Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to […]


Personal Identity and Fractured Selves

Personal Identity and Fractured Selves

Kant and Animals

Kant and Animals

Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism

Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

Practical Reflection

Practical Reflection

“What do you see when you look at your face in the mirror?” asks J. David Velleman in introducing his philosophical theory of action. He takes this simple act of […]


The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why […]


Self to Self: Selected Essays, Second Edition

Self to Self: Selected Essays, Second Edition

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the philosopher J. David Velleman. Although the essays were written independently, they are unified by an […]


Beyond Price, Essays on Birth and Death

Beyond Price, Essays on Birth and Death

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human […]


The Possibility of Practical Reason, Second Edition

The Possibility of Practical Reason, Second Edition

The Possibility of Practical Reason explores the foundational questions of moral psychology: How can any of our behavior qualify as acting for a reason? How can any considerations qualify as […]