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  • Disagreement

    by Bryan Frances ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who disagree with you are just as smart and thoughtful as you are - in fact, you know that often they are smarter and more informed. But ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Can We Know Anything?

    A Debate

    by Bryan Frances, Michael Huemer ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether – and how – we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies.Frances argues that we lack knowledge because, for example, we cannot rule out the possibility that we are brains in vats being artificially stimulated in such a way as to create an ... Read more

    Was $42.99 USD Now $37.99 USD

  • Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil

    A Comprehensive Introduction

    by Bryan Frances ...
    Suffering that is not coupled with any redeeming good is one of our world’s more troubling, apparent glitches. It is particularly vexing for any theist who believes that the world was created by a supremely morally good, knowledgeable, and powerful god. Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil: A Comprehensive Introduction is among the first book-length discussions of theistic approaches to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Epistemic Consequences of Paradox

    by Bryan Frances ...
    Series series Elements in Epistemology
    By pooling together exhaustive analyses of certain philosophical paradoxes, we can prove a series of fascinating results regarding philosophical progress, agreement on substantive philosophical claims, knockdown arguments in philosophy, the wisdom of philosophical belief (quite rare, because the knockdown arguments show that we philosophers have been wildly wrong about language, logic, truth, or ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • An Agnostic Defends God

    How Science and Philosophy Support Agnosticism

    by Bryan Frances ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressive—if maddeningly hidden—evidence for the existence of God. Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the familiar sources of evidence, but they generate their own partial defense of theism.Bryan Frances, a philosopher with a graduate degree in physics, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • More than Matter?

    What Humans Really Are

    by Professor Keith Ward ...
    'The question of what it is to be a human person is the biggest intellectual question of our day.'Keith Ward has taught philosophy and theology in British universities for the past 40 years, and he is now weighing in on a major intellectual battle: whether human persons are purely materialistic - nothing but matter - or whether there is another, deeply valuable part of us, which transcends our ... Read more

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  • Relativity of the Half-Being of Representation - from Philosophy to Mathematics and Science (Logic as Science)

    by Mihajlo Bugarinovic ...
    Is time-travel one of the unanswered questions of physics or philosophy? In metaphysics, the question doesnt even exist, in physics, perhaps.Relativity of the Half-Being of Representation is the first proof of its kind of the non-existence of time travel. To achieve a logical feat of such scope, it instead concentrates on its discoveries of parallel worlds just as concrete as unattainability of ... Read more

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  • Free Will and Will to Power

    by Mike ...
    Are you free, or are you a machine that suffers from a delusion that it's free? Free will is perhaps the most important subject of all because if we are authentically free, scientific materialism is ipso facto false, and the world is in urgent need of a revolutionary paradigm shift. This book shows that free will has a most unexpected advocate – mathematics. Only in a mathematical universe can we ... Read more

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  • Mind and Life, Form and Content

    by Mike ...
    What is form? What is content? You cannot understand what life and mind are unless you can answer these two fundamental questions of ontology. ... Read more

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  • Illuminism Contra Discordianism

    by Brother Cato ...
    “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” – Wittgenstein. We use language to think, to talk to each other, to write, to form beliefs, religions, philosophies, and so on. But what if we are using the wrong language? Do we have “wrong thoughts” because we are using the wrong language? Do we have wrong religions and philosophies for exactly the same ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Understanding Essay Writing: A Guide To Writing Essays By Someone Who Grades Them

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    A concise guide on how to write a good essay, written by someone who has graded a heck of a lot of them. It contains essay writing strategies, helpful tips, and a step-by-step process guide. The second edition has a sample essay and extensive examples of pragraph structure and paraphrasing. Learn how to get the highest grade possible for your work and avoid the mistakes that so many students make. ... Read more

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  • Finite and Infinite Games

    by James Carse ...
    “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD