Philosophy in the American West explains what it means to think philosophically in, and from, "the West". The chapters explore the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them.

Josh Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Alvernia University, USA.

Gerard Kuperus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, USA.

Brian Treanor is Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

1. Introduction, Josh Hayes, Gerard Kuperus, Brian Treanor 2. Continental Philosophy Beyond "the" Continent, Brian Treanor 3. Prometheus' Gift of Fire and Technics: Contemplating the Meaning of Fire, Affect, and Californian Pyrophytes in the Pyrocene, Marjolein Oele 4. The West as Slaughterbench: Thinking without Revolutions in the American West, Christopher Lauer 5. The End(s) of the West: The Time of Apocalypse in the Westerns of Cormac McCarthy, Amanda Parris 6. The Trees of the West: Our Elders, Our Teachers, Andrew Jussaume 7. Thinking Wolves, Thomas Thorp 8. Robert Smith, Entropic Art, and the West, Shannon M. Mussett 9. "Westering" and "BreakingThrough": Zen Buddhism on Cannery Row, Gerard Kuperus 10. Life in Interregnum: Deleuze, Guattari, and Atleo, Russell Duvernoy 11. Monstrous Topologies: Edward Abbey, Reiner Schürmann, and the Fate of the American West, Josh Hayes 12. Turtle Island Anarchy, Jason Wirth