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Philosophy

1. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

   Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

   “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellMore

2. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   St. Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund

   St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.More

3. Aristotle's Poetics

   Aristotle, James Hutton

4. Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

   Deborah J. Bennett

   "The best introduction to logic you will find."—Martin GardnerMore

5. The Consolation of Philosophy

   Boethius, Douglas C. Langston

   One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More

6. Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek

   Thorleif Boman

   "Builds on the premise that language and thought are inevitably and inextricably bound up with each other. . . . A classic study of the differences between Greek and Hebrew thought."—John E. Rexrine, Colgate UniversityMore

7. The Birth of a New Physics

   I. Bernard Cohen

   Revised and Updated

   The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still.More

8. The Task of Criticism: Essays on Philosophy, History, and Community

   Vincent Colapietro, Joseph P. Fell, Michael J. Mcgandy, Et Al.

   A new chapter in American thought devoted to the authority of critique and the defense of democracy.More

9. Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues

   J. A. Cover, Martin Curd

   Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues offers a balanced and comprehensive survey to the main currents in twentieth-century philosophy of science.More

10. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    Terrence W. Deacon

    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

11. The Marx-Engels Reader

    Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

    Second Edition

12. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

    Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams

    This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus’s writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.More

13. The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

    Anthony Gottlieb

    "His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell."—A. C. GraylingMore

14. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    Sam Harris

    Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."More

15. Readings for Logical Analysis

    Stephen R. C. Hicks, David Kelley

    Second Edition