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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Crossing: A transgender memoir

Dec 14, 2023

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Cato Institute)

Crossing: A Transgender Memoir

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

“I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The...

Alex Byrne. Trouble with gender

Dec 1, 2023

Alex Byrne (MIT)

Trouble with gender: Sex facts, gender fictions

Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the...

Slavoj Žižek. Freedom: A disease without cure

Nov 13, 2023

Slavoj Žižek (University of London, New York University, University of Ljubljana)

Freedom: A Disease Without Cure

We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.

The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think...

Bence Nanay. Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience

Oct 22, 2023

Bence Nanay (Antwerp)

Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience

Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of...

Clancy Martin. How not to kill yourself

Oct 6, 2023

Clancy Martin (University of Missouri in Kansas City; Ashoka University in Delhi, India)

How not to kill yourself: A portrait of the suicidal mind.

FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines...