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Skin in the Game - Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and...

The Conspiracy against the Human Race - A Contrivance of Horror

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing ...

Metahistory - The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White¿s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historic...

Reasons and Persons

Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal id...

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...

After Virtue

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

Ethics in the Real World - 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

A book of brief essays from the influential philosopher, in which he applies his controversial ways of thinking to a range of current iss...

The Most Good You Can Do - How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

A short guide to effective altruism, an increasingly influential movement in the philanthropic world.

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 ...

Plato at the Googleplex - Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the 21st century Google headquarters? An exploration of the role of ancient philosophy i...

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight - Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Inst...

The Politics of Aesthetics

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is oft...

Logic: A Very Short Introduction

Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the ...

Sex and the Failed Absolute

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj ?i?ek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialect...

Traditionalism - The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order

The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, p...

Integralism - A Manual of Political Philosophy

Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in C...

The Joy of Abstraction - An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

This popular undergraduate quantum mechanics textbook is now available in a more affordable printing from Cambridge University Press. Sui...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearnes...

Philosophy of Mathematics

"This is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, with clear and careful coverage of both traditional topics and cutti...

On What Matters 03 - Volume Three

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential...

What Kind of Creatures Are We?

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitiv...

Ethics in the Real World - 90 Essays on Things That Matter - A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition

Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher Peter Singer is often described as the w...

The Joy of Consent - A Philosophy of Good Sex

In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, whi...

History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms

This book provides a conceptual overview of the evolution of Chinese philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the end of the imperial e...

Evolution of Morals - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Nature of Human Behavior

Carlos Stegmann is a civil engineer whose disposition always led him to have a main interest in the multidisciplinary overview of large a...

Philosophy made in Germany - Arthur Schopenhauer: A "little" introduction

Arthur Schopenhauer Born in Danzig in 1788, died in Frankfurt am Main in 1860, was an outsider among philosophers. He did not belong to a...

dark blue is celebrating all ..... nature colourful

dark blue is celebrating all - nature colourful is a nature book and technical book and memories book and sporty book and celebrating boo...

indiany

Das Buch "indiany" ist ein Naturbuch und ein Sportbuch mit märchenhaften Erinnerungen und ewigen glücklich sein und auch mit NHL Sport un...

Light - Reason and Destination of Freemasonry

The Symbolism of Light plays an important role in Masoniccustoms. Where does this Vocation and the Search for Lightcome from? So what is ...

Philosophy made in Germany - You are God!

Philosophy made in Germany You are God! Is a book from my series "Philosophy for Beginners" and was specially written and designed so tha...

Philosophy made in Germany - The manual of the world

Philosophy made in Germany The manual of the world Is a book from my series "Philosophy for Beginners" and was specially written and desi...

Metaphysics, Religion, and Heresy - In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of François Laruelle (Part 2)

This special issue of Labyrinth is the second part of a diptych dedicated to the eminent French philosopher François Laruelle in honor of...

Nothing Really Happens

With the help of this book, the ego-mind loses its power. When we engage in Nabala, a struggle ends and the silence of being reveals itse...

Words for the Road VIII - 100 short reflections and puns

This WORDS FOR THE ROAD VIII, the eight in a row, I have dedicated to "Does it really matter"? and like the others given the subtitle: 10...

"The book" - A life guide

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

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...

The Mayan Astronaut - The technical interpretation of the Palenque tombstone

The Palenque tombstone from a technical point of view. Without religious rites and without a tree of of life, but a flying cart. Made wit...

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...

Confucian Role Ethics - A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?

The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic ...

Transparency, Society and Subjectivity - Critical Perspectives

This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual cla...

Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes t...

The Faces of Contemporary Phenomenology: the Quest for Relevance - Dedicated to the memory of Jan Patocka and Roman Ingarden

Contemporary phenomenology addresses us and calls for a response. In a spirit of an existential responsibility, we recognize that the att...

Gleichzeitige Nähe und Ferne - Jean-Paul Sartre und Emmanuel Levinas im Dialog - Proximité et distance en même temps - Jean-Paul Sartre et Emmanuel Levinas en dialogue

Zwischen Jean-Paul Sartre und Emmanuel Levinas enthüllt sich ein Geflecht aus Nähe und Ferne, wie es selten zwei Denkern eigen ist. Beide...

Lógos and Máth¿ma 2 - Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

The volume consists of thirteen papers devoted to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. They can be divided into t...

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...

The Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics - A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Interpretations of Bohmian Ontology

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the metaphysics of Bohmian mechanics. Bohmian mechanics is a quantum theory t...

Nietzsche¿s Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology - Second Edition

Nietzsche¿s doctrine of the "eternal recurrence of the same"¿the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequen...

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 ...

What We Owe the Future

"One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every h...

Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of Hegel.

Zur Erinnerung an den 250. Geburtstag von Hegel versammelt dieser Band mit dem ungewöhnlichen Titel »Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of He...

The Nso¿ Concept of Time - An African Cosmological Perspective

The Nsö Concept of Time explores cosmology among the Nsö people of north-western Cameroon. It examines the concept of time within the Nsö...

Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School - Critical Retrieval

The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart...

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...

Materialist Phenomenology - A Philosophy of Perception

Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manu...

Essay on Man - An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

First published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

The Little Book of Humanist Weddings - Enduring inspiration for celebrating love and commitment

Universal guidance and wisdom on celebrating love and partnership, inspired by humanist thought

The story of philosophy

Mirroring Brains - How we understand others from the inside

Mirroring Brains provides a new interpretation of the property and function of mirror neurons, allowing readers an insight into a fundame...

Spinoza's Religion - A New Reading of the Ethics

"Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither...

Night Vision - Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods

"The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side perhaps it is that we have come to see t...