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45Tabloid 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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475What's it all about?: philosophy and the meaning of lifeOxford University Press. 2005.What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and mysterious meaning to life, a single ultimate purpose behind human existence? In What's It All About?, Julian Baggini says no, there is no single meaning. Instead, Baggini argues meaning can be found in a variety of ways, in this life. He succinctly brea…Read more
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12Julian Baggini provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad arguments people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.
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8Do 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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51This book includes experiments that cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and more.
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5Darwin’s empty ideaThe Philosophers' Magazine 49 23-32. 2010.“It’s not good enough to say there’s some mechanism such that you start out with amoebas and you end up with us. Everybody agrees with that. The question is in this case in the mechanical details. What you need is an account, as it were step by step, about what the constraints are, what the environmental variables are, and Darwin doesn’t give you that.”
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37The problem of pluralismThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 72-77. 2008.One does not need to hold that western philosophy, or some subset of it, is superior to other kinds in order to worry about whether different strands of philosophy can meaningfully engage in dialogue together. Nor do these worries necessarily entail any arrogance. We can always learn form others, but that does not mean we should not prioritise some encounters over others.
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