We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' En...

The Prophets of Doom explores eleven thinkers who not only dared to contradict the dominant linea...

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, ...

The Hippies Were Right!

The God Effect is the first book of its kind, revealing the way in which there is a common factor...

In this distillation of a lifetime's thinking about democracy, Maurice Pope presents a new model ...

Panpsychism is the philosophical view that consciousness, mentality, or 'mindedness' in some form...

The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it t...

In this brief introduction, Lakoff and Wehling reveal how cognitive science research has advanced...

Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new f...

This book surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public c...

Sortition - also known as random selection - puts ordinary people in control of decision-making i...

Globalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's local bank', English football teams without En...

The Landscape of Introspection, first published as a special issue of the Journal of Consciousnes...

In bringing cybernetic insights to her work as a cultural anthropologist, Mary Catherine Bateson ...

This book examines the UK's relationship with the European Union, together with a scrutiny of glo...

?They are scum, and do not deserve the same human rights as my decent constituents going about th...

Originally written in 1936 by two young Cambridge Fellows, A Guide to the Classics is a light-hea...

Christian anarchism has been around for at least as long as 'secular' anarchism. Leo Tolstoy is i...

Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues o...

In 1817 the great powers installed Leopold of Saxe- Coburg as king of Belgium ? a new, artificial...

This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. I...

In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, ...

This volume is a collection of articles on themes related to the book Laws of Form by George Spen...

Until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few...

The equation 'Mind Machine' is false. This pocket lexicon of 'neuromythology' shows why. Taking a...

Every human wonders what the meaning of their life is. The billions of souls that have ever lived...

The sixth volume in the series Michael Oakeshott: Selected Writings. From the 1920s to the 1980s ...

A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies debating the merits of Russell Hurlburt's...

The work of Michael Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about e...

The Past is a Future Country shows how a resistant class of intelligent, religious conservatives ...

A key paradigm in The Tango of Ethics is the conflict and interplay between two fundamentally dif...

The reality and validity of the moral sense ? which ordinary people take for granted ? took a bat...

Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our socie...

'Has the world gone mad?'...this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last ye...

This book discusses sortition while questioning its political consequences in terms of representa...

This volume presents a collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. Thi...

The author argues that we need a completely new paradigm concerning the nature of persons, and th...

Why were so many luminaries of European philosophy - such as Bergson, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau...

Autobiographical sketches by the philosopher and semioticist Ernst von Glasersfeld. The author wr...

A volume dedicated to the life and work of Francisco Varela, this is an issue of the journal 'Cyb...

This volume is grounded in a deep appreciation of the rich and cohesive constellation of ideas de...

This special double issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing is comprised of a collection of papers...

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on ...

Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the Lo...

Using artist statements, theoretical writings, statistical data, historical analysis and insider ...

More treasures from the archive of papers left by philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, edited by her d...