Once the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally liberated from its academic closet in 2010, when The New York Times launched The Stone. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of issues both timely and timeless, probing universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness, and morality, as well as contemporary issues such as gun control, global warming, and the gender divide. Now, over five years after the original publication of The Stone Reader-a collection of 133 essays from the series, divided into four categories: Philosophy, Science, Religion and Morals, and Society-editors Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley return with an updated paperback edition. Featuring a new preface contextualizing The Stone Reader for our novel era of protests and a pandemic, fake news and planned obsolescence, this volume is both an intellectual landmark and a confirmation that philosophy is, indeed, for everyone. Book jacket.