Philosophy
Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the world
A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thing
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously
How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it’s an essential part of being human
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human
What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful
An investigation of what it means to have children—morally, philosophically and emotionally
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves
A constitutionalist reading of Plato’s political thought
A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopher
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals—and our vital relationships with them
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkers
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world’s leading philosophers of physics