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My new book Aging and the Ethics of Longevity Science has just been published as an open access book with…
There will be many, many human tragedies to result from this senseless decision by our senior management. But what a…
Cambridge makes new volumes in its Elements series freely available for a couple of weeks following publication. My own “Innateness…
Matthew Ratcliffe. 2023. Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. MIT Press (open access with no time limit) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5524/Grief-WorldsA-Study-of-Emotional-Experience “Experiences…
Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI by Jamie Terence Kelly https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-26782-5 Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 Permanently Open…
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:
Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, etc. by Galen Strawson (New York Review Books, 2018).
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolo Guicciardini (Reaktion Books, 2018)
A Philosophy of Dirt by Olli Lagerspetz (Reaktion Books, 2018).
The Province of Jurisprudence Naturalized edited by Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brozek & Lukasz Kurek (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).
Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre (MIT Press, 2018).
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