Stephen Hetherington is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and former Editor-in-Chief of Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His recent books include What Is Epistemology? (Polity, 2019) and Defining Knowledge (Cambridge UP, 2022).
1. Extreme Philosophy: Some Exploratory Words
Stephen Hetherington
2. Monism and the Ontology of Logic
Samuel Z. Elgin
3. From Plotinus to Rorty: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Shamik Dasgupta
4. Spatiotemporal Projectivism
Kristie Miller
5. Nonsense + Unintelligibility = How to Understand Vagueness
Nicholas J.J. Smith
6. Science Is Irrational - and a Good Thing, Too
Michael Strevens
7. Knowing as Merely Being Correct
Stephen Hetherington
8. Is Philosophy Possible?
Neil Levy
9. Mind Unlimited?
Andy Clark
10. Disembodied Souls Are People, Too
Michael Huemer
11. Repetition and Value in an Infinite Universe
Eric Schwitzgebel
12. The Fatalist Is the Most Extreme Extremist
Roy A. Sorensen
13. A Defence of Extremism
David Coady
14. The (Ir)Rationality of Propaganda
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
15. Is Inclusion Good?
Holly Lawford-Smith
16. Corruption Empowers: Political Leadership and Moral Degeneracy
Crispin Sartwell
17. Power Inversion Democracy
Alexander Guerrero
18. Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes
Jason Brennan, Jessica Flanigan, and Christopher Freiman
19. Suicide, Organ Donation, and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections
Saul Smilansky
Philosophy's value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readers twenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or 'mad' ideas.