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Becoming Collingwood - Central Themes

This book explores Collingwood's philosophical beliefs on art, taste, history, and others central ideas of his time.

Spinoza and Contemporary Biology - Lectures on the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitivism

A neo-Spinozian conception of life and the mind Published in France in 2018, Henri Atlan's book Cours de philosophie biologique et cognit...

The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student an...

The Expressive Self - The First Person in Speech and Thought

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of ...

Amalia Holst

Amalia Holst's trailblazing book On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education (1802) dropped a bomb on the German speaking s...

Meinongianism

Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this ...

Rationality and Time Bias

We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than la...

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering nonviolence as a sacrosa...

Why It's OK to Be Amoral

This book argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded mora...

Unthinking Epistemicide

This book argues that the cause of social and political inequalities is above all the dominance of non-Western worldviews. Developing a c...

Disagreement

This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types o...

Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

Monadological Intimacy - The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze

This book presents a speculative analysis of G.W. Leibniz's theory of relations through the lens of his theory of folds. Jeff Lambert arg...

Aristotle's Induction and the Inference of First Principles

David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we ac...

Skepticism and the New World - The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity

Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity shows that the "discovery" of the New World had...

Deep Perception - The Direct Awareness of Individual Being and the Practice of Being Who We Are

Deep Perception draws on analytic, continental, and Eastern philosophy to argue that direct perceptions of the being or essential charact...

Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nat...

Philosophical Health - A Practical Introduction

"Are you philosophically healthy? Do your actions reflect your thoughts, do your words mirror your values, or do you live in contradictio...

Studies of Life Positioning - A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiogr...

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...

Kairós - In Defence of 'Due Time'

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to to...

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...

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...

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...

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy - From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key ...

Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology - MacIntyre on Practical Reason and Virtue

How does ideology function and, more importantly, can philosophy help us resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these ...

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 ...

Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking - Romanticism and the Living Present

Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poeti...

Kant on Self-Control

This Element considers Kant's conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral philosophy. It offers a detailed interpretati...

Intentionality Deconstructed - An Anti-Realist Theory

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional con...

Resistance Money - A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin

The book develops a comprehensive and measured case that bitcoin is a net benefit to the world, despite its imperfections. Resistance Mon...

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

The age of reason

An introduction to Zen buddhism

Philosophy in the twentieth century I-IV.

Philosophy of the ancients

Nietzsche

The central questions of philosophy

The age of reason (17th century philosophers)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The english philosophers from Bacon to Hill