Books

Animals Matter: The Case for a Kinder World

Cass Sunstein argues that extending legal protection to animals is not a radical proposal but a consistent application of moral convictions most people already hold. Using behavioural economics and social psychology, he explains how indifference to animal suffering persists, why support for animal law may cross a threshold soon, and how mistreated animals might be given political representation and a bill of rights against cruelty.

Princeton University Press · 2027 · English

Critical Theory in Revolt: How Angela Davis and the New Left Remade the Frankfurt School

Cecilia Sebastian rewrites the reception history of the Frankfurt School by reading it through the activists who used it rather than the academics who inherited it. Angela Davis and Hans-Juergen Krahl take the place usually given to Habermas. Drawing on new archival material, she argues that this generation of student organisers, not the second-generation theorists, kept critical theory a living practice of social critique.

Verso · 2027 · English

A Philosophy of Imposture: Digital Propaganda, Fake History, and the Crisis of Truth

Elad Magomedov treats imposture not as the negation of truth but as the simulation of phantasm, and builds an immanent ontology of the fake that distinguishes reality from its counterfeits without appeal to metaphysical absolutes. Reading Plato, Sartre, Baudrillard and Deleuze together, he applies the framework to authoritarian propaganda systems, fabricated histories and biographical fraud.

Routledge · 2027 · English

Phenomenology, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence

Susi Ferrarello's collection brings Husserlian phenomenology to bear on large language models, treating them as cultural artefacts that reshape cognition, communication and identity rather than as computational tools. Philosophers, cognitive scientists and AI ethicists ask how artificial cognition might be aligned with human values, how far machines can model unconscious processes, and what embodiment means for systems that have no body.

Routledge · 2027 · English

Philosophy in Classical India: An Introduction

Second edition of Jonardon Ganeri's 2001 introduction, first subtitled The Proper Work of Reason, which treats the classical Indian schools as a tradition of argument in logic, epistemology and the philosophy of language rather than a department of religious doctrine. Opens with the early Nyāya and the motive and method of rational inquiry and assumes no prior knowledge of the texts. Ganeri holds the Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professorship at the University of Toronto. Listed by booksellers for 14 September 2026 in paperback and hardback.

Routledge · 2026 · English

The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time

Rivka Weinberg of Scripps College distinguishes ultimate, cosmic and everyday meaning and argues that the first is structurally unattainable: a point is a valued end lying outside the activity it justifies, and nothing lies outside a whole life, which contains all of one's ends. Death, she holds, is overrated as a threat to meaning; time is both the medium in which everyday meaning is made and the force that erodes it. The closing chapters survey the usual consolations, report that most fail, and salvage from them a practical account of living with the erosion.

Oxford University Press · 2026 · English

The Interacting Mind: A Defense of Dualism in a Physical World

Alin Christoph Cucu defends interactive dualism against the objection that a nonphysical mind could not act on a physical body. He argues the standard complaints from physics, metaphysics and neuroscience rest on faulty premises, asks which causal theories can accommodate mental causation, weighs consciousness-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics, and claims that neuroscience leaves explanatory gaps in voluntary action that favour his position.

Routledge · 2026 · English

Frederick Douglass's American Founding: How the Nation's Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution

Dennis C. Rasmussen reconstructs the reversal in which Douglass, having denounced the Constitution as a cunningly devised and wicked compact, came by about 1849 to read it as a glorious liberty document requiring emancipation. Rasmussen argues the shift sharpened rather than softened Douglass's abolitionism: on the new reading America's betrayal of its founding was the greater indictment, and the founders' true heirs were abolitionists, not moderates.

Princeton University Press · 2026 · English

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering

Catherine Liu traces the route from shell shock to PTSD and on to the talk-show economy of confession, arguing that trauma has become an instrument of social domination rather than a description of injury. Her charge is that treating personal pain as political action produces paralysis, corrodes solidarity and leaves the structures that generate suffering untouched.

Verso · 2026 · English

Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures

Tea Lobo takes up the awkward fact that cities deplete resources and estrange their inhabitants from nature while also concentrating populations efficiently enough to cut per-capita consumption. She surveys urbanist and architectural models, including indigenous urbanisms, that treat the city as shared habitat, then examines the normative problems these raise for justice, for aesthetics, and for the point at which the two meet.

