Jon Elster & Helene Landemore 
Collective Wisdom [PDF ebook] 
Principles and Mechanisms

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment …

Eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct perennial problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs, origins, and potential fu …

This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by try …

Philosophy After Deleuze provides a concise and accessible introduction to Deleuze in relation to philosophical inquiry. The book shows how Deleuze »s work contributes to contemporary debates in each …

This collection of original essays explores metaethical views from outside the mainstream European tradition. The guiding motivation is that important discussions about the ultimate nature of moralit …

Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d »Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers. Holbach wrote, translated, edited, and issued a stream of books …

Badiou »s Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou »s summary interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gil …

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the  »aesthetics » of an artwork or a piece of design. But aes …

Most of us care about certain people and things, and some of these concerns become personal commitments, involving our values, our relationships, our work and our religious or political stances. But …

In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using – and indeed abusing – logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win ar …