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The Socratic Method

A Practitioner's Handbook

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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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On the Tragic

Traduit par Ryan L. Showler ...

par Peter Wessel Zapffe ...

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and useful definition on the basis of a "biosophical" look at the situation of organisms in their environment and their attempt to realize interests on ... En savoir plus

$118.25 CAD

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and useful definition on the basis of a "biosophical" look at the situation of organisms in their environment and their attempt to realize interests on
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Ecopsychology

par Vladimir Antonov ...

This book is written in a simple and easy-to-understand language by scientist-biologist Dr. Vladimir Antonov. It covers the essential issues: what is God, the place of human being in the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness, principles of forming and correction of destiny, ways of attaining health and happiness, most effective methods of psychic self-regulation, about spiritual development and ... En savoir plus

$7.01 CAD

This book is written in a simple and easy-to-understand language by scientist-biologist Dr. Vladimir Antonov. It covers the essential issues: what is God, the place of human being in the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness, principles of forming and correction of destiny, ways of attaining health and happiness, most effective methods of psychic self-regulation, about spiritual development and
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Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

par Rachel Cooper ...

"Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science" explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of psychiatry that distinguish it from other sciences - for example, its contested subject matter, its particular modes of explanation, its multiple different theoretical frameworks, and its research links with big business ... En savoir plus

$75.14 CAD

"Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science" explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of psychiatry that distinguish it from other sciences - for example, its contested subject matter, its particular modes of explanation, its multiple different theoretical frameworks, and its research links with big business
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Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

par Daniel C. Dennett ...

One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... En savoir plus

$19.79 CAD

One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett
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The Practicing Stoic

A Philosophical User's Manual

par Ward Farnsworth ...

“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease ... En savoir plus

$16.55 CAD

“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease
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Vibrate Higher Daily

Live Your Power

par Lalah Delia ...

Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram star and self-help pioneer behind the internet community Vibrate Higher Daily.“There is another way of being in the world. There is a better way to exist, rise, move beyond, and take our power back.”Too often on our spiritual journey, we feel pulled down by circumstances or the negativity of others. ... En savoir plus

$15.99 CAD

Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram star and self-help pioneer behind the internet community Vibrate Higher Daily.“There is another way of being in the world. There is a better way to exist, rise, move beyond, and take our power back.”Too often on our spiritual journey, we feel pulled down by circumstances or the negativity of others.
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Infinite Resignation

par Eugene Thacker ...

“Scholarly advice for dark times.” —The New Yorker“Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company.” —New York Times“Probably philosophy’s only beach read.”—ViceA ‘nihilist’s devotional,’ this collection aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism offer a raw look at the human conditionDark times lie around us and ahead of us, and what better way to survive the coming ... En savoir plus

$8.63 CAD

“Scholarly advice for dark times.” —The New Yorker“Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company.” —New York Times“Probably philosophy’s only beach read.”—ViceA ‘nihilist’s devotional,’ this collection aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism offer a raw look at the human conditionDark times lie around us and ahead of us, and what better way to survive the coming
... En savoir plus
Prayer: The Art of Believing

par Neville Goddard ...

Prayer: The Art of Believing by Neville Goddard PRAYER is a science susceptible of being reduced to rules that prove it to be based upon demonstrable laws. The intellectual school of scientists will not accept our claim of science for prayer, because we operate in a field that they have not investigated. However "there are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of" in their ... En savoir plus

$6.29 CAD

Prayer: The Art of Believing by Neville Goddard PRAYER is a science susceptible of being reduced to rules that prove it to be based upon demonstrable laws. The intellectual school of scientists will not accept our claim of science for prayer, because we operate in a field that they have not investigated. However "there are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of" in their
... En savoir plus
La solitude

cours de philosophie

par Hubert Grenier ...

La solitude, la solitude il est clair que c'est un état d'âme. Il n'y a de solitude qu’éprouvée, sentie du dedans, vécue par un moi. La solitude ne se définit pas du dehors, comme si c'était quelque chose d'objectif, de géographique. Est seul qui a l'impression d'être seul. Nul ne le sait à part lui. On peut être seul sans aucunement éprouver de solitude, si l'on pense par exemple à ceux que l'on ... En savoir plus

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La solitude, la solitude il est clair que c'est un état d'âme. Il n'y a de solitude qu’éprouvée, sentie du dedans, vécue par un moi. La solitude ne se définit pas du dehors, comme si c'était quelque chose d'objectif, de géographique. Est seul qui a l'impression d'être seul. Nul ne le sait à part lui. On peut être seul sans aucunement éprouver de solitude, si l'on pense par exemple à ceux que l'on
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The Examined Run

Why Good People Make Better Runners

par Sabrina B. Little ...

Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner? In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics--virtue, vice, exemplarism, moral emotions, and competition--and brings them into conversation with her ... En savoir plus

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Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner? In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics--virtue, vice, exemplarism, moral emotions, and competition--and brings them into conversation with her
... En savoir plus
A Realist Philosophy of Economics

par Karl Mittermaier ...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Economic theory relies heavily on the idea of rational action, but how are we to understand the empirical content of rational choice when we can only observe the outcome, not what goes into making the choice?With contributions from Alan Kirman and Rod O'Donnell, Karl Mittermaier's posthumously published work establishes a new conceptual ... En savoir plus

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EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Economic theory relies heavily on the idea of rational action, but how are we to understand the empirical content of rational choice when we can only observe the outcome, not what goes into making the choice?With contributions from Alan Kirman and Rod O'Donnell, Karl Mittermaier's posthumously published work establishes a new conceptual
... En savoir plus
Discourse on Method

par René Descartes ...

Descartes's revolutionary treatise on reason and scientific thought, which sparked radical breakthroughs in mathematics, philosophy, and metaphysicsAfter he finished school, René Descartes was left with more doubts than certainties. His Jesuit education included some of the best teaching available in mathematics, physics, and letters, and yet Descartes found the foundations of his schooling hollow ... En savoir plus

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Descartes's revolutionary treatise on reason and scientific thought, which sparked radical breakthroughs in mathematics, philosophy, and metaphysicsAfter he finished school, René Descartes was left with more doubts than certainties. His Jesuit education included some of the best teaching available in mathematics, physics, and letters, and yet Descartes found the foundations of his schooling hollow
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Introduction à la philosophie

par Karl Jaspers ...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d’une biographie de Karl Jaspers. "Le mot grec "philosophe" ("philosophos") est formé par opposition à "sophos". Il désigne celui qui aime le savoir, par différence avec celui qui, possédant le savoir, se nomme savant. Ce sens persiste encore aujourd’hui: l’essence de la philosophie, c’est la recherche de la vérité, non sa possession, même si elle se trahit elle-même, ... En savoir plus

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Texte intégral révisé suivi d’une biographie de Karl Jaspers. "Le mot grec "philosophe" ("philosophos") est formé par opposition à "sophos". Il désigne celui qui aime le savoir, par différence avec celui qui, possédant le savoir, se nomme savant. Ce sens persiste encore aujourd’hui: l’essence de la philosophie, c’est la recherche de la vérité, non sa possession, même si elle se trahit elle-même,
... En savoir plus
Ethics

A Contemporary Introduction

par Harry J Gensler ...

Collections series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy. It gets students to struggle with the big questions of morality while it also relates these questions to practical issues, especially racism, global warming, moral education, and abortion. Providing a practical method for thinking about moral issues—a method based largely on the golden ... En savoir plus

$76.37 CAD

Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy. It gets students to struggle with the big questions of morality while it also relates these questions to practical issues, especially racism, global warming, moral education, and abortion. Providing a practical method for thinking about moral issues—a method based largely on the golden
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Le bonheur

Cours de philosophie

par Hubert Grenier ...

Le rigorisme n'est pas philosophique. Spinoza écrit dans le scolie de la proposition 45 du quatrième livre de l'Ethique : « Ce n'est certes qu'une sauvage et triste superstition qui interdit de prendre du plaisir. User des choses, dit plus loin Spinoza, et y prendre plaisir autant qu'il se peut (non certes jusqu'au dégoût, car ce n'est plus y prendre plaisir) est d’un homme sage. » Aucune ... En savoir plus

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Le rigorisme n'est pas philosophique. Spinoza écrit dans le scolie de la proposition 45 du quatrième livre de l'Ethique : « Ce n'est certes qu'une sauvage et triste superstition qui interdit de prendre du plaisir. User des choses, dit plus loin Spinoza, et y prendre plaisir autant qu'il se peut (non certes jusqu'au dégoût, car ce n'est plus y prendre plaisir) est d’un homme sage. » Aucune
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Philosophy of Mathematics

An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

par James Robert Brown ...

