The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to...
Date de sortie: 2008-04-03 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
كتاب سيغير طريقة تفكيرك وحكمك على الأشياء. يحتوي على مجموعة مقالات تتمحور غالبا عن تطوير الذات والبرمجة اللغوية العصبية وطرق التفكير والوعي والسلوك الإنساني.
Date de sortie: 2020-11-19 1,49 €
Les implications philosophiques et morales du déterminisme Depuis la célèbre fiction forgée par Laplace en 1814 dans ses Essai philosophique sur les probabilités – dite du démon de Laplace, abondamment commentée dans ce Matière première –, qui voit une intelligence infinie calculer selon certaines lois tous les états du monde, le déterminisme est un cadre central de la connaissance scientifique. Pourtant, de nombreux débats parcourent cette idée. Existe-t-il un seul paradigme d...
Date de sortie: 2018-03-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 19,99 €
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity, caus...
Date de sortie: 2004-09-02 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 11,99 €
This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned fortresses and trenches, fought over by shifting alliances". Truth is an essential sure-footed guide through the territory, from classical to modern times. It looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the moral and political...
Date de sortie: 2006-05-25 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, Locke offers many incidental - and highly influential - r...
Date de sortie: 2004-08-26 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 11,99 €
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his views on God, the Bible, and miracles, as well as for his uncompromising defense of free...
Date de sortie: 2020-09-22 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 15,99 €
Un ouvrage d'épistémologie historique. Épistémologie française, cela peut signifier deux choses. C’est d’une part une entité géographique (l’ensemble des épistémologues de langue et de culture française), d’autre part le nom d’une forme de pensée spécifique, qui affirme la solidarité de problèmes (allant de la théorie des fondements de la connaissance à la philosophie des sciences) que d’autres traditions tendent à dissocier. Les études rassemblées ici ont un doubl...
Date de sortie: 2018-03-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 17,99 €
How to live meaningfully in the face of the unknowable We human beings had no say in existing—we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified—but faith is not knowledge. In Ultimate Questions , acclaimed philosopher Bryan Magee provocatively argues that we have no way of fathoming our own natures or fi...
Date de sortie: 2016-03-01 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 11,99 €
TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius' John Banville, Guardian 'Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi' Tibor Fischer, Spectator Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosticism, science fiction, ancient sacrifice and the occult...
Date de sortie: 2015-03-05 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
L'histoire des sciences est-elle une histoire comme les autres ? Longtemps apanage exclusif des philosophes, elle était alors, au mieux, réduite à une reconstitution des avancées glorieuses de la science, au pire, à un catalogue des égarements de l'intelligence. Professeur à la Sorbonne et directeur à l'E.H.E.S.S. (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), en même temps qu'il assumait la responsabilité du Centre international de synthèse et du Centre Koyré, Jacques Roger (1920...
Date de sortie: 2014-10-01 16,99 €
Friedrich Nietzsche (Born: 15 October 1844 – Died: 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resi...
Date de sortie: 2020-10-06 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 0,49 €
Plutarque (en grec ancien Ploútarkhos), né à Chéronée en Béotie vers 46 et mort vers 125, est un philosophe, biographe, moraliste et penseur majeur de la Rome antique. Grec d'origine, il est considéré comme un médio-platoniste, il s'opposa dans certaines de ses Oeuvres morales ou Moralia aux courants stoïcien et épicurien.
Date de sortie: 2019-10-24 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 4,99 €
De la philosophie des sciences Le matérialisme est une position philosophique au destin paradoxal : c’est la conception d’arrière-plan de toutes les sciences abouties – il semble même aller de soi ou n’avoir besoin que de se révéler qu’en filigrane –, tout en étant dans le même temps dénigré, malmené, incompris par nombre de nos contemporains. Même dans le pays de Diderot, d’Holbach, La Mettrie… Entre indifférence et péjoration, ce terme, que certains évacuent pudiq...
