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The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
An introductory textbook that teaches philosophy by working through questions people already ask. Robert C. Solomon first published it in 1982, and later editions were revised with Kathleen…
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Classical Philosophy (A History of Philosophy without Any Gaps, Volume 1)
The first volume of Adamson's book series based on his podcast, A History of Philosophy without Any Gaps, which aims to cover the whole story of philosophy, including…
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What We Owe the Future
The fullest popular statement of longtermism, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. MacAskill's argument is simple: future people…
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The Enfranchisement of Women
An essay published in the Westminster Review in July 1851, prompted by the women's rights convention held at Worcester, Massachusetts, in October 1850. It first reports the convention's…
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
A pamphlet published in Paris in September 1791 by a playwright and political writer, answering the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789,…
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Justice Interruptus
A collection of essays, subtitled Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition, written as the end of the Cold War seemed to leave the left without a clear programme.…
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Sex and Social Justice
A collection of fifteen essays in two parts, Justice and Sex, defending a liberal feminism grounded in universal values. Nussbaum argues that liberalism, properly understood, is radical for…
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Sophie’s World
A novel built around a history of Western philosophy. Sophie Amundsen, a fourteen-year-old Norwegian girl, finds two notes in her letterbox asking "Who are you?" and "Where does…
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The Story of Philosophy
A popular history of Western philosophy told through the lives and opinions of a handful of major thinkers. Durant developed it from short pamphlets he had written for…
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A Little History of Philosophy
A short history of Western philosophy in forty brief chapters, written for young readers and adults new to the subject. Warburton moves in roughly chronological order, giving each…
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