Routledge · 2026 · English

Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition

Marina Vishmidt denies that art institutions can serve as refuges from capitalist relations, and proposes instead that they be treated as sites of contestation. Galleries and museums are analysed as components of extraction; the practices she counts as resistant are those that work on infrastructure itself, through collective organising, institutional exit and divestment, rather than through abstract radicalism.

Verso · 2026 · English

Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Durand Folco and Jonathan Martineau set out twenty theses on the claim that a theory of algorithms requires a theory of capitalism. Algorithmic capital, on their account, is at once a mode of accumulation, a form of social power, a mediation between people and a relation to nature. The argument moves through extraction, labour, cryptocurrency, influencer economies, climate and predictive policing.

Verso · 2026 · English · Translated by David Broder

Process Philosophy and Technology: New Directions

Mark Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh argue that the philosophy of technology has been held back by an ontology of things. Their contributors substitute one of processes, taking change and becoming as primary and asking what technologies look like when described temporally rather than as artefacts. Simondon and Stiegler are the reference points; the applications run to digital systems, sustainability, politics and maintenance.

Routledge · 2026 · English

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art

Selected papers from the Philosophy of AI conference, edited by Vincent C. Muller, Leonard Dung, Guido Lohr and Aliya Rumana for the Synthese Library. Contributors take up machine agency, algorithmic bias and regulation alongside newer questions: whether large language models structure themselves around human experience, whether artificial systems can hold mental states, and whether creativity or consciousness can be attributed to them at all.

Springer · 2026 · English

Stupidity and Self-Absorption

In the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series, Spiegel treats stupidity as an existential condition rather than a cognitive deficit: a habitual resistance to reality rooted in self-absorption. The account moves from individual structures of interiority to propaganda, ideological entrenchment and late capitalism, drawing on Arendt, Gadamer, Heidegger and Murdoch.

Routledge · 2026 · English

Ohne Respekt: Eine soziale Krise

Byung-Chul Han

Ninety-four pages on the decay of respect, which Han holds has been displaced by attention and by public shaming. Neoliberal performance culture turns respect into status competition; respect itself requires a distance that digital publics abolish. The book closes with a politics of friendship founded on distance and mutual recognition. No English edition announced.

Matthes & Seitz Berlin · 2026 · German

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

Susan Neiman

Susan Neiman argues across seven chapters that the second Trump presidency follows from an erosion of values rather than from political and economic forces alone, and that refusing the word 'evil' has a political cost. Her targets include market fundamentalism, the elevation of power over law, and what she calls identitarian politics. British edition 6 October 2026.

W. W. Norton & Company · 2026 · English

Empathic Reason: Imagination, Morality, and the Minds of Others

Roelofs defends empathic rationalism, the view that morality is rationally required because failing to care about other people amounts to treating them as less real than oneself. Imagination, he argues, is how we understand other minds, which makes empathy part of rationality rather than its opposite. On this account the consistent egoist holds irrational beliefs.

Oxford University Press · 2026 · English

Human Creativity and Artificial Creation

An Element in Cambridge's Philosophy and AI series. Brainard sets out an account of what creativity requires, then argues that current artificial systems do not meet it, lacking the curiosity and agency the creative act involves. She grants that such systems produce valuable outputs, and offers four reasons for doing creative work oneself rather than outsourcing it.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

The Language That Remains: Time, History, Language

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on the entanglement of time, language and history in Western culture: chronology as a theological incursion into history, eschatology and the doctrine of the Antichrist, the Roman mundus as a threshold between past and present, and the distinction between chronos and kairos. Due 15 October 2026, 182 pages.

Polity · 2026 · English · Translated by Scott Kirkland

Speaking About God: A Dialogue with Simone Weil

Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han argues that the crisis of religion is a crisis of attention, of seeing and hearing, rather than of belief, and that constant information consumption has displaced the contemplative capacity on which any experience of transcendence depends. Written in dialogue with Simone Weil. Published 3 September 2026, 108 pages.

Polity · 2026 · English · Translated by Wieland Hoban

Democracy and Anarchy: Power in the Polis

Donatella Di Cesare traces democracy's emergence in ancient Greece and argues for its indissoluble link to anarchy, holding that democratic arrangements rest on no certain ground. She gives particular weight to the role of women in democracy's beginnings. Due 8 October 2026, 218 pages, translated by David Broder.

