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An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not Wh... Read More about The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us--and always will be In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality... Read More about Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason

How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures--and what it reveals about philosophy today What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions--ones that might have been used to fill the positi... Read More about The Philosopher: A History in Six Types

People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the Ger... Read More about Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy

Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examina... Read More about Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life