Philip Kitcher 
Preludes to Pragmatism [PDF ebook] 
Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

”Why should we care about philosophy?” Public philosophy, or ”doing philosophy” in the community, is an important and growing trend – revealed not only by the phenomenon of the Parisian philo …

Can we know what there is not? This book examines the historical development of the concept of the cognition of nonexistent objects in several major Buddhist philosophical schools. Beginning with …

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, l …

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language presents a systematic survey of philosophy of language in the Indian tradition, providing an up-to-date research resource for better …

What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that there be additional things that are not l …

In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to ”live well” in our …

Debates about whether the Wahhabist practice of face-veiling for women should be banned in modern liberal states tend to generate more heat than light. This book brings clarity to what can be a …

Engaging in existential discourse beyond the European tradition, this book turns to Asian philosophies to reassess vital questions of life”s purpose, death”s imminence, and our capacity for living …