Popular Philosophy

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

We make moral judgments about all sorts of things, both mundane and momentous. But are any of these moral judgments actually true? The moral error ...

What is the secret to lasting happiness? In The Stoicism Workbook, readers learn how thinking like Socrates and other Stoics-and using the Socratic...

This book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical...

This book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical...

Curiosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. This is the first to do so, with its twelv...

The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, whic...

Ever since it was first unleashed in 1818 the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired intense debate...

Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. the philosopher-king of comedy, and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty-five ph...

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek have been, like iek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, w...

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophyand what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of...

Having children is one of the biggest decisions youll make in your life. Increasingly, we arent making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reas...

The Anatomy of Justice argues for a reorientation in liberal egalitarian theorizing about justice. Gina Schouten argues that the orientation she pr...

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928--1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture--both movies directly based on hi...

To be someoneto be anyoneis aboutnot being someone else. Millers amused and inspired book is utterly compelling.Adam PhillipsA compendium of expres...

A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Charming and brilliant. Times Literary Supplement Provocative, stimulating, wisethe book that our succe...

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the central ideas of politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and...

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' ...

From the ethicist the New Yorker calls the most influential living philosopher, a new way of thinking about living ethicallySingers argument is pow...

Plato's dialogues, featuring his famous mentor Socrates, often prove difficult to understand for many contemporary readers. Students today miss the...

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.Drew Afualo is best known as the internets 'Cr...