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Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others

Wilson David Sloan

ISBN: PB: 9780300219883, ISBN: HB: 9780300189490, Yale University Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth's creatures? The key to understa...

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Most Good You Can Do How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300219869, Yale University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effe...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Orphans Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

Mitchell Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300208894, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social a...

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Philosophy

Life After Faith The Case for Secular Humanism

Kitcher Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780300216851, Yale University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative – how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher construc...

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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Philosophy

Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...

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Philosophy

Animots: Post Animality in French Thought Yale French Studies, Number 127

Senior Matthew, Clark David L., Freccero Carla

ISBN: PB: 9780300206654, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest volume of "Yale French Studies" addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the U.K., and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosoph...

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Philosophy

New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness

Shili Xiong, Makeham John

ISBN: HB: 9780300191578, Yale University Press, July 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between...

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Philosophy

Culture and the Death of God

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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