200 Words To Help You Talk About Philosophy

Author : Anja Steinbauer
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399608401
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 200 Words to Help You Talk about Philosophy written by Anja Steinbauer and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy is designed to demystify jargon-based philosophic language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. Philosophy can be baffling, as well as fascinating, to the best of us. Let Anja Steinbauer guide you through doubt, dialectic, Dao, and much more. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your philosophical vocabulary. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy is one of two new titles beginning a series of smart subjects, also including art, psychology, and music.

Author : Ben Street
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399608398
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 200 Words to Help You Talk about Art written by Ben Street and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is designed to demystify jargon-based art language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. Art can be intimidating to the uninitiated, but with Ben Street's help you'll know your Dada from your diptych in no time. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your artistic vocabulary. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is one of two new titles beginning a series of smart subjects, also including philosophy, psychology, and music.

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555456
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Philosophy written by Timothy Williamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences. He also shows how logical rigour can be understood as a way of enhancing the explanatory power of philosophical theories. Drawing on the history of philosophy to provide a track record of philosophical thinking's successes and failures, Williamson overturns widely held dogmas about the distinctive nature of philosophy in comparison to the sciences, demystifies its methods, and considers the future of the discipline. From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this little book will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is.

Author : John Smith
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 0857255924
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talk, Thinking and Philosophy in the Primary Classroom written by John Smith and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk, thinking and philosophy are crucial components of children's learning. This book is a practical and readable guide to the ways in which teachers can provide children with the opportunities to develop and use these skills to their greatest effect. It begins by asking why talking and thinking should be taught and examines current approaches in this area. It goes on to look at how teachers can develop talking and thinking skills across the six Areas of Learning to help children gain confidence and deepen understanding.

Author : Jonny Thomson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472282183
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mini Philosophy written by Jonny Thomson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks Why do people enjoy watching scary movies? Should we bet on the existence of God? Why is pleasure better than pain? And when is a duck not a duck? Mini Philosophy is a fascinating journey into what some of the greatest minds of the last 2500 years have to say about the big questions in life, and why they are relevant to us today. Covering everything from Sun Tzu's strategy for winning at board games to Freud's insights into our 'death drive'; why De Beauvoir believed the mothering instinct is a myth to why Schopenhauer probably wasn't much fun at parties, these mini meditations will expand your mind (and bend it too).

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375750363
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Philosopher written by Bryan Magee and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-05-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this infectiously exciting book, Bryan Magee tells the story of his own discovery of philosophy and not only makes it come alive but shows its relevance to daily life. Magee is the Carl Sagan of philosophy, the great popularizer of the subject, and author of a major new introductory history, The Story of Philosophy. Confessions follows the course of Magee's life, exploring philosophers and ideas as he himself encountered them, introducing all the great figures and their ideas, from the pre-Socratics to Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper, including Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, rationalism, utilitarianism, empiricism, and existentialism.

Author : Lesli Richardson
Publisher : Lesli Richardson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity (Determination Trilogy 1) written by Lesli Richardson and published by Lesli Richardson. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book 1 in the Determination Trilogy) He wants it back… My name is Kevin Markos, former anchor for Full News Broadcasting. I say former, because an exhaustion- and frustration-fueled emotional on-air meltdown of apocalyptic proportions means my previously dignified reputation and successful career as a highly respected conservative TV news host and commentator lay in smoking, irreparable ruins. Only one person will hire me now, and it's the last person I want to work for—Democratic Senator ShaeLynn Samuels, who's determined to be the next president of the United States. My reluctance isn't because of her, but because of who's working for her: Christopher Bruunt, the head of her Secret Service detail. A college spring break trip I thought was safely hidden forever in my past, even if it never strayed far from my thoughts, now comes back to haunt me. But if I take this job and succeed, it could resurrect my career and put me at the right hand of the most powerful person in the United States. But how much am I personally willing to sacrifice to claw my way back to the top? Because Christopher never forgot that spring break, either. And he has a few agendas of his own. This MMF contemporary political romance features older main characters, second-chance love, an Alpha Secret Service agent, power exchange, pining, frenemies to lovers, a secret workplace romance at the highest levels of our nation's government, political intrigue, and a satisfying HEA. Book 1 of the Determination Trilogy, a standalone spin-off trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy, the Devastation Trilogy, and others.

Author : Thomas Belden Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Weather written by Thomas Belden Butler and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the consequences of being able to predict with relative certainty a day's weather? This text explores why we care so much about weather and what we can do with our growing knowledge.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212767
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People written by Steven Nadler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book the philosophers Steve Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro will explain why bad thinking happens to good people. Why is it, they ask, that so large a segment of public can go so wrong in both how they come to form the opinions they do and how they fail to appreciate the moral consequences of acting on them."--Publisher's description.