Epistemology

Aristotle asks, What is existence? How can things continue to exist yet change, and how can we best understand the world we live in? Find out....

In The Voice of Knowledge, don Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies....

Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought....

In Into the Unknown, astrophysicist Kelsey Johnson takes us to the edge of scientific understanding about the universe: What caused the Big Bang? What happens inside black holes? Are there other dimensions? She doesn’t just celebrate what we know but rather what we don’t.

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....

This gripping collection features the ideologies of Ted Kaczynski, as found in 'Industrial Society and Its Future,' and includes an original biography chronicling his life up to his death on June 10th, 2023....

First published in 1710, George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a seminal contribution to Empiricist philosophy....

As we stand on the cusp of a new political reality, the contours of personal freedom and autonomy are becoming increasingly well-defined.

By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....

Bertrand Russell, despite his immense erudition, is an everyman and every-woman philosopher. He is clear, engaging, and readable....

Taught by acclaimed Professor Joseph H. Shieber of Lafayette College, these 24 mind-bending lectures take you from ancient philosophers to contemporary neurobiologists, and from wide-ranging social networks to the deepest recesses of your own brain....

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....

In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....

Research is anchored by assumptions. How do we complete research—and why? This book—The Three Monkeys of Research—explores epistemology, ontology and methodology....

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People provides an engaging tour through the basic principles of logic, argument, evidence, and probability that can make all of us more reasonable and responsible citizens....

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history....

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is a core text of modern philosophy. The work brings together two opposing schools of philosophy—rationalism and empiricism—and proposes a third way, which came to be known as transcendental idealism....

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another....

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain a happy, tranquil life, characterized by peace and freedom from fear....

Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history....

This 16th century treatise is an extended analysis of how to acquire and maintain political power. It includes 26 chapters and an opening dedication to Lorenzo de Medici.

Credited as the Father of Liberalism and revered for his ground-breaking theories, John Locke left behind a legacy which has radically shaped political and philosophical thought for over 300 years....

Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyse the world around us....

More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy....

The Weirdness of the World reveals why all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thing....