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Publisher
Walking Shadows LLC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 204 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Roger Nygard (Trekkies) takes on The nature of existence, roaming the globe to interview spiritual leaders, scientists, and artists who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (194 pages : 5 illustrations
Language
English
Description
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a number of special cases in the sciences. He also argues for a particular view of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It...
86) Philosophy bites
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 244 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Edmonds and Warburton challenged some of the world's leading philosophers to hold forth on their favorite topics for their podcast, Philosophy bites. The result is a book that give unexpected insights into hot topics spanning ethics, politics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life.
88) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Formats
Description
General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be...
91) Sister age
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces the coming of old age. With a saint to guide us, she writes, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy like Sister Age" But in the stories, it is the human strength in the unavoidable encounter with the end of life that Fisher dramatizes so powerfully. Other themes—the importance of witnessing...
93) Problems of men
Author
Publisher
Philosophical library
Pub. Date
[1946]
Physical Desc
5 pages ., 3-424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 628 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Over 35 excerpts from philosophers from Aristotle to Hume, arranged by discipline: social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art and aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science.
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