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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers

Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? From the metaphysics of Plato to the nihilism of Nietzsche, this engagi...

Gongsheng Across Contexts - A Philosophy of Co-Becoming

This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/ky¿sei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only translate ¿symbiosis¿ i...

We Are Free to Change the World - Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

"In the months after Donald Trump's election, Hannah Arendt's seminal work, The Origins of Totalitarianism crashed onto the Amazon bestse...

O My Friends, There is No Friend - The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive...

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...

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 ...

Humanly Possible - Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thin...

In Love with Spoons - A Spiritual Journey for Art Lovers and Food Enthusiasts

Embark on a culinary and spiritual journey with 'In Love With Spoons,' as it masterfully blends memoir, poetry, and art, transforming the...

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...

Learning to Be Fair - Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

Learning to Be Fair excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, p...

Chapel Perilous - The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. Chapel Perilous: The Life and T...

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...

Fernando Pessoa - Imagination and the Self

In this short book about the philosophy of the poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections with earlier phil...

The Idea of Determinism

The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève's (1902-1968) work published by St. Augustine's Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), wa...

The Afterlife of Race - An Informed Philosophical Search

In The Afterlife of Race, Lionel McPherson demystifies the Western concept of "race" and reframes race ideology in America as a caste dev...

The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch - Comedy Without Relief

The collected essays in this book offer philosophical perspectives on the films of Ernst Lubitsch, the leading figure of comedy in the 20...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 19

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It ...

Philosophy for an Ending World

Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment, which takes the form of a challenging possible future: the world will end in two hundred ...

Expertise - Philosophical Perspectives

This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the e...

The Physical Signature of Computation - A Robust Mapping Account

Anderson and Piccinini offer the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Their robu...

Responsibility and Healthcare

Responsibility is an important idea in many areas of healthcare. This volume brings together leading scholars writing on a range of quest...

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...

How to Think Impossibly - About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

"A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human. From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-d...

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 ...

The Edge of Sentience - Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

Can octopuses feel pain or pleasure? Can we tell if a person unresponsive after severe injury might be suffering? When does a fetus begin...

Consider the Turkey

Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feastA turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and ...

What to Save and Why - Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation

What does a sanctuary for Hawaiian crows have in common with a troop of robots programmed to perform the M¿ori haka, or recreations of Wo...

Mindprints - Thoreau's Material Worlds

"We tend to associate Henry David Thoreau with the renunciation of material possessions, projecting onto him our fantasies of a life live...

Everyday Stoicism

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day life Discover the path to a more contented, fulfilled ...

Self-Portrait in the Studio

A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Por...

The Unrealizable - Towards a Politics of Ontology

A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition. We are so used to ...

Following the Moon

The Fundamentals of Reasons

The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reaso...

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...

Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

The Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy, Third Edition, contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive ...

Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism - Towards a Philosophy of Conflict

The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonis...

Metachemistry

Ruthenberg highlights the unique aspects of chemistry, specifically its metachemical fundamentals, which have been largely overlooked in ...

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering - Best Practices and Insights

Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperativ...

Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting

Studies the impact of science and technology on the painting of Gerhard Richter Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of scie...

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II - Values and Governance

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in ...

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy - Volume 5

The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear ...

The Abstract and the Concrete - Further Essays in Ontology

The Abstract and the Concrete draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-...

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

This book is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness conditio...

The Complex Tapestry of Free Will - A Philosophical Odyssey

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of ...

The Moral Universe

The Moral Universe explores central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to...

Heidegger's Metaphysics - The Overturning of 'Being and Time'

"Heidegger and Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a...

Solidarity with Animals - Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential

This edited collection brings together the leading thinkers in the fields of animal ethics, politics, social philosophy, world religions,...

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia - A Novel Approach to Aesthetics

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aes...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences

The book presents Transparent Intensional Logic in several of its latest realisations in such a way that it makes a case for the system a...

Stones and Lives - The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War

Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to safeguard other goods, in...

Putting Knowledge to Work - New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology

In the 21st century knowledge-centered approaches, which take knowledge as the starting-point for elucidation of other epistemic notions ...

Thinking with Assent - Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief

Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; b...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy

France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Speciall...

The Heart and Its Attitudes

Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans ach...

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...

Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The 'Enneads' Commentary

This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino...

Kōsō-Ryoku: Conceptualizing Capability - For Innovation and Management in the Age of Para-Existence

This book examines conceptualizing capability (k¿s¿-ryoku), the most important ability for thriving in the era of innovation. A new appro...

Letters from a Stoic

My dear Reader, within this book are one hundred and twenty-four letters on the subject of morals written from the philosopher Seneca to ...