Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning (Williamson Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning (Williamson Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? In Doing Philosophy, Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and

Gizo-Gizo: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon (Williamson Emily)(Pevná vazba)

Spaceflight - The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiosity (Sparrow Giles)(Pevná vazba)

The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics (Miguens Sofia)(Pevná vazba)

'A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.'--Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of VirginiaCould there be a logical alien--a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours,

The Adventure (Agamben Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and

Snow (Pamuk Orhan)(Pevná vazba)

Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in

Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry (Klagge James C.)(Pevná vazba)

How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, 'Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry.' In Wittgenstein's Artillery, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach his audience,

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Maudlin Tim)(Pevná vazba)

A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum

Medieval Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 4 (Adamson Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the least widely known. Adamson introduces us to

Logical Book - A Supertramp Compendium (Shenton Laura)(Pevná vazba)

From the breakthrough with Crime Of The Century to the colossal success of Breakfast In America, it was never a smooth journey for Supertramp. With ups & downs financially, commercially & in working relationships, Supertramp lived the highs & lows of the music business. From local gigs to highly

First Day of My Life (Williamson Lisa)(Pevná vazba)

An incredible new Young Adult title from the bestselling author of THE ART OF BEING

The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay (Gaukroger Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy--and what we can learn from them Philosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy

The Foraged Home (MacLennan Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

Artful home interiors are born from curiosity, creativity, and imagination, yet many of us fail to see a potential curtain rod in a bamboo stick or a kitchen counter in an old carpenter's bench.Anyone can create a beautiful home without expensive store-bought pieces simply by foraging and

The Complete Old English Poems (Williamson Craig)(Pevná vazba)

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve,

Short Philosophy of Birds (Dubois Philippe J.)(Pevná vazba)

The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creaturesThere is so much we can learn from birds. Having spent a lifetime watching birds, Philippe and Elise - a French ornithologist and a philosopher - draw out the secret lessons that birds can teach us about how to live, and the wisdom of the

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (Barber David)(Pevná vazba)

Machine learning methods extract value from vast data sets quickly and with modest resources. They are established tools in a wide range of industrial applications, including search engines, DNA sequencing, stock market analysis, and robot locomotion, and their use is spreading rapidly. People who

The Girl with Big, Big Questions (Lee Britney Winn)(Pevná vazba)

From the bestselling Big, Big series comes a book that celebrates the spirit of curiosity and encourages kids to courageously ask their hard questions 'Why can't people live on the moon?' 'Can I be president when I grow up?' 'What makes a person good?' These are just some of the questions that

Jane Bown: A Lifetime of Looking (Bown Jane)(Pevná vazba)

Includes portraits and extensive photojournalism from the Greenham Common evictions to the Iranian embassy

Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Lear Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry--psychoanalysis and moral philosophy--that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Honderich Ted)(Pevná vazba)

Offering clear and reliable guidance to the ideas of philosophers from antiquity to the present day and to the major philosophical systems around the globe, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy is the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Quayson Ato)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric

Inspired by Place (Ewald Chase Reynolds)(Pevná vazba)

The philosophy of CLB, Inspired by Place, permeates all the firm's design work, from public projects to bespoke homes. Their portfolio projects -- timeless, thoughtful, distinct, and beautiful -- are examples of how to tread softly on the land in some of the world's most iconic landscapes. They

Manga Classics Frankenstein (Shelly Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster

Where We Go From Here (Rocha Lucas)(Pevná vazba)

An honest and compulsive novel which unveils the common misconceptions and prejudices surrounding HIV in the twenty-first century, showing how far we've come while shining a light on how just far we have yet to