The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want... Zobraziť viac
This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic... Zobraziť viac
What is the meaning of life? Are weI truly free? How can we make ethical choices? Discover the answers to life's greatest questions. Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, .. Zobraziť viac
The book is a second volume of the project, which is focused on a systematic examination of aesthetic experience by the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience... Zobraziť viac
OUP USA: One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end... Zobraziť viac
How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump? This book reveals how political, social and technological change has... Zobraziť viac
Příspěvky v tomto výboru rekonstruují Antisthenovo myšlení v širším rámci antické filosofie. Antisthenés zde představuje spojnici mezi klasickou sókratovskou... Zobraziť viac
Titul Teoretičeskije i prikladnyje aspekty lingvističeskoj sinkretologii je pouze v ruském jazyce... Zobraziť viac
'Never has the story been told so well,' said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb'sThe Dream of Reason, an 'endlessly entertaining and frequently instructive' (Times Literary Supplement) history of philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissanc Zobraziť viac
The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling Mythos. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, ... Zobraziť viac
How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved... Zobraziť viac
Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence. In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art... Zobraziť viac
Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his... Zobraziť viac
A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning... Zobraziť viac
Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his... Zobraziť viac
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers... Zobraziť viac
The fascination of beauty has given rise to a long-standing European philosophical tradition on the idea of beauty the beginnings of which link back to ancient Greek mythology. However, at the dawn of Modernity the discourse on ... Zobraziť viac
Can war ever be justified? Why is it wrong to kill? In this new book Richard Norman looks at these and other related... Zobraziť viac
A classic of both philosophy and jurisprudence, this 1789 work articulates an important statement of the foundations of... Zobraziť viac
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," ... Zobraziť viac
