Logic
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Gödel’s Proof
$18.00 Add to cartAn accessible explanation of Kurt G?del’s groundbreaking work in mathematical logic
In 1931 Kurt G?del published his fundamental paper, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica a- Author: Nagel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0814758371
- Language: English
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
$19.99 Add to cart“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
David M. Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis
- Author: Potter, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061319295
- Language: English
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
$19.99 Add to cartHow both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logi- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672496
- Language: English
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Logic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLogic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this concepti… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Priest, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0198811705
- Language: English
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Stoicism: How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness
$39.99 Add to cart“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics knew what made for a good person – and a good life. Four simple virtues empowered them to cope with the end
- Author: Hemlock, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1777184940
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
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Quantum Entanglement
$16.95 Add to cartAn exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common s
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Brody, Jed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 026253844X
- Language: English
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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
$19.99 Add to cartThe finest introduction to “the greatest philosopher of the 20th century” (New York Times Book Review), including the complete text of the Tractatus, The Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty
Major W
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0061550248
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
$25.00 Add to cart“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062410660
- Language: English
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True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock and Impress Your Friends
$19.95 Add to cartProve you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 true trivia facts that sound absurd. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t!
Knowledge is power! Crush the c
- Series: Mind-Blowing True Facts
- Author: Carley, Shane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1646433181
- Language: English
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Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice
$20.00 Add to cartIs it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?
We’ve all wrestled with questions like these, whether we’r- Author: Shahvisi, Arianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136836
- Language: English
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
$20.95 Add to cartThe bestselling book that has helped millions of readers solve any problem
A must-have guide by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It shows anyone in any field how to think straight. In luci- Series: Princeton Science Library #34
- Author: Polya, G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 27 2014
- ISBN10: 069116407X
- Language: English
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The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life
$25.99 Add to cart- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: October 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1108477224
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!
Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Alm
- Series: Bad Arguments
- Author: Almossawi, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 1615192255
- Language: English
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
$19.00 Add to cart“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . .” —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American
The Freakonomics of math–a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its- Author: Ellenberg, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127535
- Language: English
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
$19.95 Add to cart“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuri
–John Horgan- Author: Larson, Erik J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278666
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$12.99 Add to cart“Philosophy is not a theory,” asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), “but an activity.” In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Witt
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0486404455
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Aristotle
$9.95 Add to cartMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry, observation, and judgment. This book offers a contemporary reevaluation of the philosophy of the master… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531752
- Language: English
