論理学・言語学

Art as Experience evolved from John Dewey's Willam James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University from February to May 1931....

Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten...? Thought experiments are short scenarios that pose a moral or philosophical problem in a vivid and concrete way....

How would you measure up against Oxbridge’s sharpest minds? Find out....

Einer der größten abendländischen Denker überhaupt, ein Denker vom Rang und der Tiefe eines Leibniz." So nannte der Philosoph Heinrich Scholz den 1848 in Wismar geborenen und 1925 in Bad Kleinen verstorbenen Mathematiker, Logiker und Philosophen Gottlob Frege....

One of Solve for Happy's key premises is that happiness is a default state....

Es el tratado sobre estrategia más famoso del mundo, que se ha convertido en un libro de culto en el ámbito de la empresa....

With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how....

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only full-length philosophical book by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime....

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

Le "Discours de la méthode" est un texte composite, assez peu méthodique en vérité, qui touche à la morale, à la logique, aux sciences...

Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....

In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? This book answers these questions....

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....

Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview....

Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles.... 

Inside this three-in-one collection, you’ll uncover a wealth of philosophical insights about truth, faith, and the universe around us. Drawing on the arguments and musings of the famed philosopher David Hume, this book reveals his ideas on the questions that define our very existence....

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life....

The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity....

Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's.....

This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States....

Rousseau s'interroge dans cet essai moins sur l'origine des langues à proprement parler que sur le fondement de la parole...

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are....

Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...