ideas and achievements of authors of Bulgar...

Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, a...

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

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...

Capitalism and Crises - How to Fix Them

The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance to describe what has gone wrong, what ...

Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model - A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach pre...

Changes in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism

The Hungarian and German authors of this book have examined the processes that took place in 18th century philosophy, aesthetics and othe...

Classical Confucian Political Thought - A New Interpretation

"Combining deep scholarship, theoretical imagination, and lucid prose, El Amine gives us a more complex and yet more accessible Confucius...