Philosophy
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Rob Tempio
Publisher, Philosophy, Political Theory & Ancient World -
Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Europe
The philosopher Wilfrid Sellars characterized the aim of philosophy as the effort “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.” Animated by a similar purpose, the philosophy list publishes widely across the field topically and historically, in order to provide the broadest possible understanding of the world and how to live wisely within it.
With strengths in the history of philosophy and moral and political philosophy, we publish books that reach into adjacent fields and we seek to engage general readers in search of the wisdom philosophy has to offer.
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Ovid’s 38 recommendations for getting over a breakup
Ever gone through a breakup? You’re not alone. In the year 1 CE, the Roman poet Ovid published a poem titled "Remedies for Love", and it suggests that relationships haven’t changed much in two thousand years.
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Working and investing as an ancient Roman
Encountering the Romans in the marketplace and observing how they made a living allows us to discover how they negotiated the central questions of civilization.
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How to Be Queer
How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.
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Liberalism may be the source of your soul
The most obvious and important realities can sometimes be the hardest to think and talk about.
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Why we practice magic
Not many academic philosophers discuss magic, however, five centuries ago, prominent Renaissance philosophers wrote extensive treatises on the topic.
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Listen in: The Weirdness of the World
Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical?
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Edited by Robert B. Talisse and Scott F. Aikin
