Philosophy
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Rob Tempio
Publisher, Philosophy, Political Theory, & the Ancient World -
Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Humanities, Europe
The philosopher Wilfrid Sellars characterized the aim of philosophy as the effort βto understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.β 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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How to succeed in college the old-fashioned way
Around two thousand years ago, in a Greek city that had long been both politically and culturally under the sway of the Roman empire, a teenaged boy named Nicander participated in a coming-of-age ritual.
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Americans and Europeans must learn from each other on free speech
Americans and Europeans fundamentally misunderstand one another on free speech.
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You canβt bowl with a chatbot
Vehement negative reactions to people befriending, dating, or even marrying AI chatbots are everywhere. Why is that?
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The Case Against Education
Weβre continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurtβs seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Bryan Caplan is on education and bullshit, with a special focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money.
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Steven Nadler on Spinoza, Atheist
How could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? Steven Nadler, one of the worldβs leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that thatβs exactly what he was.
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