Open Court: 208 books
The Tea Party Explained
From Crisis to Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Tea Party showed its strength in the 2010 mid-terms. Despite the opposition of leading Republicans like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lindsey Graham, 140 Tea Party candidates ran for Congress. Of the sixty House seats which moved from Democratic to Republican control, twenty-eight were won by Tea...
by Nicholas Smaligo
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events. The book is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. It debunks a number of myths and misunderstandings that have become...
by Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Politicians and the media tell us that people who take drugs, including alcohol or nicotine, cannot help themselves. They are supposedly victims of the disease of 'addiciton', and they need 'treatment'. The same goes for sex addicts, shopping addicts, food addicts, gambling addicts, or even addicts...
The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy
I Link Therefore I Am
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
With both young and adult gamers as loyal fans, The Legend of Zelda is one of the most beloved video game series ever created. The contributors to this volume consider the following questions and more: What is the nature of the gamer’s connection to Link? Does Link have a will, or do gamers project...
Szasz Under Fire
A Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Since he published The Myth of Mental Illness in 1961, professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz has been the scourge of the psychiatric establishment. In dozens of books and articles, he has argued passionately and knowledgeably against compulsory commitment of the mentally ill, against the war on drugs,...
Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard
Conversations on Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
During the academic year 1940-1941, several giants of analytic philosophy congregated at Harvard: Bertrand Russell, Alfred Tarski, Rudlof Carnap, W. V. Quine, Carl Hempel, and Nelson Goodman were all in residence. This group held regular private meetings, with Carnap, Tarski, and Quine being the most...
The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy
Subversive Reports from Another Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an “alternate present” (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern US occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small “neutral...
Phenomenology Explained
From Experience to Insight
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, Logical Investigations, by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong...
The Green Halo
A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Green Halo is a highly readable introduction to the vast field of contemporary ecological thought. It is a basic education in environmental philosophy and a welcome propadeutic for understanding the most crucial problem facing humankind in the coming century: How can humans live on this earth so that they do not destroy the preconditions for their own existence?
The Myth of the Closed Mind
Understanding Why and How People Are Rational
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
It’s like talking to a brick wall” and We’ll have to agree to disagree” are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument.
It’s often claimed that some people-fundamentalists or fanatics-are indeed...
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
One Book to Rule Them All
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.
Analysis of the popular appeal of The...
Atheism Explained
From Folly to Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Atheism Explained explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate...
Worldly Wonder
Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
History illustrates the power of religion to bring about change. Mary Evelyn Tucker describes how world religions have begun to move from a focus on God-human and human-human relations to encompass human-earth relations. She argues that, in light of the environmental crisis, religion should move from...
The Red Sox and Philosophy
Green Monster Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This volume in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series delves into the tragic and redemptive history of the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise. Drawing on philosophers from Aristotle to Sartre, chapters range from issues of faith and spirituality to tragedy, irony, existentialism, Sabermetrics, and...