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Fast Philosophy

Author : Lukas N. P. Egger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781717825827
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Fast Philosophy written by Lukas N. P. Egger and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the wisdom, none of the work... Ridiculously entertaining, outrageously funny, and powerfully informative, Fast Philosophy is like speed-dating humanity's smartest people. Its 100 hilarious, short mental workouts take the greatest ideas of the past and apply them to the biggest challenges of today. Using simple language, humour, and more than fifty beautiful illustrations, it will make you think, laugh, and question everything. A comprehensive and irreverent introduction to a fascinating subject, Fast Philosophy offers original answers to the biggest questions of existence: Why are we here? (and why isn't there more cake?) What does it mean to be good? (and how can we get away with not being it?) What is beauty? (and how can I convince it to take its clothes off?). You'll learn whether Socrates would have been a good agony aunt, why Heidegger said we should spend more time in cemeteries, how a stoic would pick up someone at a party, whether Facebook friends are real friends, and what Marvel superhero Nietzsche would have been. Let philosopher Lukas N.P. Egger and three-time Spiegel best-selling author Adam Fletcher teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the good life. Who knew enlightenment could be this entertaining? Absolutely genuine, advanced praise for Fast Philosophy: "Unquestionably brilliant!" - Socrates "If you want to think, therefore, you should buy this book." - R. Descartes "It's strange how simple things become, once you see them clearly read Fast Philosophy." - Ayn Randy. "Not bad, I guess, if you like that kind of thing." - Woman Eating a Wasabi Nut for the First Time.

The Making of a Confederate

Author : William L. Barney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886180
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Confederate written by William L. Barney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Making of a Confederate, William L. Barney focuses on the life of one man, Walter Lenoir of North Carolina, to examine the origins of southern white identity alongside its myriad ambiguities and complexities. Born into a wealthy slaveholding family, Lenoir abhorred the institution, opposed secession, and planned to leave his family to move to Minnesota, in the free North. But when the war erupted in 1860, Lenoir found another escape route--he joined the Confederate army, an experience that would radically transform his ideals. After the war, Lenoir, like many others, embraced the cult of the Lost Cause, refashioning his memory and beliefs in an attempt to make sense of the war, its causes, and its consequences. While some Southerners sank into depression, aligned with the victors, or fiercely opposed the new order, Lenoir withdrew to his acreage in the North Carolina mountains. There, he pursued his own vision of the South's future, one that called for greater self-sufficiency and a more efficient use of the land. For Lenoir and many fellow Confederates, the war never really ended. As he tells this compelling story, Barney offers new insights into the ways that (selective) memory informs history; through Lenoir's life, readers learn how individual choices can transform abstract historical processes into concrete actions.

Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow

Author : Hanno Sauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131546747X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow written by Hanno Sauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories understand moral thinking in terms of two separate domains: one deliberate and analytic, the other quick and instinctive. This book presents a new theory of the philosophy and cognitive science of moral judgment. Hanno Sauer develops and defends an account of "triple-process" moral psychology, arguing that moral thinking and reasoning are only insufficiently understood when described in terms of a quick but intuitive and a slow but rational type of cognition. This approach severely underestimates the importance and impact of dispositions to initiate and engage in critical thinking – the cognitive resource in charge of counteracting my-side bias, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, and breakdowns of self-control. Moral cognition is based, not on emotion and reason, but on an integrated network of intuitive, algorithmic and reflective thinking. Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

What is Philosophy?

Author : Gilles Deleuze
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916864
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book What is Philosophy? written by Gilles Deleuze and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation

Author : Pascale Willemsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350235814
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation written by Pascale Willemsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the connection between causation and responsibility? Is there a best way to theorize philosophically about causation? Which factors determine and influence what we judge to be the cause of something? Bringing together interdisciplinary research from experimental philosophy, traditional philosophy and psychology, this collection showcases the most recent developments and approaches to questions about causation. Chapters discuss the diverse theoretical ramifications of empirical findings in experimental philosophy of causation, providing a comprehensive survey of key issues such as the perception and learning of causal relations, omission, normative considerations, mechanism, voluntariness and legal theories of causation. With novel contributions from both experts and rising stars, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation demonstrates the value of empirical work and opens new domains of inquiry at the cutting edge of the field.

Higher Psychical Development (Yoga Philosophy)

Author : Hereward Carrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Psychical Development (Yoga Philosophy) written by Hereward Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326973
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphilosophy is philosophy’s poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy doing philosophy to take time to stand back and consider reflectively how the project itself actually works. And they lead tend to produce texts without too much consideration of how this looks from the standpoint of the consumer. All this, it seems to be, affords good reason for attending to philosophical hermeneutics, reflecting on the issue of how philosophical texts are to be understood and interpreted.

Philosophy's Future

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119210100
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy's Future written by Russell Blackford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution. Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives Features contributions from distinguished philosophers such as Frank Jackson, Karen Green, Timothy Williamson, Jessica Wilson, and many others Explores the ways philosophical investigations of logic, world, mind, and moral responsibility continue to shape the empirical and theoretical sciences Considers the role of contemporary philosophy in political issues such as women’s rights, the discrimination of minorities, and public health

Peripatetic Philosophy in Context

Author : Francesco Verde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110772795
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Peripatetic Philosophy in Context written by Francesco Verde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with some Aristotelian philosophers of the Hellenistic Age, ranging from Theophrastus of Eresus to Cratippus of Pergamum. The problem of knowledge, the question of time, and the doctrine of the soul are investigated by comparing these Peripatetics’ views with Aristotle’s philosophy, and above all by setting their doctrines within the broader framework of post-Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophies (the Old Academy, Epicureanism, and Stoicism).