Polity · 2026 · English · Translated by David Broder

Hegel on the Authority of Reason: Speculative Cognition and the Analogies

Andrew Werner of the University of Houston addresses the worry that rational form is imposed on the world by us. He argues that most contemporary responses fail to meet the threat and that Hegel's does, offering new readings of Hegelian method and of the categories of substance and causality. Due 31 October 2026, 240 pages.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

Handbook of Trivalent Logics

Edited by Paul Egre and Lorenzo Rossi, a 664-page survey of logics that add a third value to True and False, a move traced to Jan Lukasiewicz and Charles Sanders Peirce. Early sections cover philosophical foundations; later ones treat proof systems and connections to modal, fuzzy, probabilistic and quantum logics. Due November 2026.

The MIT Press · 2026 · English

The Liar Paradox

Edited by Lorenzo Rossi of the University of Turin and due on 7 October 2026, this 300-page volume runs from elementary formulations of the liar to contemporary theories of truth, covering supervaluationist, paracomplete, paraconsistent and substructural approaches, related paradox families, and links to modality, vagueness, quantifiers and natural-language semantics.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

Why Is the World So Beautiful?: Our Minds in Search of Nature's Rhymes

Nicholas Humphrey argues that aesthetic response is a by-product of model-building: by searching for rhyming connections between things we construct the mental models that guide understanding. He further contends that the human response to natural beauty involves sensing an agent behind it. Due 6 October 2026, 224 pages.

The MIT Press · 2026 · English

The Senses: Perception and Experience

A. S. Barwich's Cambridge Element in Philosophy of Mind, online from 29 June and in print from 6 August 2026. It argues that philosophy of perception has been distorted by a visuo-centric model, and proposes a multi-modal, biologically grounded account drawing on smell, taste, touch and interoception, sensory augmentation and cross-cultural evidence.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

Mental Fictionalism

A Cambridge Element in Philosophy of Mind by Ted Parent, Adam Toon and Tamas Demeter, published on 24 August 2026. It sets out the view that mental states are useful fictions, presenting the prefix, pretence and affective versions of mental fictionalism in one volume, each written by a leading proponent.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

The Importance of Being Conscious

Fourteen essays edited by Geoffrey Lee and Adam Pautz on why conscious experience matters and in what ways. Contributors include David Chalmers, David Papineau, Elizabeth Harman, Uriah Kriegel, Gwen Bradford, Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne. The three parts address the moral significance of consciousness, its metaphysics, and its epistemic significance. 406 pages.

Oxford University Press · 2026 · English

Cicero: A Very Short Introduction

Yelena Baraz's 160-page introduction reads Cicero as a mediator: between theory and practice, philosophy and politics, Greek and Roman. It covers his career as orator, statesman, philosopher and poet in the last years of the Roman republic, and follows his reception from the early Church Fathers to the Enlightenment.

Oxford University Press (Very Short Introductions) · 2026 · English

Answering Scepticism: Understanding Understanding, Understanding Reason

Tyler Burge's 688-page book takes on the two classical forms of Cartesian scepticism: about the existence of the external world, and about knowledge of one's immediate surroundings. He answers each separately, one argument turning on understanding and the other on reason, and holds that meeting the sceptic without begging the question deepens what we know about epistemic support.

Oxford University Press · 2026 · English

A Philosophical History of the Concept

Twenty-two chapters, edited by Stephan Schmid of Hamburg and Hamid Taieb of the Humboldt University of Berlin, on what philosophers have taken a concept to be. The volume runs from ancient Greece through Chinese, Indian and Islamic thought to modern European philosophy and present-day conceptual engineering, tracing how concepts moved from tools of thought to components of reality.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

From a Realist Point of View

Twenty years of Brian Leiter's essays on legal realism, with substantial new material and a systematic introduction. Leiter argues that appellate decisions are explained by psychological, ideological and social factors rather than by legal rules, and that law is better studied by naturalistic and empirical means than by conceptual analysis. The collection ends with chapters on Marx and Foucault as political realists.

