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Open access philosophy books: a thread

Brian Leiter

MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 3–MORE LINKS TO 'OPEN ACCESS' BOOKS WELCOME (new links at #24, below)

I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes books for which authors have paid for permanet open access (see, e.g., OUP's terms).

In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors or readers to share links to philosophical works that are currently or permanently "open access."  Please use your full name and a valid email address (the latter will not appear) and include the URL for the book (give the title and the author, if you are not the author).  Authors or readers can only say something about the work and what it tries to do.  Please indicate if the "open access" period is limited.  If the thread doesn't get too long, I'll move it to the front periodically to encourage more additions.  Once it gets too long, I'll start a new thread.  (Note:  you can just copy and paste the URL for the book, you don't need to format it.)

Since I am only catching a few of these open access books, I hope this thread will capture a wider range of the book-length work that is now available for free.

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  1. Dirk Schlimm

    Mathematical Notations.
    Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Mathematics. CUP 2025.

    Free download until the end of February 2025.

    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009472128

    Abstract:
    This Element lays the foundation, introduces a framework, and sketches the program for a systematic study of mathematical notations. It is written for everyone who is curious about the world of symbols that surrounds us, in particular researchers and students in philosophy, history, cognitive science, and mathematics education. The main characteristics of mathematical notations are introduced and discussed in relation to the intended subject matter, the language in which the notations are verbalized, the cognitive resources needed for learning and understanding them, the tasks that they are used for, their material basis, and the historical context in which they are situated. Specific criteria for the design and assessment of notations are discussed, as well as ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions that arise from the study of mathematical notations and of their use in mathematical practice.

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  2. Adam Feltz

    Feltz, A., & Cokely, E. T. (2024). Diversity and Disagreement: From Fundamental Biases to Ethical Interactions. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61935-9

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  3. Yujin Nagasawa

    Nagasawa, Yujin (2024), The Problem of Evil for Atheists, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-problem-of-evil-for-atheists-9780198901884

    Nagasawa, Yujin and Mohammad Saleh Zarepour (eds.) (2024), Global Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion: From Religious Experience to the Afterlife, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-dialogues-in-the-philosophy-of-religion-9780192865496

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  4. Eric Margolis

    Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis, The Building Blocks of Thought: A Rationalist Account of the Origins of Concepts (Oxford, 2024).

    https://academic.oup.com/book/57984

    Available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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  5. Thomas Mulligan

    Mulligan, T. 2018. Justice and the Meritocratic State. New York: Routledge.

    https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270005

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  6. Mike O'Brien

    Birch, Jonathan. The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precautions in Humans, Other Animals, and A.I. (Oxford, 2024).

    https://academic.oup.com/book/57949

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  7. Mike O'Brien

    Birch, Jonathan. The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precautions in Humans, Other Animals, and A.I. (Oxford, 2024).

    https://academic.oup.com/book/57949

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  8. Ned Block

    Block, N. (2023). The Border between Seeing and Thinking. New York, Oxford University Press. Permanently free download from OUP but they don't make the fact that it is free easy to see on the site. Click on the open lock:
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-border-between-seeing-and-thinking-9780197622223?cc=us&lang=en&

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  9. J. McKenzie Alexander

    Alexander, J. McKenzie. (2024). The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselves. LSE Press.

    Permanently free Open Access for PDF and EPUB versions.
    https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ose

    Abstract (taken from the blurb on the back cover): Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the Open Society are now, by many people, seen as vices, dangers, or threats.

    The Open Society as an Enemy interrogates four interconnected aspects of the Open Society: cosmopolitanism, transparency, the free exchange of ideas, and communitarianism. Each of these is analysed in depth, drawing out the implications for contemporary social questions such as the free movement of people, the erosion of privacy, no-platforming and the increased political and social polarisation that is fuelled by social media. In re-examining the consequences for all of us of these attacks on free societies, Alexander calls for resistance to the forces of reaction, and for the concept of the Open Society to be rehabilitated and advanced.

