Philosophy

Professor & best-selling author McCarty introduces 10 major topics, gives a background of philosophical thought on each…

How can Kant comfort you when you get ditched via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger…

Good Thinking is a grand tour of irrational thinking from across the world and throughout history, including the…

The universe if alive with dynamic energy, and this book teaches how to incorporate that energy into one's spiritual…

If someone spent their entire life chained inside cave, only seeing images cast by shadows on the cave wall, how might…

This collection of essays is great for anyone looking to dive into the whys and whats of witchcraft in the modern age.…

The trolley problem is a 1967 thought experiment by British philosopher Philippa Foot, who asked us to contemplate the…

A rigorous, but fun-to-read philosophical primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. Professor…

In this anthology of essays and writings from activist educators from around the world, learn how teachers in different…

This guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) traces the development and…

  •  Why are you kind at all?   •  Why aren't you kinder? This Book Will Make You Kinder is an examination of…

An engaging, non-boring lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human…

Can we ever experience anything objectively? Is it better to love than be loved? Are destiny and fate real things? What…

In this entertainingly meaningless book, author Wendy Syfret sets out to argue the positive case for nihilism. All too…

In this reflection of history and the Communist dream, bicyclist Tim Moore describes his perhaps overly ambitious plan…

If you believe that a language can contain rather than merely relate Truths, then Conscious Confidence will be a…

There is joy to be found in befuddlement. Confusion leads to wonder, which leads to curiosity and discovery! In…

When Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1953, he refused to patent it, forgoing profit so that more lives could…

This timely and incisive book revists Francis Fukuyama's proposition that liberal democracy is necessarily the final…

From ancient Greece to modern day philosophy departments, the discipline of philosophy has consistently posed questions…

Improve your life with this philosophical reimagining of Stoicism for the contemporary age. Stoic philosophy is having a…

Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and rascally boy, he enjoyed barking at squirrels and sniffing at trees.…

Many thinkers who attempt to disrupt the status quo are met with ignorance, hostility and persecution. Return of the…

The Undercover Economist provides readers with a fresh look at principles that structure our contemporary economy.…

This book is a testament on what it means not to suck, on not being an asshole or a killjoy. In short, it's on being…

Does free will exist? What is free will, and what does jazz have to do with it? Free Will Explained uses science and…

To anyone studying philosophy, this book is a must. To anyone just wanting to learn more about philosophers and their…

Redefine the reality of the academic language of philosophers. Philosophy scholar and expert on Cartesian philosophy,…

An iconoclastic feminist philosopher takes up yoga and produces a series of interconnected ideas, captured here, about…

There are a lot of questions and assumptions that come mind with hip-hop. Is it too violent? Is it just for the Black…