Thinking Like a Philosopher: How to Reason Clearly, Question Assumptions, Evaluate Arguments, and Think for Yourself Using Thought Experiments and Logic

Diogenes The Cynic: A Beginner's Guide to the Provocative Philosophy of Living According to Nature, Rejecting Social Conventions, and the Practice of Shameless Virtue

Averroes: A Beginner's Guide to the Great Islamic Philosopher and His Harmonization of Aristotelian Philosophy with Islamic Theology, Including His Defense of Reason

Epistemology: The Philosophy of Knowledge, Including the Gettier Problem, the Challenge of Skepticism, the Foundations of Justification, and the Question of What We Can Really Know

What Is Justice?: Philosophy's Quest to Understand Fairness, Rights, and the Good Society, from Plato's Republic Through the Social Contract to Rawls and the Global Present

Martin Heidegger: The Philosopher of Being and His Revolutionary Investigation into Existence, Time, and the Forgotten Question at the Heart of Western Thought

What Is Consciousness?: Philosophy's Deepest Inquiry into the Mind, from Ancient Meditations on the Self Through Descartes and Phenomenology to the Hard Problem and AI

Logic: The Philosophy of Reasoning, Including Validity, Paradox, and the Foundations of Rational Thought, from Aristotle's Syllogism to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

The First Question: What Philosophy Is, How It Works, and Why the Questions It Asks About Existence, Knowledge, Morality, and Meaning Are the Most Important Questions Human Beings Have Ever Posed

Cynicism: A Beginner's Guide to the Radical Philosophy of Living According to Nature, Rejecting Convention, and the Shameless Pursuit of Virtue from Diogenes to Crates

Critical Theory: A Beginner's Guide to the Frankfurt School and Its Critique of Modern Society, Including the Culture Industry, the Authoritarian Personality, and Communicative Reason

Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art, Beauty, and the Sublime, Including the Nature of Taste, the Meaning of Artistic Truth, and the Question of Whether Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Montesquieu: The Philosopher of Liberty and His Theory of the Separation of Powers, the Spirit of Laws, and the Art of Constitutional Government That Shaped the Modern World

Does God Exist?: Philosophy's Most Consequential Question, from the Classical Arguments and the Problem of Evil Through the Death of God to Faith, Reason, and Human Understanding

Humanism: The Philosophy of Human Dignity, Reason, and Flourishing, from Protagoras and Cicero Through the Renaissance to the Modern Secular Vision of a Life Without Gods but Not Without Meaning

What Is the Meaning of Life?: Philosophy's Inquiry into Purpose, Value, and the Good Life, from Aristotle and the Stoics Through Existentialism to the Path Beyond Suffering

Philosophy for the Living: How the Great Thinkers Illuminate the Questions We Actually Face, from Friendship and Death to Work, Love, Happiness, and Living Well

Simone Weil: The Mystical Philosopher and Her Profound Reflections on Suffering, Attention, and the Need for Roots in an Age of Uprootedness