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The Enlightenment

The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

by Ritchie Robertson ...

A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the ... Read more

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A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the
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This Idea Must Die

Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

by John Brockman ...

Series Book 17 - Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a ... Read more

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The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a
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Logic: A Complete Introduction

A step-by-step Teach Yourself guide to use at home, school or college

by Siu-Fan Lee ...

'After a lifetime of dabbling in philosophy without tackling logic, I bought a couple of books on the subject and was soon totally lost. This book saved me.' - Amazon 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Unlike so many logic books, this one is easy to follow, step by step. Strongly recommended for beginners.' - Amazon 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When you see black clouds looming and predict it's going to rain, you're using ... Read more

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'After a lifetime of dabbling in philosophy without tackling logic, I bought a couple of books on the subject and was soon totally lost. This book saved me.' - Amazon 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Unlike so many logic books, this one is easy to follow, step by step. Strongly recommended for beginners.' - Amazon 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When you see black clouds looming and predict it's going to rain, you're using
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The Socratic Method

A Practitioner's Handbook

by Ward Farnsworth ...

**“Remarkable.”—Wall Street JournalA thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.**About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The ... Read more

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**“Remarkable.”—Wall Street JournalA thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.**About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The
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Irreducible Mind

Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson ...

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates_empirically_that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors ... Read more

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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates_empirically_that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors
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底層邏輯：看清這個世界的底牌

by 劉潤 ...

你真的相信眼睛所看到的一切嗎？事實是最不容易產生爭議的客觀存在嗎？或許，我們對事實的瞭解，還不夠全面。或許，我們是被表象或經驗欺騙、迷惑，導致看不透事情的本質。唯有透過「底層邏輯+環境變數」，才能讓你在千變萬化的世界中，認清所有真相！當一個人持有的不是觀點而是立場時，你應該做的事情，是對他說「It’s good for you」（這對你有益）。反過來，我們也要時刻反省自己：我說的話、我的表述，是事實，是觀點，是立場，還是信仰？請運用以下幾點：1.拋棄經驗，不要輕易下結論，懷著空杯心態去看問題。2.運用「假設—驗證—結論—調整」，大膽假設，小心求證，得出結論，做出調整。3.不要被利益、立場左右，就事論事。能做到以上三點，再複雜、繁瑣的事，你也能抽絲剝繭、洞察本質。為什麼我們要懂「底層邏輯」？如果你是學生，透過底層邏輯能學會：思考問題的邏輯．... ... Read more

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你真的相信眼睛所看到的一切嗎？事實是最不容易產生爭議的客觀存在嗎？或許，我們對事實的瞭解，還不夠全面。或許，我們是被表象或經驗欺騙、迷惑，導致看不透事情的本質。唯有透過「底層邏輯+環境變數」，才能讓你在千變萬化的世界中，認清所有真相！當一個人持有的不是觀點而是立場時，你應該做的事情，是對他說「It’s good for you」（這對你有益）。反過來，我們也要時刻反省自己：我說的話、我的表述，是事實，是觀點，是立場，還是信仰？請運用以下幾點：1.拋棄經驗，不要輕易下結論，懷著空杯心態去看問題。2.運用「假設—驗證—結論—調整」，大膽假設，小心求證，得出結論，做出調整。3.不要被利益、立場左右，就事論事。能做到以上三點，再複雜、繁瑣的事，你也能抽絲剝繭、洞察本質。為什麼我們要懂「底層邏輯」？如果你是學生，透過底層邏輯能學會：思考問題的邏輯．...
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The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

How to Take Thinking Apart and What to Look for When You Do

by Linda Elder, Richard Paul ...

Series series Thinker's Guide Library
The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking explores the practice of analyzing problems and opportunities and provides a framework for finding common denominators, inconsistencies, biases, and underlying causes. It helps readers learn to think within the logic of subjects and professions. By offering proper tools for analysis and assessment of thought, it empowers readers to address any decision with ... Read more

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The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking explores the practice of analyzing problems and opportunities and provides a framework for finding common denominators, inconsistencies, biases, and underlying causes. It helps readers learn to think within the logic of subjects and professions. By offering proper tools for analysis and assessment of thought, it empowers readers to address any decision with
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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

by Aristotle ...

Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result ... Read more

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Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

by Eugenia Cheng ...

**How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world “Advanced mathematics could make a meaningful contribution to creating a better society. . . this book is proof it can.” —*Guardian ***In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In* The Art of Logic in an Illogical World*, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to ... Read more

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**How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world “Advanced mathematics could make a meaningful contribution to creating a better society. . . this book is proof it can.” —*Guardian ***In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In* The Art of Logic in an Illogical World*, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to
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The Score

How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

by C. Thi Nguyen ...

**“Mind-expanding . . . The Score is so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times“Brilliant and wildly original . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post“I give this excellent book five stars.” *—*Stuart Jeffries, Financial ... Read more

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**“Mind-expanding . . . The Score is so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times“Brilliant and wildly original . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post“I give this excellent book five stars.” *—*Stuart Jeffries, Financial
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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1 (1867–1893)

Selected Philosophical Writings

Edited by Nathan Houser, Christian Kloesel ...

