July 2, 2015

Sheldon Krimsky on What's at Stake in Our Use of Stem Cells

Read an excerpt from the epilogue to “Stem Cell Dialogues”

July 1, 2015

The President's Stem Cells — A Dialogue from the "Stem Cell Dialogues"

“You put your finger on one of the peculiarities of the bifurcated sys­tem of ethics in our country—one set of principles for public funding and another for private funding. Embryo ethics straddles two moral universes, and scientists have had to...

July 1, 2015

The New York Times on New York Books from Columbia University Press

Our books on New York City get some shout-outs from the New York Times!

June 30, 2015

Sheldon Krimsky on the Use of Dialogue in "Stem Cell Dialogues"

The following post is by Sheldon Krimsky, author of Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers In 1998 cell biology and medical research had entered a new stage of development. James Thomson of the University of...

June 30, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Postmodernism and Film

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

June 29, 2015

Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature

   We were very excited to read today’s New York Times included an article on our ambitious and very exciting new series of Russian literature in translation. The series, tentatively titled the Russian Library (on Twitter at @RusLibrary) will publish...

June 26, 2015

Same-Sex Marriage – Game Over?

Read a guest post by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey on the current state of the public and political debate over marriage equality, in light of today’s Supreme Court ruling.

June 26, 2015

Be Good and Enjoy

Read an excerpt from “Concluding Questions,” the final chapter of HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS, by Steven Cahn and Christine Vitrano.

June 25, 2015

Religion and Morality

Read two chapters, “God and Morality” and “Heaven and Hell,” excerpted from HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON LIVING WELL, by Steven Cahn and Christine Vitrano.

June 24, 2015

Robert Talisse's Foreword to "Happiness and Goodness"

Read Robert Talisse’s Foreword to HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON LIVING WELL, by Steven Cahn and Christine Vitrano.

June 23, 2015

Wasted Lives?

Read an excerpt from “Wasted Lives,” the second chapter of HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS, by Steven Cahn and Christine Vitrano.

June 23, 2015

New Book Tuesday

Our weekly listing of new titles includes new literary studies books from Ibidem Press