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Stephen Batchelor compares the Buddha and Socrates through method rather than doctrine: neither wrote a book, and each proceeded by questioning.
Yale University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Philippe Huneman examines the effect on identity and the social fabric of predictive algorithms that place an individual into a class of probability.
Stanford University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah examines the mutual construction of religion and the birth of the social sciences: as the disciplines were established in the nineteenth century, the concept of 'religion' was itself reshaped.
Yale University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk's essays on Europe. The title alludes to Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities: a continent that cannot decide what to call itself.
Polity · 2026 · English · Translated by Robert Hughes (English translation)
Giorgio Agamben
The notes Giorgio Agamben took at Heidegger's Le Thor seminars in Provence in 1966 and 1968. A primary document of the formation of the young Agamben's thought.
University of Chicago Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Slavoj Žižek
The new volume in Žižek's Essays, the series gathering Slavoj Žižek's essays into thematic collections. Published on 29 October 2026.
Bloomsbury · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Yuk Hui
Yuk Hui carries Kant's transcendental idealism into the centre of the argument about artificial intelligence and robotics: what may be called an intelligent machine, can machines be moral, is there an algorithm for perpetual peace?
Bloomsbury · 2026 · English
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Duncan Pritchard
Duncan Pritchard explains risk through fragility rather than probability, and uses Alex Honnold's free solo ascent of El Capitan to argue for the place of luck and risk in a meaningful life. 216 pages.
Princeton University Press · 2026 · English
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Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum reads opera, along a line running from Mozart to Verdi and Britten, as a field of political freedom. 312 pages.
Oxford University Press · 2026 · English
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Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein argues that what distinguishes the human is the need to matter, and shows that need standing at the source both of our greatest achievements and of loneliness, extremism and polarisation.
W. W. Norton & Company · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Krista Lawlor argues that being reasonable is not the same as being rational: the reasonable person is one who can see what is valuable and can read another person's map of value. 224 pages.
Harvard University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →The latest form of Raymond Geuss's objection to the moralisation of political philosophy. Essays on political realism, the critique of universalism, solidarity and the role of fear in censorship.
Polity · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Iulia Nistor treats horror films not as a genre but as an instrument of philosophical thinking: the aesthetics of fear read through Aristotle's catharsis, Kant's sublime, Kristeva's abject and Heidegger's anxiety.
transcript Verlag · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Amy Olberding, who works on Confucian ethics, set out to write a dispassionate book about grief after taking over the family farm in the Ozarks, and failed. The lyric mosaic that resulted is about loss, and also about the class mask the academy quietly requires.
Polity · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Eric Schwitzgebel
Eric Schwitzgebel's book in the Cambridge Elements series argues that AI consciousness in the near future is neither obviously impossible nor obviously inevitable. Its central thesis: the moment we are forced to decide will arrive long before the moment we could know.
Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street ask whether AI systems could count as 'welfare subjects' should they one day possess consciousness, a capacity for agency and social relations. From the Cambridge Elements in Philosophy and AI series.
Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Jill Lepore treats artificial intelligence not as a technology but as a political force transforming the idea of the state and of democracy. The book's key term is mystification: power is sustained by the claim that machines know what people cannot.
W. W. Norton · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Carissa Véliz of Oxford follows prediction from the oracles of ancient Greece to the algorithm. The central claim: the real promise of prediction is not knowing the future but holding power over other people. Predictions about people tend to fulfil themselves.
Doubleday · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Michael Pollan's tenth book asks after consciousness from scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic perspectives at once. A narrative of discovery running from researchers looking for the first spark of consciousness in plants to scientists trying to engineer emotion into artificial intelligence.
Penguin Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Agnes Callard argues that Socrates should be read as an intellectualist rather than a sceptic: we do not know how to ask ourselves the most important questions, and we cannot learn to do it alone.
W. W. Norton · 2025 · English
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