Publication Spotlights

This 2025 book demonstrates the importance of causation in the physical world. It details why causal mastery of natural phenomena is an important part of the effective strategies of experimental physicists.

This 2024 collection of essays translated into Persian contains several articles on Kant's practical philosophy that were published between 2006 and 2021.

This 2023 book argues for a new understanding of the idea of fraternity in political liberalism.

This 2018 book rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power relations that shape how we understand and theorize political violence.

This 2024 book offers thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers that cover a broad range of areas where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world, including such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication.

This 2020 book offers in one comprehensive volume 37 chapters by the world's leading analytic and continental philosophers on the history of philosophy and race, and examines how race might be investigated within the frameworks of contemporary philosophy.

This 2019 book aims to present and defend a contextualist semantics of reasons locutions, which play a fundamental role in ethics and other areas of contemporary philosophy. The authors then use the contextualist theory to weigh in on central debates in the theory of reasons.

This 2013 book presents a theory that truth is an inconsistent concept, advocating its replacement for theoretical purposes with 'ascending truth' and 'descending truth'. The author introduces a new possible-worlds semantics and proposes viewing truth as a rational phenomena measurement system to handle the liar and other paradoxes.

This 2007 book is a comprehensive collection of sixteen pivotal papers by Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent figure in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Gathering his often scattered and elusive works, it aims to provide a definitive anthology of Sellars' significant contributions.

This 2019 book offers a careful and critical presentation of main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe's classic, Intention, at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.