Oxford University Press (Oxford Legal Philosophy) · 2026 · English

A Death of One's Own: Reflections on Mortality

Terry Eagleton's literary-philosophical meditation on dying, ageing and the meaning a finite life can carry. Drawing on Marvell, Dylan Thomas and Beckett, it examines how western culture has thought about death, and connects Eagleton's long-standing interest in comedy to the literature of mortality. Reviewed in the Guardian on 3 September 2026.

Yale University Press · 2026 · English

Improving Character: Moral Virtues, Strategies, and Questions

Forty-five newly commissioned essays on moral virtue and whether character can be improved, edited by Robert J. Hartman. Four parts cover the basics of virtue, individual virtues from courage to hospitality, practical strategies such as habituation, friendship and role models, and harder questions including virtue signalling and moral luck. An appendix uses A Christmas Carol.

Wiley-Blackwell · 2026 · English

Consciousness and Inner Awareness

A collection of new essays on the Awareness Principle, the claim that every conscious mental state is one its subject is aware of. Edited by Davide Bordini, Arnaud Dewalque and Anna Giustina, it weighs higher-order against same-order accounts of inner awareness and treats the question as a field in its own right. Published 10 September 2026.

Cambridge University Press · 2026 · English

Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times

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

Profiling: How Predictive Algorithms Shape Identity and the Social Fabric

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

Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science

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

The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe

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)

The Time of Thinking: The Le Thor Seminars with Heidegger (1966 and 1968)

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

Signs from the Future

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

Kant Machine

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

Tempting Fate: A Philosophical Guide to Risk, Luck, and a Meaningful Life

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

The Republic of Love: Opera and Political Freedom

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

The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

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

Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue

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

Tracks in Chaos: Philosophical Orientation and Political Reflection

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

Horror Cinema and Philosophy

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

Kill All The Chickens: Grief and Memory on an Ozark Farm

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

AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview

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

Emerging Questions in AI Welfare

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

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

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

Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

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

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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

Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 3: Rational Freedom. Traces of the Discourse on Faith and Knowledge

Jürgen Habermas

The third volume of Habermas's genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking, running from Hume and Kant through Schleiermacher, Humboldt and Hegel to Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard and Peirce. Habermas treats Kant's practical self-legislation as one of the few major innovations in the history of philosophy, while arguing that Kant remained bound to a two-world doctrine.

Polity · 2025 · English · Translated by Ciaran Cronin

Zero Point

Slavoj Žižek

Essays on how to distinguish defeat from disaster, built around Lenin's 1922 image of the climber who descends in order to find another route up the mountain. The Middle East supplies the central case. The second half gathers previously unpublished writings on the author's interrupted 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair speech.

Bloomsbury · 2025 · English

The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence

Nineteen chapters in three parts, edited by the KU Leuven legal scholar Nathalie A. Smuha, treating the ethics and the law of artificial intelligence as one problem. Contributions cover responsibility gaps, fairness, data protection, tort liability, intellectual property and the EU AI Act, alongside education, media, healthcare, finance, labour and predictive policing. Published open access under a Creative Commons licence.

Cambridge University Press · 2025 · English

Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland and Bogna Konior, and distributed by MIT Press. Historians, media theorists, philosophers, artists and science-fiction writers examine China's engagement with artificial intelligence, from pre-Cultural Revolution cybernetics to Sinofuturist aesthetics, AI policy and Chinese philosophical traditions. Contributors include Reza Negarestani, Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia and Lawrence Lek.

Urbanomic · 2025 · English

The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

Jathan Sadowski sets the mechanic, who wants to understand a machine in order to repair it, against the Luddite, who asks whose machine it is and what it is for. Drawing on Marxist analysis, the book examines innovation, labour, data as capital and risk, and argues for knowing when a technology should be dismantled or repurposed. 296 pages.

University of California Press · 2025 · English

Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

Leif Weatherby argues that large language models should be read as cultural and semiotic machines rather than as failed simulations of cognition. His target is remainder humanism, the reflex of conceding the machine's output and insisting some human residue survives. He proposes instead a general poetics of computational form drawn from structuralist linguistics and rhetoric. Posthumanities 74.

