Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: very good
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: How to Think Ser.
How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these questions at one time or another, and, as Socrates famously said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living'. In showing how the great philosophers of human history reasoned and what ...Show more
Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature by Michel Foucault
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: very good
The "Consolations of Philosophy" is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life. It is the inspiration for the TV series "Philsophy: A Guide to Happiness. Alain de Botton, bestselling author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life", has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosoph ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transc ...Show more
The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace by don Miguel Ruiz; Janet Mills
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Toltec Wisdom Ser.
In The Voice of Knowledge, Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies -- mainly about ourselves. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, this breakthrough book shows us how to recover our faith in ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chap ...Show more
Life: a User's Manual - Philosophy for (almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini; Antonia Macaro
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about h ...Show more
Vox Populi - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!
Changing the Subject - Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book shows] that there is life in philosophy yet."--Times Literary Supplement "Exce ...Show more
Together by Luke Adam Hawker
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
A beautiful book to connect us after such a challenging time. 'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm brings huge and sudden change. We follow a man and his dog through the uncertainty that it b ...Show more
Power of Awareness by Neville
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Cornerstone Editions
Here is a signature volume of one of the most quietly influential and radical works ever written on the creative potentialities of human thought, THE POWER OF AWARENESS. In this book, author, Neville, presents a concise, unforgettable statement of his core philosophy: that the world around you is a pict ...Show more