Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, "Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self" sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the [...]

Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And, we would have to apply these beliefs in an all-or-nothing way. But, in "Ethics and t[...]