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Open access philosophy books, a thread: Part IV

Brian Leiter

The last thread had fewer entries than earlier ones, but several months have past, perhaps readers can supply some new links. The instructions, as before:

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.

Submit your comment only once, it may take awhile to appear.  Do not post about books that have appeared in earlier iterations of these threads.

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3 responses to “Open access philosophy books, a thread: Part IV”

  1. Jonathan Cohen

    OUP has made open access (i believe permanently) my 2009 book, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology.
    link: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112440
    publisher’s book abstract: This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color — a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. The author first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in terms of relations between objects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against this thesis, and argues that relationalism offers the best hope of respecting both empirical results and ordinary belief about color. He then defends the more specific role-functionalist account by contending that the latter is the most plausible form of color relationalism.

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  2. Scott Wisdom

    WINDSOR STUDIES IN ARGUMENT (WSIA) aims to publish timely works in the theory of argumentation — understood broadly, in a way that encompasses informal logic, rhetoric, dialectics, and related fields.

    The University of Windsor’s Digital Press, under the auspices of the Leddy Library, publishes WSIA through the Open Monograph Press and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) – a multi-university initiative developing open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.

    All 16 volumes in the WSIA series are available in multiple formats (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) from the Windsor Studies in Argumentation website:

    https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog

    Copies may be printed from the website. Bound volumes are available through commercial booksellers like Amazon.

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  3. Andre Santos Campos

    The Semi-Future Democracy. A Liberal Theory of the Long-Term View (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
    Permanent Open Access. URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/ebooks/9781399534307.pdf

    Publisher’s book abstract: Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can harm the future. This book proposes a novel theory of social time perception to address the short-term thinking of traditional institutions which threaten to stifle liberal democracies. The semi-future reconfigures liberal democracies’ franchises, representative instruments, deliberative practices, accountability mechanisms, and policymaking to include in the demos all citizens, regardless of age, and holders of representable objective interests in the future. The result is not only a way to legitimise long-term governance but also to improve the quality of current democracies.

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