Date de sortie: 2018-03-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 22,99 €
Une application des connaissances scientifiques à la morale humaine Depuis Les Fondements naturels de l’éthique, datant de 1993 et dirigé par Jean-Pierre Changeux, aucun ouvrage collectif publié en France n’a présenté les travaux interdisciplinaires qui ont pour but, depuis plusieurs décennies, d’appliquer les connaissances scientifiques à la morale humaine. Pourtant, ces travaux sont très nombreux et touchent à plusieurs domaines : biologie évolutionniste, sciences cognitives, ...
Date de sortie: 2018-03-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 16,99 €
De la philosophie des sciences Le matérialisme est une position philosophique au destin paradoxal : c’est la conception d’arrière-plan de toutes les sciences abouties – il semble même aller de soi ou n’avoir besoin que de se révéler qu’en filigrane –, tout en étant dans le même temps dénigré, malmené, incompris par nombre de nos contemporains. Même dans le pays de Diderot, d’Holbach, La Mettrie… Entre indifférence et péjoration, ce terme, que certains évacuent pudiq...
Date de sortie: 2018-03-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 17,99 €
Een kritische historicus van de wijsbegeerte kan twee wegen bewandelen. In het eerste geval rafelt hij weer uiteen wat anderen hebben gereconstrueerd en herleest hij de oorspronkelijke teksten met onbevangen blik. In het tweede geval tracht hij uit te maken wat de filosofie van blijvende waarde heeft opgeleverd. De auteur van dit werk doet beide. Hij besteedt daarbij aandacht aan onderwerpen die in bestaande overzichten dikwijls stiefmoederlijk worden behandeld. Zo vindt men in dit deel niet all...
Date de sortie: 2018-02-22 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 14,99 €
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned. Today, the book remains a must-read and stands as a classic of twentieth-century ...
Date de sortie: 2008-12-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 19,99 €
'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS 'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph 'A joy to read' Economist The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason , Anthony Gottli...
Date de sortie: 2016-08-30 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
《论灵魂》是古希腊哲学家亚里士多德论述认识论、心理学方面的主要著作。在古希腊,认识论还未成为 独立的专门领域,它的许多问题同心理学混在一起,统属于灵魂学说的范围。亚里士多德把《论灵魂》列入了他的 第二哲学范畴。《论灵 魂》探究了生命之“灵魂”本源这一问题,反映了亚里士多德的思想和逻辑推理、论证和分析的思维。
Date de sortie: 2012-11-23 4,49 €
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the structure of r...
Date de sortie: 2015-12-22 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 25,99 €
In the third in a new series of short, provoking books of original philosophy, acclaimed thinker Barry Dainton takes us through the nature of Self When you think 'What am I?', what's actually doing the thinking? Is it a soul, or some other kind of mental entity separate from your body, or are 'you' just a collection of nerve-endings and narratives? In the third in a new series of short, provoking books of original philosophy, acclaimed thinker Barry Dainton takes us through the nature of Self an...
Date de sortie: 2014-04-24 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. Such ideas went on to have both trivial and terrible effects: from a sweeping craze of séances to the mass-murders of the Stalinist terror. Gray raises vital questions about the 'truths' sc...
Date de sortie: 2011-10-27 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
Whatever benefits and rewards it may sometimes be possible to attain by bullshitting, by dissembling, or by sheer mendacity, societies cannot afford to tolerate anyone or anything that fosters a slovenly indifference to the distinction between true and false. In a world of spin, rhetoric, blagging and bullshitting, a basic level of scepticism and the impulse to question first impressions is widely considered a virtue. Yet the very purpose of such caution - the discernment of truth - has for some...
Date de sortie: 2010-05-25 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 9,49 €
If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, cle...
Date de sortie: 2001-04-26 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 10,99 €
“A book of great practical wisdom by authors who have profound insight into the intellectual dynamics governing contemporary life.” —Dallas Willard, author of Knowing Christ Today In In Praise of Doubt, two world-renowned social scientists, Peter L. Berger (The Homeless Mind, Questions of Faith) and Anton C. Zijderveld (The Abstract Society, On Clichés), map out how we can survive the political, moral, and religious challenges raised by the extreme poles of relativism and fundamentalism. ...
Date de sortie: 2009-08-04 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Philosophie 7,99 €