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  10. Adrian kind

    How Does the Psychiatrist Know? (by Adrian Kind, 2024)

    How do clinical psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions? Little attention has been directed to this question by philosophers of psychiatry. Adrian Kind presents a systematic, in-depth philosophical investigation into this question and argues that psychiatric diagnostic reasoning can be understood as a model-based reasoning procedure analogous to scientific model-based reasoning. To support this, he draws on ideas from the philosophy of science, psychiatry, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This study is an invaluable resource for practicing psychiatrists, philosophers interested in psychiatry, and researchers in artificial intelligence or cognitive science interested in medical cognition.

    Permanently Open Access

    https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7674-7/how-does-the-psychiatrist-know/

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  11. Nicola Mößner

    Reicher, Maria E. (2025): Meinongianism. Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009181068

    open access till 28th February 2025

    Summary
    Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this book, Meinong's so-called object theory as well as “neo-Meinongian” reconstructions are presented and discussed, especially with respect to logical issues, both from a historical and a systematic perspective. Among others, the following topics are addressed: basic principles and motivations for Meinongianism; the distinction between “there is” (“x”) and “exists” (“E!”); interpretations and kinds of quantification; Meinongianism, the principle of excluded middle and the principle of non-contradiction; the nuclear-extranuclear distinction and modes of predication; varieties of neo-Meinongianism and Meinongian logics.

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  12. Finnur Dellsen

    Dellsén, Finnur. 2024. Abductive Reasoning in Science. Cambridge (Elements in Philosophy of Science).

    Permanently open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abductive-reasoning-in-science/A380186A1C38650BB9842AF9536D235D

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  13. Simon Kirchin

    Simon Kirchin (2017) Thick Evaluation (Oxford: OUP), pp. 212

    Permanent open access:

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thick-evaluation-9780198803430?cc=gb&lang=en&

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

    We use evaluative terms and concepts every day. We call actions right and wrong, teachers wise and ignorant, and pictures elegant and grotesque. Philosophers place evaluative concepts into two camps. Thin concepts, such as goodness and badness, and rightness and wrongness have evaluative content, but they supposedly have no or hardly any nonevaluative, descriptive content: they supposedly give little or no specific idea about the character of the person or thing described. In contrast, thick concepts such as kindness, elegance and wisdom supposedly give a more specific idea of people or things. Yet, given typical linguistic conventions, thick concepts also convey evaluation. Kind people are often viewed positively whilst ignorance has negative connotations.

    The distinction between thin and thick concepts is frequently drawn in philosophy and is central to everyday life. However, very few articles or books discuss the distinction. In this full-length study, Simon Kirchin discusses thin and thick concepts, highlighting key assumptions, questions and arguments, many of which have gone unnoticed. Kirchin focuses in on the debate between 'separationists' (those who think that thick concepts can be separated into component parts of evaluative, often very 'thin', content and nonevaluative content) and 'nonseparationists' (who deny this).

    Thick Evaluation argues for a version of nonseparationism, and in doing so argues both that many concepts are evaluative and also that evaluation is not exhausted by thin positive and negative stances.

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  14. Aaron Preston

    Willard, Dallas. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge. Porter, Preston and Ten Elshof, eds. Routledge, 2018.

    Permanent Open Access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429491764

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  15. David Velleman

    The following books of are open-access:
    Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Open Book Publishers 2015)
    Foundations for Moral Relativism (Open Book Publishers 2013; second, expanded edition 2015)
    The Possibility of Practical Reason (second, expanded edition Maize Books, University of Michigan 2015)
    Self to Self: selected essays, second edition (Maize Books, University of Michigan 2020).

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  16. John Dupré

    Nicholson, Daniel J.and John Dupré (eds.) Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford, 2018.

    https://academic.oup.com/book/27525

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  17. Daniel Groll

    Groll, Daniel. Conceiving people: Genetic knowledge and the ethics of sperm and egg donation. Oxford University Press, 2021.

