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  • A Brief History of the Paradox

    Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

    by Roy Sorensen ...
    Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Nothing

    A Philosophical History

    by Roy Sorensen ...
    An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This short and entertaining ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Seeing Dark Things

    The Philosophy of Shadows

    by Roy Sorensen ...
    If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things that do not reflect light. Shadows and holes are anomalies for the causal theory of perception, which ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities

    A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas

    by Roy Sorensen ...
    Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good! Will you buy this book?. Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative. Logic has made some men rich. Inside this book you will learn of John Eck (who debated Luther in 1519). He Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Epicureanism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Catherine Wilson ...
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    Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today. In this Very Short ... Read more

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  • The Art of Philosophizing

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    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy.The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art ... Read more

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  • How to Think About God

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  • God: All That Matters

    by Mark Vernon ...
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