The Xmas Files: The Philosophy of Christmas

Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? This book introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers since the era of the ancient Greeks.

Charts the relationship between the author, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his well-travelled wolf.

Can you believe someone who says 'I'm telling the truth now'? Can a robot be human? What's the best way to win a game of chicken? This book introduces some of life's most important questions with tales and tall stories, jokes and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions. It is suitable for those who puzzles about the world.

Features a beguiling question about everyday things. This book lets you find a friend or family member, and ask a 'Thunk', disagree with their answer.

The narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.

Examining the 'gift economy', this title argues defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society.

A companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten , it provides rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. It focuses on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.

A book of puzzles and paradoxes which introduces some of life's important questions with tales and tall stories, reasons and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions.

Explores the history of jokes, and discovers that most of those we trade are several years old. As well as containing jokes, this title also looks at how these jokes changed with time.

'The Great Philosophers' in one volume aimed at the general reader.