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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The philosophy of science between the two world wars, 1920s-1930s.
Presents a group portrait of the early twentieth-century intellectuals who came together in post-World War I Vienna and transformed the way the world regarded math and science.
Author
Series
A Modern Library chronicals book volume 17
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From Darwin's essential trip to the Gal�apagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Features essays that are as much a portrait of the elegant thought processes of an unconventional and virtuoso mind as they are inquiries into their subjects, which range from meditations on how we see and treat the earth to the relationship between literature and religion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An accessible introduction to the philosophy of Karl Marx provides a framework for the theories of class struggle, alienation and revolution that ruled over the lives of millions of Communist citizens and sparked the attention of academics and intellectuals.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
If Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour, how would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has...
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