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On Bullshit

by Harry G Frankfurt Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
01/2005
ISBN:
9780691122946
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Hbk 80 pages

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes...

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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

by Peter Godfrey-Smith University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
07/2003
ISBN:
9780226300634
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Pb+ 288 pages

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding...

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Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

by edited by Gary B. Ferngren Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub Date:
08/2002
ISBN:
9780801870385
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Pbk 416 pages

Written by distinguished historians of science and religion, the thirty essays in this volume survey the relationship of Western...

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Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

by Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
01/1999
ISBN:
9780226773049
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Pb+ 456 pages

Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an "essential" human nature, determined...

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Logic: The Laws of Truth (ISE)

by Nicholas J J Smith Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
03/2012
ISBN:
9780691151632
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Hbk 576 pages

Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science, linguistics,...

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Human Condition 2ed

by Hannah Arendt University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
01/1998
ISBN:
9780226025988
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Pb+ 370 pages

In this text, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems are identified...

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Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

by Elizabeth Grosz Columbia University Press
Pub Date:
05/2008
ISBN:
9780231145183
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Hbk 136 pages

Instead of treating art as a uniquely human and cultural creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth...

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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

by Stephen Law Prometheus Books
Pub Date:
04/2011
ISBN:
9781616144111
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Pbk 260 pages

Wacky and ridiculous belief systems abound. Members of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven...

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State of Exception

by Giorgio Agamben University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
01/2005
ISBN:
9780226009254
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Pb+ 104 pages

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized...

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Parallax View

by Slavoj Zizek The MIT Press
Pub Date:
04/2009
ISBN:
9780262512688
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Pb+ 448 pages

The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his...

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Politics of Truth 2ed

by Michael Foucault Semiotext(e)
Pub Date:
06/2007
ISBN:
9781584350392
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Pbk 200 pages

In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel...

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Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord Zone Books
Pub Date:
11/1995
ISBN:
9780942299793
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Pb+ 154 pages

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From...

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Philosophy of Science: Science and Objectivity

by George Couvalis Sage Publications Ltd
Pub Date:
04/1997
ISBN:
9780761951018
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Pb+ 224 pages

This comprehensive textbook provides a clear nontechnical introduction to the philosophy of science. Through asking whether science...

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Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

by B Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
Pub Date:
02/2009
ISBN:
9780231147309
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Hbk 264 pages

Our best-selling mind and consciousness scholar brings the world into focus through the methods of empirical study and meditative...

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Disclosing Spaces: On Painting, A Philosophical Monograph on Painting

by Andrew Benjamin Clinamen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
09/2004
ISBN:
9781903083284
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Pbk 116 pages

In recent decades the proliferation of art practices has left behind the critical frameworks needed to understand and appraise...

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