University of Minnesota Press · 2025 · English

Reference and Beyond: Essays in Philosophy of Language

Four decades of Michael Devitt's papers on names, definite descriptions and demonstratives, gathered with new footnotes and postscripts. Devitt defends a causal theory of reference against descriptivism, holding that a term's reference is fixed by a causal link to the object perceived. His naturalism treats the philosophy of language as empirical inquiry rather than a priori analysis.

Oxford University Press · 2025 · English

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

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

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

Butler argues that 'gender ideology' functions as a phantasm for authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and trans-exclusionary feminists: a figure with no fixed content onto which anxieties about migration, the family and economic insecurity are loaded. The book examines how the panic circulates rather than proposing new gender theory. Paperback February 2025.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2024 · English

Against Progress

Slavoj Žižek

A short collection in the Zizek's Essays series arguing that to define progress is to lay claim to the future, and that every such definition licenses sacrifice in the present for a promised improvement. Ranges across neoliberal, populist and accelerationist versions of the idea, with examples drawn from cinema and economics.

Bloomsbury · 2024 · English

The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence

Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan assemble private lawyers and computer scientists to ask whether existing private law can absorb artificial intelligence and where reform is needed. Chapters cover contract, tort, agency and property, including Daniel Seng and Tan Cheng Han on agency law and AI, and a chapter on property, personhood and the future of machines.

Cambridge University Press · 2024 · English

All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life

David Bentley Hart's case against mechanistic materialism, written as a dialogue conducted over six days among Psyche, Hephaestus, Eros and Hermes. Hephaestus argues the mechanist position; the others draw on neo-Platonism, Hindu thought and contemporary philosophy to argue that consciousness is ontologically prior to matter. 528 pages; paperback issued in 2025.

Yale University Press · 2024 · English

The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

James Boyle, a legal scholar at Duke, sets the question of machine personhood beside the historical record of how corporations, slaves and animals have been admitted to or excluded from legal personality. His argument is that the line has always been drawn by courts and legislatures under pressure rather than by metaphysics. Published open access.

The MIT Press · 2024 · English

AI Morality

Twenty short essays edited by David Edmonds of the Uehiro Institute, written without technical jargon, on the moral problems artificial intelligence creates. Sections cover defence and law, politics and governance, work and leisure, manipulation and autonomy, and identity and values. Contributors include Linda Eggert, Daniel Susskind, Carissa Veliz, John Tasioulas, Peter Millican and Ruth Chang.

Oxford University Press · 2024 · English

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II: Values and Governance

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The companion volume to Mind and Language, published the same day. Its chapters turn from mind to value and governance: machine transparency and apology, the moral status of robots, whether machines can act ethically, deepfake regulation, the cluster account of art, and the difference between legal rules and computational ones. Contributors include Burkhard Schafer, Paula Sweeney and Gianmarco Gori.

Anthem Press · 2024 · English

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The first of two collections edited by Brian Ball, Alice C. Helliwell and Alessandro Rossi of Northeastern University London. Nine chapters apply Wittgenstein's later philosophy to artificial intelligence, covering the Wittgenstein-Turing encounter, intentionality, psychological language, the private language argument and analogical reasoning. Contributors include Diane Proudfoot, Oskari Kuusela, Ian Ground and Ioannis Votsis.

Anthem Press · 2024 · English

From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Cameron J. Buckner argues that deep neural networks are best understood as implementations of a moderate empiricism. Reading machine learning against Aristotle, Ibn Sina, Locke, Hume, William James and Sophie de Grouchy, he treats the empiricist faculties of perception, memory, imagination, attention and empathy as engineering targets rather than historical curiosities. 438 pages.

Oxford University Press · 2023 · English

Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4

Les aveux de la chair

The fourth and final volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality, left complete at his death in 1984 and withheld from publication for over thirty years. Edited by Frédéric Gros, it appeared in French in 2018 and in Robert Hurley's English translation in 2021. Its subject is not modernity but the Church Fathers of the second to fifth centuries.

Penguin Classics · 2021 · English · Translated by Robert Hurley

Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

In the New Directions in Critical Theory series, Lara argues that moral concepts are built rather than recovered: narratives of atrocity provoke reflective judgement in Kant's sense, where no rule is given in advance, and the shared vocabulary follows from that public work of judging. A counterweight to accounts that seek to reclaim older moral terms.

Columbia University Press · 2007 · English