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/conceiving-people-9780190063054

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  18. David Bather Woods

    Jakob Norberg, 'Schopenhauer's Politics' (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009491501

    I reviewed the manuscript and strongly recommend!

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  19. Daniel Hill

    Matthew J Hart, Daniel J Hill, _Does God Intend that Sin Occur?_ (Palgrave, 2022)
    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06570-5
    On permanent open access. A specialized work in applied philosophy of religion/philosophical theology, answering the question in the title (in the affirmative).

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  20. Jake Wojtowicz

    Archer, Alfred and Jake Wojtowicz, Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan. Routledge, 2024.

    Permanent open access
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003271277/ok-sports-fan-alfred-archer-jake-wojtowicz?context=ubx&refId=263554aa-9351-4516-9948-29d4b98143d0

    This book offers readers a pitch-side view of the ethics of fandom. Its accessible six chapters are aimed both at true sports fans whose conscience may be occasionally piqued by their pastime, and at those who are more certain of the moral hazards involved in following a team or sport.

    Why It’s OK to Be a Sports Fan wrestles with a range of arguments against fandom and counters with its own arguments on why being a fan is very often a good thing. It looks at the ethical issues fans face, from the violent or racist behavior of those in the stands, to players’ infamous misdeeds, to owners debasing their own clubs. In response to these moral risks, the book argues that by being critical fans, followers of a team or individual can reap the benefits of fandom while avoiding many of the ethical pitfalls. The authors show the value in deeply loving a team but also how a condition of this value is recognizing that the love of a fan comes with real limits and responsibilities.

    Provides an accessible introduction to a key area of the philosophy of sport
    Closely looks at some of the salient ethical concerns around sports fandom
    Proposes that the value of community in partisan fandom should not be underestimated as a key feature of the good life
    Examines how the same emotions and environments that can lead to violence are identical to those that lead to virtuous loyalty
    Argues for a fan’s responsibility in calling out violence or racist behavior from their fellow fans

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  21. Paolo Sandro

    Paolo Sandro, The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Hart Publishing, 2022)

    Permanent open access:
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656

    This open access book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. In our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm, or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of creating and applying the law. However, when legal scholars have analysed this distinction in their theories (rather than simply assuming it), many have undermined it, if not dismissed it as untenable.

    The book considers the relevance of distinguishing between law-creation and law-application and how this transcends the boundaries of jurisprudential enquiry. It argues that such a distinction is also a crucial component of political theory. For if there is no possibility of applying a legal rule that was created by a different institution at a previous moment in time, then our current constitutional-democratic frameworks are effectively empty vessels that conceal a power relationship between public authorities and citizens that is very different from the one on which constitutional democracy is grounded.

    After problematising the most relevant objections in the literature, the book presents a comprehensive defence of the distinction between creation and application of law within the structure of constitutional democracy. It does so through an integrated jurisprudential methodology, which combines insights from different disciplines (including history, anthropology, political science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action) while also casting new light on long-standing issues in public law, such as the role of legal discretion in the law-making process and the scope of the separation of powers doctrine.

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  22. Nathan Nobis

    Nathan Nobis & Kristina Grob, Thinking Critically About Abortion, 2019, Open Philosophy Press, at http://www.AbortionArguments.com

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  23. Nicola Mößner

    Mößner, Nicola: Visual Representations in Science – Concept and Epistemology. London, New York: Routledge 2018, [DOI: 10.4324/9781315108902].

    Abstract
    Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Despite their important functional roles in scientific practices, philosophers of science have more or less neglected visual representations in their analyses of epistemic methods and tools of reasoning in science. This book is meant to fill this gap. It presents a detailed investigation into central conceptual issues and into the epistemology of visual representations in science.

