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Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
The Defence of Reason in Descartes' Meditations
In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for the truth of our beliefs? Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen provides ...
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Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that environment and genes each play. How we raise and educate our children, how we treat various mental ...
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Fearful Symmetry
The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book describes the majestic ...
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"The Grand Contraption" tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. ...
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Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas. Arguing that there is a necessary connection between liberty and truth, Lippman excoriates the press, claiming that it exists primarily for its own purposes and agendas and only ...
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- Princeton, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 276 páginas
PVP: 23,96 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12942-6
EAN 9780691129426
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else ...
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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, ...
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- Princeton, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 314 páginas
PVP: 30,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11862-8
EAN 9780691118628
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The Art of Bloomsbury
Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant
- Princeton, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 49,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-09514-1
EAN 9780691095141
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The Seduction of Unreason
. The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
- Princeton, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 24,64 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12599-2
EAN 9780691125992
Fifteen years ago, revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sent shock waves throughout European and North American intellectual circles. Ever since, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism's infatuation with fascism has ...
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- Princeton, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12294-6
EAN 9780691122946
A 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken ...
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- Princeton, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13640-0
EAN 9780691136400
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- Princeton, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12013-3
EAN 9780691120133
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In "The Gifts of ...
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- Princeton, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 80,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11773-7
EAN 9780691117737
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Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists : Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread O
- Princeton, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 51,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12128-4
EAN 9780691121284
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