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Faculty Bookshelf

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Steven Nadler. Why Read Maimonides Today? Cambridge University Press, 2026

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Steven Nadler. Spinoza, Atheist.

Princeton University Press, 2026

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Annette Zimmermann. Democratizing AI. Manchester University Press, 2026

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Farid Masrour (ed), Ori Beck (ed). The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays. Routledge, 2025

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Michael Titelbaum (ed), Joachim Horvath (ed), Steffen Koch (ed). Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Primer and Guide. Open Access through The PhilPapers Foundation, 2025

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Clinton Castro and Timothy Aylsworth. Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy. Palgrave MacMillian, 2024

cover of living ethics

Russ Shafer-Landau. Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings 3rd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2024

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Russ Shafer-Landau, John Bengson, Terence Cuneo. The Moral Universe. Oxford University Press, 2024

cover of Descartes the renewal of philosophy

Steven Nadler. Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy. The University of Chicago Press, 2023

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Russ Shafer-Landau. The Fundamentals of Ethics, 6th Edition. Oxford University Press, 2023

cover of the ethical life

Russ Shafer-Landau (ed). The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Theory. Oxford University Press, 2023

cover of ethics and existence

Jamie Goodrich (ed), Jeff McMahan (ed), Tim Campbell (ed), Ketan Ramakrishnan (ed). Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford University Press, 2022

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Paula Gottlieb. Aristotle’s Ethics: Nicomachean and Eudemian Themes. Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Steven Nadler. Spinoza: A Life, 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2022

cover of philosophical methodology

Russ Shafer-Landau, John Bengson, Terence Cuneo. Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory. Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Michael Titelbaum. Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology Vol 1. Oxford University Press, 2022

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Clinton Castro, Alan Rubel, Adam Pham. Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Jamie Goodrich (ed), Jeff McMahan (ed), Tim Campbell (ed), Ketan Ramakrishnan (ed). Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Paula Gottlieb. Aristotle on Thought and Feeling. Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves. Princeton University Press, 2021

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Steven Nadler. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die. Princeton University Press, 2020.

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Harry Brighouse, David Schmidtz. Debating Education: Is There A Role For Markets? Oxford University Press, 2019

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Elizabeth Brake (ed), Lucinda Ferguson (ed). Philosophical Foundations of Children’s and Family Law. Oxford University Press, 2018

cover of educational goods

Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift. Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making. The University of Chicago Press, 2018

cover of heretics!

Steven Nadler, Ben Nadler. Heretics!: The Wondrous (And Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy. Princeton University Press, 2017

cover of reason and responsbility

Russ Shafer-Landau, Joel Feinberg. Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2016

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Elizabeth Brake (ed). After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships. Oxford University Press, 2015

cover of family values

Harry Brighouse, Adam Swift. Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships. Princeton University Press, 2014

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Steven Nadler. The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes. Princeton University Press, 2013

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Michael Titelbaum. Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief. Oxford University Pres, 2014

cover of ethical theory

Russ Shafer-Landau(ed). Ethical Theory: An Anthology., 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

cover of the virtue of aristotle's ethics

Paula Gottlieb. The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011

cover of occasionalism

Steven Nadler. Occasionalism: Causation Among the Cartesians. Oxford University Press, 2011

cover of educational equality

Harry Brighouse, James Tooley, Kenneth Howe. Educational Equality (Key Debates in Educational Policy). Continuum, 2010

cover of measuring justice

Harry Brighouse (ed), Ingrid Robeyns (ed). Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities. Cambridge University Press, 2010

cover of political philosophy of cosmopolitanism

Harry Brighouse (ed), Gillian Brock (ed). The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism. Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Steven Nadler (ed), T.M. Rudavsky (ed). The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity Through The Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Steven Nadler. The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

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Harry Brighouse. On Education (Thinking in Action). Routledge, 2006

cover of spinoza's ethics and introduction

Steven Nadler. Spinoza’s Ethics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006

cover of foundations of ethics

Russ Shafer-Landau (ed), Terence Cuneo (ed). Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology. Blackwell’s, 2006.

cover of justice

Harry Brighouse. Justice. Polity, 2005

cover of From Naming to Saying

Martha Gibson. From Naming to Saying: The Unity of the Proposition. Blackwell’s, 2004.

cover of Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?

Russ Shafer-Landau. Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? Oxford University Press, 2003.

cover of school choice and social justice

Harry Brighouse. School Choice and Social Justice. Oxford University Press, 2003.

cover of moral realism: a defence

Russ Shafer-Landau. Moral Realism: A Defence. Oxford University Press, 2003

cover of moral relativism and reasons for action

Robert Streiffer. Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action. Routledge, 2003

cover of spinoza's heresy

Steven Nadler. Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind. Oxford University Press, 2001

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Steven Nadler. Malebranche & Ideas. Oxford University Press, 1992