The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of …
Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly …
I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy In this extraordinary new book, renowned …
From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of …
What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics ? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of …
Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly …
