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Philosophy
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals
A Kantian argument that we have direct moral obligations to other animals, which Kant himself denied. Korsgaard argues that animals are ends in themselves, though not in Kant's…
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Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Developed from Plantinga's Gifford Lectures of 2005, this book argues that the familiar picture of science and religion at war is mistaken. His thesis is that there is…
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Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy
A book addressed to Western philosophers, arguing that Buddhist philosophy is a resource for their own questions and not merely an object of historical study. Garfield begins with…
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The Existence of God
The central volume of Swinburne's trilogy on the philosophy of theism, which argues by the standards of scientific reasoning that God's existence is more probable than not. Using…
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Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
A short polemic arguing that philosophy in the English-speaking world should stop treating itself as an exclusively European tradition. It grew out of a 2016 article in The…
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The Miracle of Theism
A careful, even-handed survey of the main arguments for and against the existence of God, published in 1982, shortly after Mackie's death. Its title comes from Hume, who…
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What Computers Can’t Do
The best-known philosophical critique of early artificial intelligence, which grew out of Dreyfus's 1965 RAND paper 'Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence'. Dreyfus surveys early AI research, whose first successes…
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An Interpretation of Religion
The fullest statement of Hick's pluralist theory of religion, developed from his Gifford Lectures of 1986–87. Hick argues that the great world religions are different, culturally conditioned human…
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Freedom Evolves
Dennett's main book on free will, arguing that human freedom is real, compatible with determinism, and a product of biological and cultural evolution. He first argues that determinism…
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The Tyranny of Merit
A critique of meritocracy, written after Brexit and Donald Trump's 2016 election and opening with the 2019 American college admissions scandal. Sandel argues that the ideal of a…
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