The notion of ’the human’ is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in......more
In Evolved Emotions, Glenn Weisfeld analyzes a comprehensive list of universal emotions, detailing their elicitors, affe......more
The most recent addition to the Fundamentals of Philosophy series, John Martin Fischer’s Death, Immortality, and Meaning......more
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It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives. As a phenomenon, play poses important questions of real......more
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Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Conf......more
Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will......more
What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn’t ha......more
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What is love’s real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all? In addres......more
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Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question ’What is humou......more
Though Kant never used the word ’emotion’ in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. ......more
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or......more
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This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the ......more
Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predicti......more
What bearing do our histories--our influences, what we have done and what has happened to us--have on our responsibility......more
Following the editors’ introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Milton’s own......more
J.L. Chretien is a French public intellectual, philosopher and poet, widely published and revered in his home country an......more
J.L. Chretien is a French public intellectual, philosopher and poet, widely published and revered in his home country an......more
In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us c......more
This book presents 12 original essays on historical and contemporary philosophical discussions of judgment. The central ......more
In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is......more
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"Human, All-Too-Human (Parts I and II)" is a collection of philosophical aphorisms by famed philosopher Friedrich Nietzs......more
This book addresses the ’perennial’ question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of ......more
What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs? If we dig down far enough do we find that our moral values have no gro......more
The methodology of "Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement" is mainly philosophical. It is intended to complement s......more
Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. Fr......more
Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasi......more
Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing wi......more
Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology draws attention to a largely overlooked piece of Hegel’s philosophy: his substantial an......more
This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceiv......more
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This title was first published in 2002: At the end of the 20th century, the emotions ceased to be a neglected topic for ......more
"A fierce and lively book. . . .This is one of those rare books that could make people think about their intimate lives ......more
Foreword- Richard GundermanThe significance of Walker Percy from the perspective of a practising medical clinician and p......more
There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book......more
Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea th......more
While human beings might be rational animals, they are emotional animals as well. Emotions play a central role in all ar......more
Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neur......more
This is a study about man who is a part of the world of physical events, including actions. As a bunch of actions which ......more
In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-bod......more
An important milestone of 20th Century philosophy was the rise of personalism. After the crimes and atrocities against m......more
This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. ......more
The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are ......more
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What are emotions? How do they arise? How do they relate to other mental and bodily states? And what is their specific s......more
The Human Person presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving in......more
Suffering in Ancient Worldview investigates representative Christian, Roman Stoic and Jewish perspectives on the nature,......more
Spirituality without God is the first global survey of "godless" spirituality. Long before "spiritual but not religious"......more
Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l’homme......more
Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King Jr., bringing......more
A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writ......more
The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporar......more
Combining Analytic and Continental approaches, this book provides a detailed analysis of mental ambivalence and its stru......more
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissan......more
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This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-st......more
This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major......more
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This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges,......more
This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, i......more
Leading phenomenologist Tony Steinbock intervenes in contemporary discussion around the concept of the gift, providing a......more
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Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there......more
Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there......more
This book tells about the "History of Zen" in China and Japan. It has altogether 16 chapters. The first eight chapters a......more
This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It expl......more
Our human capacity for planning agency plays central roles in the cross-temporal organization of our agency, in our acti......more
Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for......more
The early modern period is arguably the most pivotal of all in the study of the mind, teeming with a variety of concepti......more
Characterized by many historically significant events, such as the invention of the printing press, the discovery of the......more
Between the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 and Husserl’s Ideas in 1913, the nineteenth century wa......more
While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their......more
Spanning 1200 years of intellectual history - from the 6th century BCE emergence of philosophical enquiry in the Greek c......more