    Permanent open access: chapter 4 "The epistemic status of scientific visualisations"

    This chapter focuses on the explanatory context of science, the context of information transmission and the role of visual representations therein. Are visual representations a suitable means in this epistemic context at all, and are there epistemic purposes that visual representations are particularly suitable to serve in comparison with competing modes of representation? To find answers to these questions, the chapter proceeds as follows:

    firstly, an examination is needed concerning the basic philosophical problem that underlies the discussion of the epistemic status of scientific images. The question is why philosophers are concerned about visual representations in epistemic processes at all. What do they think is wrong with scientific practices making use of images? Is there anything wrong at all? It will be explained why philosophers think that visual representations are no suitable means to be used in argumentation.

    Secondly,the cognitive content of visual representations will be analyzed. The discussion will lead to the task of more seriously considering the way cognitive access is obtained to the content of visualisations, namely via perception. It has to be asked what kind of knowledge we acquire by making use of this epistemic source. What follows from the fact that we access pictorial information by vision as the primary sense of human beings to cognitively access the world?

    Thirdly, acknowledging the fact that the information process is based on perception in this way makes clear in what sense scientific images can actually be worth, in Kitcher and Varzi’s words, “2aleph0” words. Two points will be highlighted here: on the one hand, different kinds of knowledge and the question in what sense visual representations might be particularly
    helpful in their transmission. On the other hand, it will analyzed in what sense visualisations might contribute to achieve scientific understanding.

    https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108902

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  24. Mahmoud El-Youssef

    Shea, Nicholas. (2018). Representation in Cognitive Science. OUP.
    https://academic.oup.com/book/26604

    Shea, Nicholas. (2024). Concepts at the Interface. OUP.
    https://academic.oup.com/book/58062

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  25. David Thorstad

    Thorstad, David (2024). Inquiry under bounds. OUP. https://academic.oup.com/book/57345

    Gives an account of rational inquiry for bounded agents.

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  26. Carl Gillett

    Carl Gillett. Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science.
    Cambridge Elements, Metaphysics

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/reduction-emergence-and-the-metaphysics-in-science/5F5BB9372558308C66FBEEF52A6295B4#element

    Abstract: This Element offers a fresh treatment of the two cycles of reduction–emergence debates in the sciences and their “reductionist” and “emergentist” positions. It suggests philosophers have neglected the compositional models/explanations, and the “endogenous” kind of metaphysics, central to these debates. It highlights how such
    endogenous metaphysics underpins what is termed the Dynamic Cycle, by which scientists develop novel ontological concepts to underwrite new models/explanations to solve scientific problems. And it subsequently shows that the reductionist and emergentist views in the scientific debates follow the Dynamic Cycle. In the first cycle of debates,
    in the early twentieth century, the Element outlines how “Everyday Reductionism” pioneered a novel family of compositional models/explanations in one of the most successful research movements in twentieth-century science. And, in current debates, it frames contemporary emergentist positions offering ontological innovations, underwriting new families of models, to address problems at the cutting edge of twenty-first century science

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  27. Jeff Kochan

    Kochan, Jeff (2017). Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers).

    Permanent, platinum open-access.

    Publisher’s promotional blurb: “In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing.

    “By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger’s philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject.”

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  28. Teresa Baron

    The Artificial Womb on Trial (2025) Cambridge Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics – permanent open access

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/artificial-womb-on-trial/F74D45F1B5AE2C2ACD8A51FDEDE482EA

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  29. Anthony Skelton

    Anthony Skelton, Sidgwick's Ethics

    Cambridge Elements in Ethics

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/sidgwicks-ethics/22B8B3653C8394B2A67457484333FE3D

    Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics is one of the most important and influential works in the history of moral philosophy. The Methods of Ethics clarifies and tackles some of the most enduring and difficult problems of morality. It offers readers a high-calibre example of analytical moral philosophy. This Element interprets and critically evaluates select positions and arguments in Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics. It focuses specifically on Sidgwick's moral epistemology, his argument against common-sense morality, his argument for utilitarianism, his argument for rational egoism, and his argument for what he calls 'the dualism of practical reason', the thesis that utilitarianism and rational egoism are coordinate but conflicting requirements of rationality. Sidgwick's Ethics attempts to acquaint readers with the scholarly and theoretical debates relating to Sidgwick's theses, while providing readers with a greater appreciation of the depth and sophistication of Sidgwick's masterpiece.

