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A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will
A compact textbook introduction to the free will debate by one of its leading libertarian participants, written for students and general readers. Kane begins with the problem itself:…
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Private Government
A short book based on Anderson's Tanner Lectures of 2015, with four commentaries and her reply. Anderson argues that most workers live under 'private government': employers hold wide,…
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Against Democracy
A provocative argument that democracy has no intrinsic value and should be judged by its results, and that some form of epistocracy, rule by the knowledgeable, might do…
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Elite Capture
A short book that grew out of essays on identity politics and standpoint epistemology. Táíwò takes the term 'elite capture' from the study of development, where it describes…
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Games: Agency as Art
A work of philosophical aesthetics arguing that games are a distinctive art form whose medium is agency itself. A designer sets goals, abilities and obstacles, and so specifies…
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Wittgenstein’s Poker
A work of popular history built around a single evening: the meeting of the Moral Sciences Club in Cambridge on 25 October 1946, at which Karl Popper read…
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How to Be a Stoic
A practical introduction to Stoicism written by a philosopher of science who took it up as a way of life. Pigliucci structures the book as an imagined conversation…
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The Life You Can Save
A practical book arguing that people in affluent countries act wrongly if they do not give to help end extreme poverty. It begins with the drowning child: if…
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A History of Philosophy, Volume I: Greece and Rome
The first volume of the multi-volume history of Western philosophy by Frederick Copleston, an English Jesuit who taught at Heythrop College, originally written with students for the priesthood…
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The Art of Loving
A short book arguing that love is not a pleasant feeling one falls into by luck but an art that has to be learned, like painting or medicine,…
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