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198610130
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy written by Simon Blackburn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and authoritative, this dictionary provides wide-ranging and lively coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy.

Slow Philosophy

Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474279910
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Slow Philosophy written by Michelle Boulous Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to take our time and to engage with the world. At its best, philosophy teaches us to read slowly; in fact, philosophy is the art of reading slowly – and this inevitably clashes with many of our current institutional practices and demands. Slow reading shares something in common with contemporary social movements, such as that devoted to slow food; it offers us ways to engage the complexity of the world. With the help of writers as diverse as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Woolf, Adorno, Levinas, Critchley, Beauvoir, Le Dœuff, Irigaray, Cixous, Weil, and others, Boulous Walker offers a foundational text in the emerging field of slow philosophy, one that explores the importance of unhurried time in establishing our institutional encounters with complex and demanding works.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Author : Scott Hershovitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881825
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Nasty, Brutish, and Short written by Scott Hershovitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May “This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like ‘What do we have the right to do? When is it okay to do this or that?’ They explore punishment and authority and sex and gender and race and the nature of truth and knowledge and the existence of God and the meaning of life and Scott just does an incredible job.” —Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Some of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places—preschools and playgrounds. They debate questions about metaphysics and morality, even though they’ve never heard the words and perhaps can’t even tie their shoes. They’re kids. And as Scott Hershovitz shows in this delightful debut, they’re astoundingly good philosophers. Hershovitz has two young sons, Rex and Hank. From the time they could talk, he noticed that they raised philosophical questions and were determined to answer them. They re-created ancient arguments. And they advanced entirely new ones. That’s not unusual, Hershovitz says. Every kid is a philosopher. Following an agenda set by Rex and Hank, Hershovitz takes us on a fun romp through classic and contemporary philosophy, powered by questions like, Does Hank have the right to drink soda? When is it okay to swear? and, Does the number six exist? Hershovitz and his boys take on more weighty issues too. They explore punishment, authority, sex, gender, race, the nature of truth and knowledge, and the existence of God. Along the way, they get help from professional philosophers, famous and obscure. And they show that all of us have a lot to learn from listening to kids—and thinking with them. Hershovitz calls on us to support kids in their philosophical adventures. But more than that, he challenges us to join them so that we can become better, more discerning thinkers and recapture some of the wonder kids have at the world.

The Philosophy of Spike Lee

Author : Mark Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813133815
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Spike Lee written by Mark Conard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over his twenty-plus year tenure in Hollywood, Spike Lee has produced a number of controversial films that unapologetically confront sensitive social issues, particularly those of race relations and discrimination. Through his honest portrayals of life’s social obstacles, he challenges the public to reflect on the world’s problems and divisions. The innovative director created a name for himself with feature films such as Do the Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992), and with documentaries such as 4 Little Girls (1997) and When the Levees Broke (2006), breaking with Hollywood’s reliance on cultural stereotypes to portray African Americans in a more realistic light. The director continues to produce poignant films that address some of modern society’s most important historical movements and events. In The Philosophy of Spike Lee, editor Mark T. Conard and an impressive list of contributors delve into the rich philosophy behind this filmmaker’s extensive work. Not only do they analyze the major themes of race and discrimination that permeate Lee’s productions, but also examine other philosophical ideas that are found in his films, ideas such as the nature of time, transcendence, moral motivation, self-constitution, and justice. The authors specialize in a variety of academic disciplines that range from African American Studies to literary and cultural criticism and Philosophy.

The A Priori in Philosophy

Author : Albert Casullo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199695334
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The A Priori in Philosophy written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries philosophers have attached much importance to a priori knowledge, but recent work in epistemology and experimental philosophy has questioned this. Leading philosophers discuss explanations of the a priori, challenges to its existence, the status of intuition, and the justification of belief—topics at the centre of current debate.

Philosophy at 3:AM

Author : Richard Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969558
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy at 3:AM written by Richard Marshall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appeal of philosophy has always been its willingness to speak to those pressing questions that haunt us as we make our way through life. What is truth? Could we think without language? Is materialism everything? But in recent years, philosophy has been largely absent from mainstream cultural commentary. Many have come to believe that the field is excessively technical and inward-looking and that it has little to offer outsiders. The 25 interviews collected in this volume, all taken from a series of online interviews with leading philosophers published by the cultural magazine 3ammagazine.com, were carried out with the aim of confronting widespread ignorance about contemporary philosophy. Interviewer Richard Marshall's informed and enthusiastic questions help his subjects explain the meaning of their work in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. Contemporary philosophical issues are presented through engaging but serious dialogues that, taken together, offer a glimpse into key debates across the discipline. Alongside metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, political philosophy and ethics, discussed here are feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, pragmatism, philosophy of religion, experimental philosophy, bioethics, animal rights, and legal philosophy. Connections between philosophy and fields such as psychology, cognitive science, and theology are likewise examined. Marshall interviews philosophers both established and up-and coming. Engaging, thoughtful and thought-provoking, inviting anyone with a hunger for philosophical questions and answers to join in, Philosophy at 3:AM shows that contemporary philosophy can be relevant -- and even fun.

Making Learning Whole

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470633719
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Making Learning Whole written by David Perkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game" David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners). Vividly explains how to organize learning in ways that allow people to do important things with what they know Offers guidelines for transforming education to prepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world Filled with real-world, illustrative examples of the seven principles At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas.

Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197610331
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher written by Gareth Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"--