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Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems by Peter Cave
Category: Photography
What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, fascinating insights and common ...Show more
How to Think Like a Bat: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy by Peter Cave
Category: Non-Fiction
How do you know that you exist? What does it mean to have a future? Are you the same thing as your brain? What does it mean to be free? How can you know what knowledge is? A woman was advising her anguished friend, 'Be philosophical - then you won't need to think about it.' Well, being philosophical is ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
Category: Reference | Series: How to Think Ser.
An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provid ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
Category: Reference | Series: How to Think Ser.
How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these questions at one time or another, and, as Socrates famously said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living'. In showing how the great philosophers of human history reasoned and what ...Show more
The Myths We Live By - Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions by Peter Cave
Category: Non-Fiction
Discover how philosophy can shine a light on the world's most divisive issues.
The Myths We Live By: Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions by Peter Cave
Category: Politics
In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal that many issues are less straightforward than we'd like to believe. Leaving no sacred cow standing, Cave uses ingenious stories and examples to challenge o ...Show more
This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes by Peter Cave
Category: Non-Fiction
This book offers a lively and accessible introduction to philosophical paradoxes - ideal for anyone coming to this fascinating subject for the first time. Put your neurons through their paces with this lively and engaging introduction to paradoxes. From "Buridan's Ass" and the "Surprise Examination" to ...Show more
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