Collections series Philosophical Issues in Science
Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:* the mathematical image* platonism* picture-proofs* applied mathematics* Hilbert and Godel* knots and nations* definitions* picture-proofs and Wittgenstein* computation, proof and conjecture ... En savoir plus

$96.09 CAD

Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:* the mathematical image* platonism* picture-proofs* applied mathematics* Hilbert and Godel* knots and nations* definitions* picture-proofs and Wittgenstein* computation, proof and conjecture
... En savoir plus
The 5 Human Types

How to read people using the science of Human Analysis (Complete Volumes 1-7)

par Elsie Benedict ...

Collections series Ideas for Life
Human Analysis differs from every other system of character analysis in that it classifies man into five types according to his biological evolution. No person achieves success or happiness when compelled to do what he naturally dislikes to do. Since these likes and dislikes stay with him to the grave, one of the biggest modern problems is that of helping men and women to discover and to ... En savoir plus

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Human Analysis differs from every other system of character analysis in that it classifies man into five types according to his biological evolution. No person achieves success or happiness when compelled to do what he naturally dislikes to do. Since these likes and dislikes stay with him to the grave, one of the biggest modern problems is that of helping men and women to discover and to
... En savoir plus
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics

From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

par Karl Popper ...

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is the third volume of the Postscript. It may be read independently, ... En savoir plus

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Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is the third volume of the Postscript. It may be read independently,
... En savoir plus
Inference to the Best Explanation

par Peter Lipton ...

Collections series International Library of Philosophy
How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we take the ability of a hypothesis to explain the evidence as a sign that the hypothesis is correct. In Inference to the Best Explanation, Peter ... En savoir plus

$75.14 CAD

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we take the ability of a hypothesis to explain the evidence as a sign that the hypothesis is correct. In Inference to the Best Explanation, Peter
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How God Can Be Cognized.Autobiography of a Scientist Who Studied God

par Vladimir Antonov ...

This book is an autobiography of the Russian scientist-biologist, spiritual Master Vladimir Antonov, who is known for dozens of articles and for more than 40 books dedicated to the methodology and methods of spiritual development. In particular the author narrates about his studying from Divine Teachers, his mistakes and success in helping people spiritually, about his personal cognition of the ... En savoir plus

$6.02 CAD

This book is an autobiography of the Russian scientist-biologist, spiritual Master Vladimir Antonov, who is known for dozens of articles and for more than 40 books dedicated to the methodology and methods of spiritual development. In particular the author narrates about his studying from Divine Teachers, his mistakes and success in helping people spiritually, about his personal cognition of the
... En savoir plus
The Engineer's Argument: A philosophical argument against intelligent design

par Casper Rigsby ...

This book aims to give logically consistent reasoning for the dismissal of the idea of intelligent design through philosophical discourse based on given evidence of how our universe works. In these pages, I will address the logical fallacies I see in any intelligent design model that poses the notion of a creator god who created the universe with specific intent and purpose. It is my hope that I ... En savoir plus

$1.13 CAD

This book aims to give logically consistent reasoning for the dismissal of the idea of intelligent design through philosophical discourse based on given evidence of how our universe works. In these pages, I will address the logical fallacies I see in any intelligent design model that poses the notion of a creator god who created the universe with specific intent and purpose. It is my hope that I
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Kant's Prolegomena

To Any Future Metaphysics

par Immanuel Kant ...

These Prolegomena are destined for the use, not of pupils, but of future teachers, and even the latter should not expect that they will be serviceable for the systematic exposition of a ready-made science, but merely for the discovery of the science itself.There are scholarly men, to whom the history of philosophy (both ancient and modern) is philosophy itself; for these the present Prolegomena ... En savoir plus

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These Prolegomena are destined for the use, not of pupils, but of future teachers, and even the latter should not expect that they will be serviceable for the systematic exposition of a ready-made science, but merely for the discovery of the science itself.There are scholarly men, to whom the history of philosophy (both ancient and modern) is philosophy itself; for these the present Prolegomena
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The Ethics Of Confucius

par Miles Menander Dawson ...

The Ethics of ConfuciusBy Miles Menander DawsonThis work contains the sayings of the Master and his disciples upon the conduct of "The Superior Man." The ethical and political precepts of Confucius are not well known in Occidental countries, even to most of those who give special attention to these subjects; and of what is known, much, indeed most, is confused with the notion that Confucius taught ... En savoir plus

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The Ethics of ConfuciusBy Miles Menander DawsonThis work contains the sayings of the Master and his disciples upon the conduct of "The Superior Man." The ethical and political precepts of Confucius are not well known in Occidental countries, even to most of those who give special attention to these subjects; and of what is known, much, indeed most, is confused with the notion that Confucius taught
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