Kind of book
Philosophy
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Why I Am Not a Christian
A collection of Russell's essays on religion, edited by Paul Edwards and published in 1957, named after a lecture Russell gave to the National Secular Society in London…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A novel set in Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring of 1968 through the Soviet invasion and its aftermath, in which Kundera regularly interrupts the story with his own…
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Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
A short introduction to ethics that begins by taking seriously the reasons people doubt that ethics can be more than opinion. Part One examines seven threats: the death…
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
A long book for general readers that uses virtual reality to work through the central problems of philosophy, starting from Descartes's question of how we know the external…
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
A light introduction to philosophy that explains ideas through jokes, subtitled Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes. Cathcart and Klein, who both studied philosophy before going on to other careers,…
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How the World Thinks
A survey of philosophy across the world's major traditions, organised by theme rather than by place or period, subtitled A Global History of Philosophy. Baggini, trained in Western…
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
A systematic study of what might happen if machines come to exceed human beings in general intelligence. It opens with a fable of sparrows who decide to raise…
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A Short History of Modern Philosophy
A compact history of Western philosophy from Descartes to Wittgenstein, first published in 1981 and substantially rewritten for its 1995 edition. Scruton's approach is analytical rather than biographical:…
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
A book of short entries on how more than 190 philosophers died, and what their deaths and their attitudes to death reveal about their thought. Critchley starts from…
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
A book on existential risk: events that would destroy humanity's long-term potential, through extinction, an unrecoverable collapse of civilisation or a permanent dystopia. Ord argues that since the…
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