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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 115,00 kr
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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 5,00 kr
Epictetus All works in one Book 1. The Discourses 2. The Enchiridion 3. The Golden Sayings
Releasedatum: 2020-09-25 Genre:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 5,00 kr
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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 125,00 kr
'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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 115,00 kr
'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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 115,00 kr
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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 129,00 kr
“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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 89,00 kr
'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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 69,00 kr
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:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 199,00 kr
The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with various other semantical methods used in traditional philosophy or by contemporary authors. These othe...
Releasedatum: 2011-03-23 Genre:Faktaböcker > Filosofi 95,00 kr