By examining the way we acquire knowledge of the world around us, Russell explores what separates scientific knowledge from our ‘seeming’ consciousness, and in doing so, significantly advances the discourse on the meaning and function of philosophy.

The very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy is examined in this explosive and controversial work which investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge, and questions the means by which we come to understand the physical world.

With a new foreword by Dermot Moran

'the work here presented seeks to found a new science - though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it - a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental Subjectivity"' - Edmund Husserl, from the author's preface to the English Edition

Widely regarded as the principal founder of phenomenology, one of the most important movements in twentieth century ph...

Exploring women’s experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth. The two authors – leading philosophers in this field – build the book around a single question: what, if anything, is common to all truths, which makes them true?

Jauernig defends the view that all living beings are of equal moral worth and are owed compassion, on account of which we are also obligated to adopt a vegan diet. Fischer denies that we have an obligation to become vegans, and argues for the position that humans morally matter more than all other living creatures.

The Ego and Its Own is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of, on the one hand, Christianity, nationalism and traditional morality, and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism.

Stirner believed that there was no objective social reality independent of the individu...

In deze nieuwe, vloeiende vertaling blijken de geheimzinnige teksten van Heraclitus tijdloos te zijn.

De nagelaten teksten van Heraclitus zijn gekerfd in het marmer van de zesde eeuw voor Christus, maar ze gaan ook over ons, hier en nu. Ze tonen ons een spiegel waarin we herkennen wat het is om een mens te zijn, op zoek naar houvast, waarheid, onszelf, een inzicht in het juiste handelen en het begrip van de vrijheid en de onvrijheid van het bestaan.

Heraclitus’ optimistische antropologie d...

In dit prikkelende essay over publieke waarden gaat Ronald van Raak te rade bij de grootste filosofen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis.

Erasmus en Spinoza zijn filosofen die in ons land lang werden gehaat, om vervolgens te worden vereerd. Denkers die in weinig opzichten met elkaar te vergelijken zijn, maar toch beiden symbolen werden van vrijheid en tolerantie. Erasmus hield tijdgenoten een morele spiegel voor in zijn Lof der Zotheid (1511). Spinoza beschreef in zijn Ethica (1677) een uitdagen...