What features of the world do smells pick out? What is the olfactory code?

Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...

Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew...

Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...

This book brings together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions...

O’Connor introduces the basics of game theory and its particular branch, evolutionary game theory...

We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....

How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience?

Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...

Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...

How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...

In recent years, questions around the nature of ​truth ​and ​facts have reentered public debate...

This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu

The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...

Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?

Travel has been a topic lurking in the background (at least) of a lot of philosophy.

Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...

Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...