Philosophy:

Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.95

A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with...

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Willing to Learn
Passages of Personal Discovery
Written by Mary Catherine Bateson

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $24.99

Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected. This collection can be read as a memoir of unfolding curiosity, for it brings together essays and occasional pieces, many... Read more >

Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $14.99

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous—hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science—has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
 
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the...

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Evidence and Inquiry
A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
Written by Susan Haack

Format: Trade Paperback, 425 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2009
Price: $21.95

Described by Hilary Putnam as "both a fine introduction and a significant contribution"
to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as "at once comprehensive … and judicious," Evidence and Inquiry is unique both in its scope and in its originality. C. I. Lewis’s foundationalism, BonJour’s and Davidson’s coherentism, Popper’s critical rationalism, Quine’s... Read more >

Nietzsche and the English
The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy
Written by Thomas H. Brobjer

Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $39.99

Friedrich Nietzsche—one of the most read and discussed philosophers of all time—is frequently regarded as a quintessentially German philosopher, yet one who had strong anti-German tendencies and late in his development turned increasingly pro-French. However, his relation to British-American thinking and culture has been largely ignored, although its focus on progress... Read more >

The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $30.00

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >

Skepticism
An Anthology
Written by Richard H. Popkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2007
Price: $29.99

This anthology contains the principal texts of the skeptical tradition from its origins in antiquity to contemporary philosophy. Selections include the writings of both well-known and lesser-known but influential philosophers of the Western tradition who either advanced skeptical views or dealt with skeptical issues for other philosophical or religious purposes. An... Read more >

Susan Haack
A Lady of Distinction-The Philosopher Responds to Her Critics
Edited by Cornelis De Waal

Format: Hardcover, 362 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2006
Price: $35.99

In this critical appraisal of the work of philosopher Susan Haack, editor Cornelis de Waal has assembled sixteen original essays from outstanding international contributors together with responses from Haack on the points raised. The contributors address most of Haack’s key publications, from her early writings on metaphysics to her most recent... Read more >

On the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Written by Karl Hillebrand

Format: Trade Paperback, 189 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2006
Price: $13.99

"Schopenhauer’s analyses of causation and related concepts ... rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed hopelessly dark" – Richard Taylor
This... Read more >

Marx, Reason, And the Art of Freedom

Written by Kevin M. Brien

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2005
Price: $25.99

In this analysis of the problem of freedom from a humanistic-Marxist perspective, philosopher Kevin M. Brien draws on the full chronological spectrum of Marx’s writings to reconstruct the mature Marx’s view of freedom under three broad categories: freedom as a mode of being, freedom as transcendence, and freedom as spontaneity.

While recognizing... Read more >

Keywords: Truth

Edited by Nadia Tazi

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2004
Price: $15.00

The Alliance of Independent Publishers, a literary organization "dedicated to a different kind of globalization" and the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation have invited Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House (China), Arab Cultural Center (Morocco and Lebanon), Double Storey Books (South Africa), Sage India (India), Editions La Decouverte (France), and Other Press... Read more >

Eros and the Good
Wisdom According to Nature
Written by James S. Gouinlock

Format: Hardcover, 363 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $32.99

Plato defined eros as the yearning for things beautiful and good. It is on this original sense that philosopher James Gouinlock bases this insightful study of ethics and wisdom. Gouinlock argues that the only fruitful way to evaluate the norms of social life is to understand them as natural forces, not... Read more >

Challenging Postmodernism
Philosophy and the Politics of Truth
Written by David Detmer

Format: Trade Paperback, 354 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $38.99

According to proponents of postmodernism, one of the principal achievements of recent Continental philosophy is the rejection of the idea of "objective truth" in favor of the notion that truth is a social construct, which varies from one culture to another. This claim has given rise to heated reactions among philosophers... Read more >

The Laws of Thought

Written by George Boole

Format: Trade Paperback, 472 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $16.99

This groundbreaking work on logic by the brilliant 19th-century English mathematician George Boole remains influential to this day. Boole's major contribution was to demonstrate conclusively that the symbolic expressions of algebra could be adapted to convey the fundamental principles and operations of logic, which hitherto had been expressed only in words... Read more >