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107Atheism: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press. 2003.Do you think of atheists as immoral pessimists who live their lives without meaning, purpose, or values? Think again! Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral.
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19Presents an additional one hundred philosophical puzzles that encourage readers to seek their own conclusions about a broad spectrum of moral, social, and personal issues.
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18Do you think what you think you think?: the ultimate philosophical quiz bookGranta Books. 2006.The author of the international bestseller "The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten" and his fellow founding editor of "The Philosophers Magazine" have some thought-provoking, challenging, and surprising questions about thinking.
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89Counsel of despair?The Philosophers' Magazine 49 57-62. 2010.“Whilst philosophical counsellors recognise that philosophy is a potentially practical and useful discipline, this isn’t how many of general public or counselling service providers perceive it. Philosophy has still got a lot of persuading to do about its practical relevance and efficacy.”
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121Tabloid shockerThink 4 (10): 87-92. 2005.Julian Baggini has managed to lay his hands on some newspaper articles from the future.
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126Seoul searchingThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 28-34. 2008.The overall nature of a world congress is a combination of the perennial features of its structure and the particular character given by its host. This was the first congress to be heldin Asia in the gathering’s 108 year history, and in the grand auditorium of Seoul National University, it was as though we were being welcomed to South Korea first, and the congress second.
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135Uniting nations?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 94-98. 2008.The whole purpose of the UN is to bring nations together. In an era of globalisation and short term economic goals and values, we need to go back to reflect on the purposes of UNESCO as a place for foresight, a laboratory of ideas, exploring people’s identity and helping shape this. And I also hope that we can introduce these ideas backto the mainstream European and North American traditions, which tend to dominate, so that people can see there are different traditions and cultures and there’s n…Read more
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142The philosopher’s philosopherThe Philosophers' Magazine 41 (41): 18-25. 2008.My father really looked forward to reading my book and then was terribly disappointed when he found it was unreadable. One of the reader’s reports for the press when it was published said ‘This book is written ordinary English – there are no symbols, little of what could be called technical terminology – but this appearance is entirely misleading’.
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20Hume on ReligionRoutledge. 2010.This book collects together, for the first time in one volume, all of the major writings on religion by Britain's great 18th-century philosopher, David Hume.
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131What on earth?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 50-55. 2008.It’s quite unlike anything else. One just gets the sense of a breadth and variety of philosophy that’s going on. I’m making a point of going on the whole to sessions in areas which aren’t close to my specialised scholarly interests and hearing people from countries I don’t normally encounter. One could stick to mainstream Anglo-American analytic philosophy – there’s enough of that going on here – but why come all this way for that?
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72Thank goodness for DanThe Philosophers' Magazine 48 60-65. 2010.I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
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Conference briefing 30 free will and determinism Ron Wilburn et alThe Philosophers' Magazine 13. 2001.
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571The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and MethodsWiley-Blackwell. 2010.The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains difficu…Read more
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