Dec 14, 2023
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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 point
was who I...
Dec 1, 2023
Nov 13, 2023
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 we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter...
Oct 22, 2023
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 the most...
Oct 6, 2023
Clancy Martin
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 why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that...