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Spinoza och jag
Ateisten, rationalisten och filosofins prins. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), en av de första och främsta upplysningstänkarna, har gått under många namn. Spinoza skapade ett av …
The Mind-Body Problem
The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman s pursuit of carnal pleasure and the philosophy that gets in the way. When Renee Feuer goes to college, one of the first …
Incompleteness
A portrait of the eminent twentieth-century mathematician discusses his groundbreaking theorem of incompleteness, contributions within the famous Vienna circle, relationships with …
Data in Society
Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of …
Spinoza och jag
1656 bannlystes filosofen Baruch Spinoza från Amsterdams judiska samfund. I ett klassrum på Manhattans Lower East Side år 1967 lyssnar Rebecca Goldstein hur lärarinnan på hennes …
Properties of Light
With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us "one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and …
The Blacker the Ink
Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and …
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Psychologist Cass Seltzer's book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed 'the atheist with a soul', Cass's sudden celebrity has upended …
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
From the author of The Mind-Body Problem: a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason. At the center is Cass Seltzer, a …
Plato at the Googleplex
What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the …
Betraying Spinoza
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in …
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Psychologist Cass Seltzer's book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed 'the atheist with a soul', Cass's sudden celebrity has upended …