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A Defence of Nihilism (2020)
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Tartaglia, J., & Llanera, T. (2020). A Defence of Nihilism. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429277962

This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers and religious leaders to indicate a widespread cultural crisis of truth, meaning, or morals... Read More about A Defence of Nihilism.

Philosophy in a Technological World Gods and Titans (2020)
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Tartaglia, J. (2020). Philosophy in a Technological World Gods and Titans. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350070134

How should philosophy respond to this? James Tartaglia examines the place of philosophy in a world where our rapidly expanding technological powers make philosophical reflection more important than ever. Philosophy has come to seem like a specialist... Read More about Philosophy in a Technological World Gods and Titans.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (Ed. by J Tartaglia) (2018)
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Tartaglia, J. S. Leach, & J. Tartaglia (Eds.). The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (Ed. by J Tartaglia). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315385945

Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia (2017)
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Tartaglia, J. (2017). Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia

Compendium of articles first published in Journal of Philosophy of Life 7 (1), July 2017. (Open Access publication).

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers (2016)
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Leach, S., & Tartaglia, J. (Eds.). (2016). Consciousness and the Great Philosophers. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315678023

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a majo... Read More about Consciousness and the Great Philosophers.

Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers (2014)
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Rorty, R. (2014). S. Leach, & J. Tartaglia (Eds.), Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139626538

Philosophy in a meaningless life: a system of nihilism, consciousness and reality
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Tartaglia, J. (2015). Philosophy in a meaningless life: a system of nihilism, consciousness and reality

This book combines an account of the autonomy of philosophy with a new theory of consciousness. The account of philosophy is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. This question, it is argued, is neither obscure nor obsolete, but rather refle... Read More about Philosophy in a meaningless life: a system of nihilism, consciousness and reality.