    This book is free for the next two weeks, from 24 February to 10 March.

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  30. Jacob Joseph Andrews

    Schumaker, Lydia, ed. (2020). The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41226

    Bychkov, Oleg, and Lydia Schumaker,eds. A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis. https://research.library.fordham.edu/philos/26/

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  31. Christoph Schirmer

    American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration
    Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory
    Edited by: Sander Verhaegh
    2025, De Gruyter, permanent OA
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111335209/html

    Gestures
    Approaches, Uses, and Developments
    Edited by: Giovanni Maddalena , Fabio Ferrucci , Michela Bella and Matteo Santarelli
    2024, De Gruyter, permanent OA
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110785845/html

    Paul Guyer
    Knowledge, Freedom, and Taste
    2024, De Gruyter, permanent OA
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111544731/html

    Elisabeth Theresia Widmer
    Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School
    2024, De Gruyter, permanent OA
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111331843/html

    Benoît Vermander
    The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
    2023, De Gruyter, permanent OA
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110799118/html

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  32. Jeff Yoshimi

    Yoshimi, Jeff, Philip Walsh, and Patrick Londen. eds. (2023). Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and its Applications.

    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26074-2

    Publishing open access with Springer at that time was a massive hassle (gathering open access payments from 5 or 6 different institutions using separate small grants), but I was glad we prevailed in the end.

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  33. Ludwig Jaskolla

    Panentheism and Panpsychism
    Philosophy of Religion Meets Philosophy of Mind

    https://brill.com/display/title/55646

    Panpsychism has become a highly attractive position in the philosophy of mind. On panpsychism, both the physical and the mental are inseparable and fundamental features of reality. Panentheism has also become immensely popular in the philo-sophy of religion. Panentheism strives for a higher reconciliation of an atheistic pantheism, on which the universe itself is causa sui, and the ontological dualism of necessarily existing, eternal creator and contingent, fi nite creation. Historically and systematically, panpsychism and panentheism often went together as essential parts of an all-embracing metaphysical theory of Being.
    The present collection of essays analyses the relation between panpsychism and panentheism and provides critical reflections on the significance of panpsychistic and panentheistic thinking for recent debates in philosophy and theology.

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  34. Andrew Beck

    Here's a link to all of Routledge's OA titles that have at least one subject code (most books have several) in philosophy: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?sortBy=relevance&fullyOABook=true&subject=SCHU04&key=

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  35. Iain Thomson

    Iain Thomson, Heidegger on Technology's Danger and Promise in the Age of AI, is free to download for the next two weeks from Cambridge University Press:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/heidegger-on-technologys-danger-and-promise-in-the-age-of-ai/5861960F9C0E5BFFE2426EF7177878F3

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  36. John J. Tilley

    Cool new book, free to download until 6 March, 2025:

    Timothy D. Lyons, Scientific Realism, Cambridge University Press, 2025 (Cambridge Elements Series).

    https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=LYOSRY&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1017%2F9781108588430

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  37. Dominic McIver Lopes

    The Geography of Taste, by Dominic McIver Lopes, Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay

    Aesthetic and artistic preferences and practices vary widely between individuals and between cultures. To enjoy flamenco, for example, requires an entirely different cognitive approach and emotional attitude than that required to appreciate Bharatanatyam. In this collaborative work, four philosophers reconceive the philosophy of art and aesthetics by taking aesthetic diversity and cultural specificity, rather than universality, as the starting points of inquiry. Why are aesthetic and artistic responses so diverse? To what extent might they originate in universal human capacities? Can members of one culture enjoy and understand the artistic products of another? Or do they do each other injustice in the attempt? Is diversity a valuable feature of aesthetic and artistic engagement? To model what the turn toward diversity might look like in aesthetic inquiry, each author defends a different account of aesthetic diversity, and all engage in a collective dialogue about these issues.

