Popular Philosophy

'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.' Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for ha...

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics...

In recent years, society has focused more and more attention on the period between active working age and old age (or the Third Age). This book rep...

Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of...

Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects...

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNORFor almost fifty years, Michael Harding has be...

Meera Lee Patel's first guided journal, Start Where You Are, inspired thousands of readers through a rare combination of stunning watercolour art a...

Times mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound ph...

'Illuminating, riveting, and for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The las...

What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corp...

What does it mean to be human? What is knowledge? What is freedom? Philosophy offers answers to these questions, but are its rarefied arguments rel...

A confidence-boosting program based on the spiritual insights of Sanskrit, the language of enlightenment Draws on traditional stories from East an...

A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure....

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000 year old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...

A lucid and engaging book full of thought-provoking quotations, as well as clear explanations and definitions, this book is sure to appeal students...

'This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed  philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness  as well as a call to recover the pragm...

In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus - and the Christian values he promotes - by focusing solely on his tea...

Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between min...

Veronica Mars is a kick-ass private investigator, smart and street-wise. But what can her character tell us about larger life issues, such as knowl...

I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky: the sound of a cultu...

What makes me, me and you, you? What is this thing called love?   Does life have a point?  Is no the right answer to this question? Philosophy...

A brain workout book for uncertain times. We are living in a world where facts don't count, certainty no longer exists and complexity means we nev...

Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of ...

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with....