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Ariel Salleh

Decolonise Ecomodernism!

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples' lands and bodies. Today, that …

Ellen Clarke

The Units of Life

In The Units of Life Ellen Clarke argues that our way of conceptualizing living things--of understanding the living world as carved up into numerous separate chunks--is best understood as idealization. Th…

Lois Shepherd, Margaret E Mohrmann

Welcome

Welcome: Patterns of the Moral Life proposes a transformative concept that places the act of welcoming at the core of ethical living and human flourishing. This radical approach asserts that welcome is no…

Stacy A Trasancos

Ivf Is Not the Way

In a May 2024 Pew poll, more than two-thirds of Americans indicated they thought that IVF (in vitro fertilization) is good and should be accessible to anyone who wants it. Even among social conservatives …

Ben Lamm

The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

Ultimate Hip-Hop

N Katherine Hayles

Bacteria to AI

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Kat…

Romain Brette

The Brain, in Theory

Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognitionMainstream theories of the brain are often expressed through engineering concepts---computation, code, con…

Responding to Climate Crisis

Earth and all its communities of life are experiencing a climate crisis, a phrase broadly understood here as the disruption of the Earth's systems. This disruption, caused by social, political, economic, …

Mike Dacey

Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds

In Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds, Dacey focuses on the best ways to scientifically study animal minds, providing novel treatments for seven specific challenges, while also developing a …

Steven Sloman

The Cost of Conviction

"A deep dive into the topic of sacred values and how they influence our individual decision making, group identity, and political discourse"--

Robert George

Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth

A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectualsIn Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one of …

Brandon Ambrosino

Is It God's Will?

" Brandon Ambrosino offers a compelling conversation about God's role in human affairs, and our response to God's sometimes mysterious activity." ― James Martin, SJ, New York Times bestselling a…

Jim Stump

The Sacred Chain

"In this marvelously accessible book, philosopher-Christian Jim Stump provides the reader with new eyes for a journey through time, the origin of the soul, suffering, and morality, and reveals how th…

Stacy Alaimo

The Abyss Stares Back

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also…

The Paradox of the Organism

The unity of the organism-an assembly of organs, tissues, cells, and genes working toward a common goal-has long been taken for granted. The essays in this collection pierce the organismal veil to conside…

Edward C Sellner

Kindred Spirits

Brilliant interweaving of American writers Thomas Merton and Jack Kerouac, and the influence of Buddhism upon themThis book is about two twentieth century giants: the Catholic monk and spiritual writer Th…

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Living on Earth

One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed do…

Vance G Morgan

A Year of Faith and Philosophy

An exploration of the range of human emotions and interactions as reflected in the lectionary stories of the liturgical year, through the curious, thought-provoking lens of a philosopher.In this compellin…