    https://academic.oup.com/book/59052

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  38. Matthew Kramer

    Chapter 2 of Matthew Kramer, "Rights and Right-Holding" (OUP, 2024) is an open-access chapter. My subvention was not sufficient to make the whole book open-access, but Chapter 2 will be of particular interest to some readers as a lengthy exposition of the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral relationships (with particular attention to the role of logical quantification in that analysis).

    https://academic.oup.com/book/58042

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  39. David Stern

    Andrew Lugg, Wittgenstein on Colour, 1916–1950, Cambridge University Press, 2025 (Cambridge Elements Series).
    Free download until 13th March, 2025.

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/wittgenstein-on-colour-19161950/DE85EDCB5892BCAB3451E7D2D744D863

    Abstract:
    A study of Wittgenstein on the logic of colour concepts. His remarks on the subject in the Tractatus are considered first, then the remarks he drafted when he returned to philosophy after a decade away fromit, then his treatment of colour concepts during the next two decades followed by the remarks in Remarks on Colour. The emphasis is on the problems he examines and the solutions he proposes. His discussion of colour incompatibility is defended, his examination of colour concepts in the 1930s and 1940s detailed and explained, and the remarks he composed at the end of his life considered with an eye to why they were written and what they add to remarks previously composed. It is argued that his aims are different from those normally attributed to him and, while he achieves a great deal, he does not resolve all the problems he tackles.

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  40. Ben Young

    Benjamin Young, Stinking Philosophy!: Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness, MIT press, 2024 OA

    https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5811/Stinking-Philosophy-Smell-Perception-Cognition-and

    Abstract
    Stinking Philosophy! presents a methodology for addressing the philosophical and conceptual issues raised by the sense of smell. The book explores how the philosophy of smell contributes to—and advances—a wide range of debates within philosophy of mind, perception, and cognitive neuroscience. Ultimately, it demonstrates how empirically informed philosophy can have a significant impact on interdisciplinary research on smell across philosophy, the chemosciences, and neuroscience.

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  41. Adrian Bardon

    Adrian Bardon, The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion (Oxford University Press 2020): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-truth-about-denial-9780190062279?cc=us&lang=en&#

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  42. Lisa Herzog

    Lisa Herzog, Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy (OUP 2023): https://academic.oup.com/book/46849?login=false.

    Unfortunately, thanks to Trump the topics have become even more timely.

    Abstract:
    Many democratic societies struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news spreads online and offline, and there is distrust of experts, but also fear of technocratic tendencies. Citizen Knowledge discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can markets play in processing decentralized knowledge? The book takes on the perspective of “democratic institutionalism,” which focuses on the institutions that enable an inclusive and stable democratic life. It argues that the fraught relation between democracy and capitalism gets out of balance if too much knowledge is treated according to the logic of markets rather than democracy. Complex societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, among which markets, democratic deliberation, and expert communities are central. Citizen Knowledge emphasizes the responsibility of bearers of knowledge and the need to support institutions that support active and informed citizenship. It develops the vision of an egalitarian society that considers the use of knowledge in society not a matter of markets, but of shared democratic responsibility, supported by epistemic infrastructures. It contributes to political epistemology, a new subdiscipline of philosophy, with a focus on the interrelation between economic and political processes. It analyzes the current situation, drawing on the history of ideas and on systematic arguments about the nature of knowledge and epistemic justice, developing proposals for reforms.

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  43. Mark McBride

    Mark McBride (2017) Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge. (Open Book Publishers)

    https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0104

    As the link details, Chris Tucker (who disclosed his identity as a referee after the fact) endorses the book, while Robin McKenna reviews in Social Epistemology, and Arturs Logins reviews in Dialectica.

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