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For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds ...
First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics ...
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 philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.In our daily ...
This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930?2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who ...
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 ...
We tend to regard exercise as pure physical exertion, a working of the muscles to develop (or show) bodily strength and vitality. We do not ...
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 ...
