This engaging volume explores and defends the claim that misanthropy is a justified attitude towards humankind in the light of how human beings both compare wit

This book argues that it can be both reasonable and appropriate to adopt a certain kind of misanthropy. The author defends a cognitivist version of misanthropy,

Taking the reader deep inside of the circus, the zoo, and similar operations, Fear of the Animal Planet provides a window into animal behavior: chimpanzees esca

"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--

About 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. Our ancestors shared the planet with at