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An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox ...
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.
The transformative potential ...
Translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch
'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the ...
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism: the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to ...
Succinctly distills each of the great philosophers' best-known theories through their most famous quotes--from Aristotle to WittgensteinWe may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes, and ...
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and ...
A magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture and how their ...
Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either ...
Questions of ethics - about how we should act, our responsibilities to one another, the difference between right and wrong - have long been debated by philosophers ...
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five ...
The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or ...