The Good Life and other Philosophical Essays on Human Nature
I believe my long essay, "The Good Life," and the companion essays contain important insights into understanding the difficulties in setting specific prescriptions and proscriptions for normative...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.<br/><br/><i>The Challenge...
View ArticleScientists' Expertise as Performance: Between State and Society, 1860-1960
The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management....
View ArticleHappiness: A Philosopher's Guide
<b>A huge bestseller </b>in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's <i>Happiness</i> is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have...
View ArticleAdventure Time and Philosophy
<I>Adventure Time and Philosophy</I> is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. The authors have come together to understand and explore one of the deepest and most thoughtful...
View ArticleBeyond Normality
Beyond Normality covers a broad range of subjects-everything from human behavior, to feminism and sex, to child rearing, to violence, to drugs and alcohol, to changes in society and the oppressions of...
View ArticlePlato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,...
View ArticleSteve Jobs and Philosophy
In <I>Steve Jobs and Philosophy</I> sixteen philosophers take a close look at the inspiring yet often baffling world of Steve Jobs. What can we learn about business ethics from the example...
View ArticleAnatomy of Spirituality: Portrait of the Soul
The domain of spirituality, separated from its theological overburden, believes in the existence of a spiritual self, presumed to be distinctly separate from the psychological self. The spiritual...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures
<p>Thirteen lectures by a celebrated American intellect elucidate the author's philosophical idealism and explore its historical framework. Includes readable discussions of works by Descartes,...
View ArticleLove and Living
<p><b>Thomas Merton</b> (1915-1968) is the most admired of all American Catholic writers. His journals have recently been published to wide acclaim.</p><p><i>Love...
View ArticleFive Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
<p><I>Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies</I> by Raymond Smullyan is a collection of paradoxes, dialogues, problems, and essays exploring philosophical ideas. This...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Heschel
<p>"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions... <p>Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be Human? Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses...
<p>In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant candor on our shared human...
View ArticleThe Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking
<p>From Descartes to designer babies, <i>The Philosophy Gym</i> poses questions about some of history's most important philosophical issues, ranging in difficulty from pretty easy to...
View ArticleKierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 8: Journals NB21-NB25
For over a century, the Danish thinker S?ren Kierkegaard (1813–55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more...
View ArticleMy Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature
Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart:...
View ArticleDungeons and Dragons and Philosophy: Raiding the Temple of Wisdom
This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is "the most exciting event in popular...
View ArticleJeopardy! and Philosophy: What is Knowledge in the Form of a Question?
Since its debut in 1964, Jeopardy! has been one of America's favorite and longest-running daytime quiz shows. It turns the question-answer format of traditional quiz shows on its head and requires...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen and Philosophy: Various Positions
From the early years, when he morphed from celebrated poet to provocative singer-songwriter, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen has endured as one of the most enigmatic...
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