Philosophy
How animals conceive of death and dying鈥攁nd what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality
Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life鈥攁nd how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously
Why 鈥渉opeful pessimism鈥� is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment
How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it鈥檚 an essential part of being human
Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the world
A philosopher鈥檚 personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language
The 鈥減hilosopher of truth鈥� (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value鈥攁nd how it can be strengthened
What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic...
How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon鈥攁nd why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves
How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre鈥攁nd why that鈥檚 a good thing
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
Why life鈥檚 shortness鈥攎ore than anything else鈥攊s what makes it meaningful
A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries鈥攁nd made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine鈥檚 religious, ethical, and political thought
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion鈥攁nd why giving it up can free us from suffering
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming
In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher鈥檚 Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world
A concise introduction to logic that teaches you not only how reasoning works, but why it works
An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectuals
A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo
A bold new interpretation of Augustine鈥檚 virtue of hope and its place in political life
A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him鈥攁nd why he matters