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Book Synopsis A Little History of Philosophy by : Nigel Warburton
Download or read book A Little History of Philosophy written by Nigel Warburton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to the ideas of major Western philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, John Locke, and Karl Marx.
Book Synopsis Riddles of Existence by : Earl Brink Conee
Download or read book Riddles of Existence written by Earl Brink Conee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions of metaphysics are the deepest and most puzzling questions there are. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a child? What is it for one thing to cause another? Riddles of Existence is the first book ever to make metaphysics genuinely accessible and fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating it can be to think about them. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book: anyone who has thought about life's most profound questions will find plenty to provoke and entertain them here.
Book Synopsis Riddles of Existence by : Earl Conee
Download or read book Riddles of Existence written by Earl Conee and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating they can be to think about. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book. It is ideal for beginning students. Anyone wanting to think about life's most profound questions will find Riddles of Existence provocative and entertaining. This new edition is updated throughout, and features two extra, specially written chapters: one on metaphysical questions to do with morality, and the other on questions about the nature of metaphysics itself.
Book Synopsis Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics by : Earl Conee
Download or read book Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics written by Earl Conee and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions of metaphysics are among the deepest and most puzzling. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a child? Why is there something rather than nothing? Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating they can be to think about. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book: anyone wanting to think about life's most profound questions will find Riddles of Existence provocative and entertaining.
Book Synopsis The Auburn Prince by : Adam Zmarzlinski
Download or read book The Auburn Prince written by Adam Zmarzlinski and published by Monotreme Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the 'The Lamentation of Cin'Céline' Series. After Clementine Aurelius’ parents vanish–forcing her to live with her abusive Aunt Dahlia–a handkerchief given to her in the aftermath of that trauma isn’t just a nostalgic memento of the past, but a clue to an otherworldly conspiracy and a looming war. To learn the truth about her parents, the resilient thirteen-year-old must journey into Mundialis, a land where possessing color is a privilege, and with the aid of the cursed Fox Prince, talking beagle, and a magical gecko, must overcome her emotional solitude and defeat a neglect-born malevolence that infinitely whispers, “There is the you and the I, the known and the Other, and nothing else beside that.”
Download or read book Halo and Philosophy written by Luke Cuddy and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Doom series, First Person Shooter (FPS) videogames have ricocheted through the gaming community, often reaching outside that community to the wider public. While critics primarily lampoon FPSs for their aggressiveness and on-screen violence, gamers see something else. Halo is one of the greatest, most successful FPSs ever to grace the world of gaming. Although Halo is a FPS, it has a science-fiction storyline that draws from previous award-winning science fiction literature. It employs a game mechanic that limits the amount of weapons a player can carry to two, and a multiplayer element that has spawned websites like Red vs. Blue and games within the game created by players themselves. Halo’s unique and extraordinary features raise serious questions. Are campers really doing anything wrong? Does Halo’s music match the experience of the gamer? Would Plato have used Halo to train citizens to live an ethical life? What sort of Artificial Intelligence exists in Halo and how is it used? Can the player’s experience of war tell us anything about actual war? Is there meaning to Master Chief’s rough existence? How does it affect the player’s ego if she identifies too strongly with an aggressive character like Master Chief? Is Halo really science fiction? Can Halo be used for enlightenment-oriented thinking in the Buddhist sense? Does Halo's weapon limitation actually contribute to the depth of the gameplay? When we willingly play Halo only to die again and again, are we engaging in some sort of self-injurious behavior? What is expansive gameplay and how can it be informed by the philosophy of Michel Foucault? In what way does Halo’s post-apocalyptic paradigm force gamers to see themselves as agents of divine deliverance? What can Red vs. Blue teach us about personal identity? These questions are tackled by writers who are both Halo cognoscenti and active philosophers, with a foreword by renowned Halo fiction author Fred Van Lente and an afterword by leading games scholar and artist Roger Ngim.
Book Synopsis My Frumpy Reading Sweater by : P. Kevin Remington
Download or read book My Frumpy Reading Sweater written by P. Kevin Remington and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, I have told many stories around a campfire in Algonquin Park during our family camping trips. My kids each have their favourite stories that I have to tell over and over again. Friends who were also with us had their favourite stories they wanted me to tell. The problem was that I never did write down the stories in the thirty years of telling. My family finally convinced me to write down the stories. This is a collection of the some of the stories I told and one my daughter told. The time seemed right to share the stories with everyone. Since the stories put smiles on many of my friends' faces, I thought it would be good for others. Each story is the perfect length for a bedtime story. Read to your young children. My children are in their thirties, and still upon occasion I have to read for them. Now sit back, get comfortable, and let me get my frumpy reading sweater, and we will begin. Once upon a time...