Series Book 1 - The Essential Peirce
The first of two volumes of key texts from American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of pragmatism."Often considered the greatest American philosopher, Peirce produced no comprehensive treatise; until now, students and scholars had to read through widely scattered papers to gain an overall view of his thought. This anthology remedies that situation by offering a full representation ... Read more

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The first of two volumes of key texts from American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of pragmatism."Often considered the greatest American philosopher, Peirce produced no comprehensive treatise; until now, students and scholars had to read through widely scattered papers to gain an overall view of his thought. This anthology remedies that situation by offering a full representation
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Truth Addict

How to Ask Questions, Test Ideas, and Get Answers in a Data-Driven World

by John Victor Kane ...

Foreword by Charles Wheelan, author of New York Times bestseller Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the DataWhat makes some evidence strong, some evidence weak, and some evidence total nonsense? Truth Addict is your guide to answers.Individuals, policymakers, and businesses across the globe want to make decisions based on ... ... Read more

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Foreword by Charles Wheelan, author of New York Times bestseller Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the DataWhat makes some evidence strong, some evidence weak, and some evidence total nonsense? Truth Addict is your guide to answers.Individuals, policymakers, and businesses across the globe want to make decisions based on ...
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The Essential Bertrand Russell

by Bertrand Russell ...

The Essential Bertrand Russell is an extraordinary collection of writings by one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers. This comprehensive anthology brings together Bertrand Russell’s groundbreaking work in philosophy, mathematics, politics, education, and ethics, offering readers a window into the mind of a towering intellectual whose ideas shaped modern thought.At the heart of the ... Read more

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The Essential Bertrand Russell is an extraordinary collection of writings by one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers. This comprehensive anthology brings together Bertrand Russell’s groundbreaking work in philosophy, mathematics, politics, education, and ethics, offering readers a window into the mind of a towering intellectual whose ideas shaped modern thought.At the heart of the
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The Limits of Thought

Discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm

by David Bohm, J. Krishnamurti ...

The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. Krishnamurti and the renowned physicist, David Bohm.The starting point of their engaging exchange is the question: If truth is something different than reality, then what place has action in daily life in relation to truth and reality? We see Bohm and Krishnamurti explore the nature of consciousness ... Read more

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The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. Krishnamurti and the renowned physicist, David Bohm.The starting point of their engaging exchange is the question: If truth is something different than reality, then what place has action in daily life in relation to truth and reality? We see Bohm and Krishnamurti explore the nature of consciousness
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Mathematical Logic

On Numbers, Sets, Structures, and Symmetry

by Roman Kossak ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book, presented in two parts, offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions.Its first part, Logic Sets, and Numbers, shows how mathematical logic is used to develop the number structures of classical mathematics. The exposition does not assume any prerequisites; it is ... Read more

$58.49 USD

This book, presented in two parts, offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions.Its first part, Logic Sets, and Numbers, shows how mathematical logic is used to develop the number structures of classical mathematics. The exposition does not assume any prerequisites; it is
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Informal Logic

A Pragmatic Approach

by Douglas Walton ...

Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

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Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole

How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect (Revised and Updated - Includes Information about 2020 Election Fraud, The Coronavirus Pandemic, The Rise of QAnon, and UFOs)

by Mick West ...

Revised and updated for the first time in 2023—Now includes strategies for debunking conspiracies regarding the coronavirus pandemic, election fraud, QAnon, UFOs, and more.The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre.All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in ... Read more

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Revised and updated for the first time in 2023—Now includes strategies for debunking conspiracies regarding the coronavirus pandemic, election fraud, QAnon, UFOs, and more.The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre.All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in
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Critical Thinking

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life

by Richard Paul, Linda Elder ...

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking.Based in theory developed over the last 30 years, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's text focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It fosters the development of ... Read more

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Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking.Based in theory developed over the last 30 years, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's text focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It fosters the development of
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

the original authoritative edition

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sam Vaseghi ...

THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. The project had a broad aim - to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science - and is recognized as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century. Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the ... Read more

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THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. The project had a broad aim - to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science - and is recognized as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century. Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the
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Philosophical Theories of Probability

by Donald Gillies ...

Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research. This has stimulated many new philosophical ideas on probability.Philosophical Theories of Probability is the first book to present a clear, comprehensive and systematic account of these various theories and to explain how they relate to one another. Gillies also offers a ... Read more

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The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research. This has stimulated many new philosophical ideas on probability.Philosophical Theories of Probability is the first book to present a clear, comprehensive and systematic account of these various theories and to explain how they relate to one another. Gillies also offers a
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Philosophy of Logics

by Susan Haack ...

The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses. Haack discusses the scope and purpose of logic, validity, truth-functions, ... Read more

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The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses. Haack discusses the scope and purpose of logic, validity, truth-functions,
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The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell ...

Bertrand Russell's classic primer on Western philosophy and the greatest thinkers of the past three millenniaWith zest and rigor, Bertrand Russell applies twentieth-century thinking to age-old philosophy, from the works of Plato and Aristotle to those of René Descartes and John Locke. In The Problems of Philosophy, he reviews the Western canon's most influential ideas and thought experiments, ... Read more

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Bertrand Russell's classic primer on Western philosophy and the greatest thinkers of the past three millenniaWith zest and rigor, Bertrand Russell applies twentieth-century thinking to age-old philosophy, from the works of Plato and Aristotle to those of René Descartes and John Locke. In The Problems of Philosophy, he reviews the Western canon's most influential ideas and thought experiments,
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The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1

by Euclid ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time — the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a ... Read more

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This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time — the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a
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Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

by Tom J. F. Tillemans, E. Gene Smith ...

Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood.In this volume, one of ... Read more

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Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood.In this volume, one of
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