Philosophy
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Rob Tempio
Publisher, Philosophy, Political Theory, & the Ancient World -
Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Humanities, Europe
The philosopher Wilfrid Sellars characterized the aim of philosophy as the effort 鈥渢o understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.鈥� Animated by a similar purpose, the philosophy list publishes widely across the field topically and historically, in order to provide the broadest possible understanding of the world and how to live wisely within it.
With strengths in the history of philosophy and moral and political philosophy, we publish books that reach into adjacent fields and we seek to engage general readers in search of the wisdom philosophy has to offer.
New & Noteworthy
Featured Audiobooks
Series
Ideas
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On Bullshit in Politics
We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Michael Patrick Lynch is on bullshit in politics, and how we might think about ways to combat it.
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On Harry Frankfurt
Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast聽seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out 鈥榖ullshit鈥� 鈥� a misrepresentation聽of truth 鈥� in all its forms.
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Elephant graveyards
In February 2024, a study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa reported on an intriguing finding: five corpses of Asian elephant calves had been found buried within irrigation drains of various tea plantations in northern Bengal, India.
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What to Expect When You鈥檙e Dead
Robert Garland explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions鈥擬esopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic.
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Books for advancing the humanities and affirming our shared humanity
According to the recent World Humanities Report, the humanities are threatened for the very reasons they are powerful. Literature, the arts, philosophy, aesthetics, history: these disciplines鈥攐nce considered vital to understanding what it means to be human鈥攔emain crucial in providing frameworks for understanding human experience, fostering ethical reasoning, countering authoritarianism, and addressing societal problems.
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Edited by Robert B. Talisse and Scott F. Aikin