Book Synopsis God, Freedom and Immortality by : Jonathan Harrison
Download or read book God, Freedom and Immortality written by Jonathan Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this text offers a comprehensive treatment of the Philosophy of Religion. Its overall conclusions are that, though there is no reason to suppose there is a God, doing something that is not quite believing in god, who, as some mystics think - neither exists nor does not exist, may be valuable for some people.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy by : Peter A. French
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The authors of the 27 appears in Volume 8, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,have established reputations as historians of philosophy, but their vantage point, here, is from "contemporary perspectives" - they use contemporary analytic skills to examine problems and issues considered by past philosophers. The papers, arranged in historical order, fall into six groups: ancient philosophy (the Pythagoreans, Plato, and Aristotle); the seventeenth-century rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza); the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume); Kant; the nineteenth century (Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Mill); and, in conclusion, an essay on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and two broad, retrospective papers entitled "Old Analyses of the Physical World and new Philosophies of Language" and "Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics."
Book Synopsis Doctor Who and Philosophy by : Courtland Lewis
Download or read book Doctor Who and Philosophy written by Courtland Lewis and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers look at the deeper issues raised by the adventures of Doctor Who, the main character in the long-running science fiction TV series of the same name.
Book Synopsis Locke: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Patricia Sheridan
Download or read book Locke: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Patricia Sheridan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and coherent overview of Locke, ideal for second- or third-year undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his thought.
Book Synopsis The Self: a Very Short Introduction by : Marya Schechtman
Download or read book The Self: a Very Short Introduction written by Marya Schechtman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This VSI is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questions about the self as well as modern research to produce new perspectives on both academic questions about the self and the more immediate practical, everyday puzzles about the self that concern us all.
Book Synopsis Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology by : Kevin Vanhoozer
Download or read book Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology written by Kevin Vanhoozer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new opportunities in the dialogue between philosophy and theology, this interdisciplinary text addresses the contemporary reshaping of intellectual boundaries. Exploring human experience in a ’post-Christian’ era, the distinguished contributors bring to bear what have been traditionally seen as theological resources while drawing on contemporary developments in philosophy, both ’continental’ and ’analytic’. Set in the context of two complementary narratives - one philosophical concerning secularity, the other theological about the question of God - the authors point to ways of reconfiguring both traditional reason / faith oppositions and those between interpretation / text and language / experience. Contributors: David Brown, Philip Clayton, Chris Firestone, Grace Jantzen, Nicholas Lash, George Pattison, Dan Stiver, Charles Taylor, Kevin Vanhoozer, Graham Ward, Martin Warner.
Book Synopsis Structures of Agency by : Michael E. Bratman
Download or read book Structures of Agency written by Michael E. Bratman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong" forms of human agency--including forms of human agency that are the target of our talk about self-determination, self-government, and autonomy. These essays are unified and cohesive in theme, and will be of interest to philosophers in ethics and metaphysics.
Book Synopsis Thought Experiments by : Roy A. Sorensen
Download or read book Thought Experiments written by Roy A. Sorensen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyses a variety of thought experiments, and explores what they are, how they work, and what their positive and negative aspects are. It also sets the theory within an evolutionary framework of advances in experimental psychology.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics by : Robin Le Poidevin
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics written by Robin Le Poidevin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts: History of Metaphysics Ontology Metaphysics and Science. Each section features an introduction which places the range of essays in context, while an extensive glossary allows easy reference to key terms and definitions. The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is essential reading for students of philosophy and anyone interested in surveying the central topics and problems in metaphysics from causation to vagueness and from Plato and Aristotle to the present-day.
Book Synopsis Consciousness in Locke by : Shelley Weinberg
Download or read book Consciousness in Locke written by Shelley Weinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and moral agency. Central to her account is that perceptions of ideas are complex mental states wherein consciousness is a constituent. Such an interpretation answers charges of inconsistency in Locke's model of the mind and lends coherence to a puzzling aspect of Locke's theory of knowledge: how we know individual things (particular ideas, ourselves, and external objects) when knowledge is defined as the perception of an agreement, or relation, of ideas. In each case, consciousness helps to forge the relation, resulting in a structurally integrated account of our knowledge of particulars fully consistent with the general definition. This model also explains how we achieve the unity of consciousness with past and future selves necessary for Locke's accounts of moral responsibility and moral motivation. And with help from other of his metaphysical commitments, consciousness so interpreted allows Locke's theory of personal identity to resist well-known accusations of circularity, failure of transitivity, and insufficiency for his theological and moral concerns. Although virtually every Locke scholar writes on at least some of these topics, the model of consciousness set forth here provides for an analysis all of these issues as bound together by a common thread.
