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A Short History of Truth - Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily each can become the ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
How the World Thinks: Global/Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Th ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. Pay attention.As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real w ...Show more
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World by Julian Baggini
$39.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. J ...Show more
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Are you still the person who lived 15, 10 or five years ago? 15, 10 or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented a ...Show more
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosop ...Show more
The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten by Julian Baggini
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain. 'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thought' - ...Show more
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini
$28.00 AUD
Category: Food
How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consi ...Show more
Without God, is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics by Julian Baggini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough 'right vs right' dilemmas, where each side ...Show more
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