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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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

AI Ethics

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

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 ...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

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 ...

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 ...

Norms and Necessity

Philosophical theories often hinge on claims about what is necessary or possible. But what are possibilities and necessities, and how cou...

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.

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...

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...

Ordinary Magic: Everyday Life as Spiritual Path - Everyday Life as a Spiritual Path

Spiritual practice and meditation are often thought of as being the province of priests, monks, and nuns-those few individuals who have r...

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

The Meritocratic Promise of Classical Liberalism - Restoring Equality of Opportunity in the Age of Market Triumphalism

In an era of Market Triumphalism, this book follows the quest to address a myriad of prominent socio-economic pathologies in Western demo...

Intuition of the Instant

Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the Instant - Bachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral impli...

A Treatise of Formal Logic: Its Evolution and Main Branches; 1

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Th...

Natural Philosophy

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

Heidegger in China and Japan

The modern developments of Chinese and Japanese philosophical traditions have engaged in depth with Heidegger's philosophy, but what is t...

Nature, the Artful Modeler - Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better

Renowned philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright presents an original view on scientific realism.

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].

The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity; Forces That Bring Riches to You

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia

Introduction to The New Existentialism

Plato in 90 Minutes

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

Social Robotics and the Good Life - The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds With Robots

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years,...

A Gradual Awakening

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

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...