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The Duck That Won the Lottery : and 99 other bad arguments by Julian Baggini
Category: Culture
This companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be aroun ...Show more
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. J ...Show more
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving-or even discussing-divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired fac ...Show more
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Are you still the person who lived 15, 10 or five years ago? 15, 10 or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented a ...Show more
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much m ...Show more
The Ethics Toolkit by Julian Baggini; Peter S. Fosl
Category: Philosophy | Series: Wiley Desktop Editions Ser.
The Ethics Toolkit provides an accessible and engagingcompendium of concepts, theories, and strategies that encouragestudents and advanced readers to think critically about ethics sothat they can engage intelligently in ethical study, thought, anddebate. Written by the authors of the popular ThePhilo ...Show more
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Godless Gospel - Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosop ...Show more
The Great Guide - What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well (HB) by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's phil ...Show more
The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten by Julian Baggini
Category: Reference
A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain. 'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thought' - ...Show more
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini
Category: Science
And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and ...Show more