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The Duck That Won the Lottery : and 99 other bad arguments by Julian Baggini
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be aroun ...Show more
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Godless Gospel - Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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 Philosopher's Toolkit by Julian Baggini
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Wiley Desktop Editions
The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection. It features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the ...Show more
The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten by Julian Baggini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and ...Show more
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
100 philosophical puzzles - how to approach them, how to begin to understand them, and come up with possible answers Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/hersel ...Show more
The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living by Julian Baggini & Antonia Macaro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life's questions. Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly c ...Show more
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini
$27.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
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
What More Philosophers Think by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom (eds)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Following on from the success of the first edition of "What Philosophers Think", this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics, including: Bernard Williams ...Show more