A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, and more effective' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines fo...
Releasedatum: 2021-09-28 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 9,49
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...
Releasedatum: 2020-10-06 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 0,49
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...
Releasedatum: 2010-05-25 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 9,49
'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...
Releasedatum: 2016-08-30 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 9,49
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: Wh...
Releasedatum: 2015-02-17 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 11,99
Met het overlijden van Etienne Vermeersch is een hele bibliotheek aan kennis en wijsheid teloorgegaan. Zijn geheugen was indrukwekkend. Hij kon bijvoorbeeld foutloos lange fragmenten uit de Ilias van Homerus, de Divina Commedia van Dante of de cantates van Bach voordragen. Hij was net zo goed vertrouwd met wiskundige inzichten, van de gulden snede over de Fibonaccigetallen en de identiteit van Euler, tot de relativiteitstheorie en de wetten van de thermodynamica. Hij had een grondige kennis van ...
Releasedatum: 2019-11-05 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 14,99
Plato All works in one Book Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Cratylus. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman. Parmenides. Philebus. Symposium. Phaedrus. Alcibiades. Second Alcibiades. Hipparchus. Rival Lovers. Theages. Charmides. Laches. Lysis. Euthydemus. Protagoras. Gorgias. Meno. Greater Hippias. Lesser Hippias. Ion. Menexenus. Clitophon. Republic. Timaeus. Critias. Minos. Laws. Epinomis. Letters. Definitions. On Justice. On Virtue. Demodocus. Sisyphus. Halcyon. Eryxias. Axiochus. Epigrams.
Releasedatum: 2020-09-14 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 0,49
If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point, and assuming no previous knowledge of logic, Wilfrid Hodges takes the reader through the whole gamut of logical expressions in a simple and lively way. Readers who are more mathematically adventurous will find optional sections introducing rather more challenging material. 'A lively and stimulating book' Philosophy
Releasedatum: 2001-11-29 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 9,49
“Remarkable.”— Wall Street Journal A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions. “A wonderful book.”—Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex . About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socra...
Releasedatum: 2021-10-05 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 10,99
Aristotle: All work in one Book 1. The Athenian Constitution 2. Categories 3. On Dreams 4. On the Gait of Animals 5. On Generation and Corruption 6. On the Heavens 7. The History of Animals 8. On Interpretation 9. On Longevity and Shortness of Life 10. On Memory and Reminiscence 11. Metaphysics 12. Meteorology 13. On the Motion of Animals 14. Nicomachean Ethics 15. On the Parts of Animals 16. Physics 17. Poetics 18. Politics 19. Posterior Analytics 20. Prior Analytics 21. On Prophesying b...
Releasedatum: 2020-09-19 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 0,49
'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker _________________________ In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the new neurosciences of mi...
Releasedatum: 2021-05-06 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 9,49
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisdom on how to face life's adversities and live well in the world. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who ...
Releasedatum: 2020-09-24 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 5,49
Your complete introduction to logic When you see black clouds looming and predict it's going to rain, you're using logic. When you decide that all swans are white because all the swans you've seen are white, that's logic too (even though the conclusion is false). As humans we want to understand how things are connected and why, so that we can derive things we don''t know yet from what we do. Logic studies the methods and principles to distinguish good and bad reasoning. This book introduces thre...
Releasedatum: 2017-01-12 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 3,99
Sowohl ein Philosophiebuch der Logik als auch ein Mathematikbuch der Logik, auf systematische Weise geordnet. Grundgesetze und Methoden der Logik finden nicht nur Anwendung in der Mathematik und Philosophie, sondern außerdem auch in vielen anderen Wissenschaften. Das Buch Grundgesetze und Methoden der Logik umfasst (1) begrifflich relevante Punkte (dazu gehören z. B. Aussagen, Begriffe, Definitionen, Urteile, Schlüsse), (2) axiomatisch relevante Punkte (dazu gehören z. B. Tautologien, notwen...
Releasedatum: 2021-01-06 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 19,99
Open this book and you will Learn what logic is Use truth tables and truth trees Make sense of complex arguments Use logic every day
Releasedatum: 2011-11-25 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 3,99
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...
Releasedatum: 2001-04-26 Genre:Non-fictie > Filosofie € 10,99