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Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the core of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically.In this brief guide to living a more rational life, acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do. The scientific method has served humankind well in its quest to see things as they really are, and underpinning the scientific method are core principles that can help us all navigate modern life more confidently. Discussing the nature of truth and uncertainty, the role of doubt, the pros and cons of simplification, the value of guarding against bias, the importance of evidence-based thinking, and more, Al-Khalili shows how the powerful ideas at the heart of the scientific method are deeply relevant to the complicated times we live in and the difficult choices we make.Read this book and discover the joy of science. It will empower you to think more objectively, see through the fog of your own preexisting beliefs, and lead a more fulfilling life.

Science --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Accuracy and precision. --- Anecdotal evidence. --- Appeal to emotion. --- Availability. --- Behavioural sciences. --- Billionaire. --- Body of knowledge. --- Certainty. --- Chemist. --- Cognitive dissonance. --- Confirmation bias. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Convenience. --- Cosmological constant. --- Cultural relativism. --- Discovery (observation). --- Echinus esculentus. --- Education. --- Efficacy. --- Empathy. --- Empirical evidence. --- Everyday life. --- Explanation. --- Fact. --- Fixation (histology). --- Humility. --- Hypothesis. --- IT Works. --- Ideology. --- Illusory superiority. --- Invention. --- Know thyself. --- Logical reasoning. --- Moral relativism. --- Natural science. --- Nature of Science. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Objectivity (science). --- Observation. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosophy of science. --- Physicist. --- Prediction. --- Prince Charming. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Rationality. --- Real image. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Reproducibility. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientific enterprise. --- Scientific evidence. --- Scientific literacy. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific realism. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Sense of wonder. --- Special relativity. --- Sustainable living. --- Technology. --- The Better Angels of Our Nature. --- The Nature of Truth. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Wishful thinking. --- World view.

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"Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilizationThis book is a breathtaking examination of the two greatest ideas in human history. The first is the idea that the human mind can grasp the universe. The second is the idea that the human mind can grasp itself. Acclaimed philosopher Linda Zagzebski shows how the first unleashed a cultural awakening that swept across the world in the first millennium BCE, giving birth to philosophy, mathematics, science, and virtually all the major world religions. It dominated until the Renaissance, when the discovery of subjectivity profoundly transformed the arts and sciences. This second great idea governed our perception of reality up until the dawn of the twenty-first century.Zagzebski explores how the interplay of the two ideas led to conflicts that have left us ambivalent about the relationship between the mind and the universe, and have given rise to a host of moral and political rifts over the deepest questions human beings face. Should we organize civil society around the ideal of living in harmony with the world or that of individual autonomy? Zagzebski explains how these two powerful ideas continue to divide us today over issues such as abortion, the environment, free speech, and racial and gender identity.This panoramic book reveals what is missing in our conception of ourselves and the world, and imagines a not-too-distant future when a third great idea, the idea that human minds can grasp each other, will help us gain an idea of the whole of reality"-- "In The Two Greatest Ideas, Linda Zagzebski tells the history of two hugely impactful ideas and their crucial role in shaping human culture over the last two thousand years. These ideas, Zagzebski argues, underlie virtually all of the intellectual innovations of human civilization, yet are so simple they are almost invisible. The first idea is that the human mind is capable of grasping the universe. The second is that the human mind is capable of grasping itself. Based on a series of lectures given in 2018 at Soochow University, Zagzebski offers an ambitious, big-history narrative of the emergence and influence of these two ideas and the tension and conflict between them. The idea that the human mind can grasp the universe had a significant influence on culture in many parts of the world in the first millennium BCE, giving rise to physics, mathematics, philosophy, and most major religions. In the early modern period, however, particularly in the West, the idea that the human mind can grasp itself supplanted some of the wider focus and popularity of the idea that human mind can grasp the universe, revealing something important was missing, namely, the subjectivity of minds. This transformation was reflected in radical changes in philosophy, political thought, art, literature, religion, and science. In this book, Zagzebski provides a new frame for understanding the intellectual underpinnings of Western culture and thought through an illuminating exploration of the history and contemporary legacy of these two great ideas (including reflections on their history in Eastern thought). Zagzebski also reveals the deep roots of some familiar divisions in contemporary culture (e.g. autonomy versus harmony, and rights versus responsibilities) as they relate to the great ideas. The book then concludes with a discussion of what reconciling the two great ideas might entail, including the possibility of a third great idea"--

Philosophy of mind. --- Advocacy. --- Ambivalence. --- Analogy. --- Aristotelianism. --- Atheism. --- Availability. --- Awareness. --- Big O notation. --- Brahman. --- Certainty. --- City Of. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Creative work. --- Critique of Pure Reason. --- Culture. --- David Hume. --- Direct evidence. --- Discourse. --- Empiricism. --- Epic poetry. --- Epistemology. --- Ethics. --- Excellence. --- Explanation. --- Flourishing. --- Free will. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Great chain of being. --- Greatness. --- Human nature. --- Humility. --- Idealism. --- Imagination. --- Individual. --- Instant. --- Institution. --- Intersubjectivity. --- Invention. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Logical positivism. --- Major religious groups. --- Megali Idea. --- Metaphysics. --- Modernity. --- Moral absolutism. --- Morality. --- National identity. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Objectivity (science). --- Odor. --- On Virtue. --- Oration on the Dignity of Man. --- Originality. --- Palate. --- Paradigm shift. --- Person. --- Personality. --- Personhood. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Plotinus. --- Political Liberalism. --- Primary/secondary quality distinction. --- Proposition. --- Public morality. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Quantity. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Respect for persons. --- Right to life. --- Science. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-concept. --- Self-governance. --- Self-ownership. --- Sensibility. --- Solidity. --- Subjectivity. --- The Most Excellent. --- The New Science. --- Theism. --- Theology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Transcendental idealism. --- Truth value. --- Underpinning. --- Understanding. --- Uniqueness. --- Universal value. --- Utopia. --- Virtue. --- Vocabulary. --- Well-being.

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"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions--the concepts and categories--that men bring to their existence and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma. This new edition adds a number of previously uncollected pieces that throw further light on Berlin's central philosophical concerns, and a revealing exchange of letters with the editor and Bernard Williams about the genesis of the book.

Philosophy. --- Logic. --- Absurdity. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alasdair MacIntyre. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Analytic philosophy. --- Archimedean point. --- Aristotle. --- Bernard Williams. --- Calculation. --- Categorical proposition. --- Causality. --- Concept. --- Conditional sentence. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Criticism. --- David Hume. --- Direct experience. --- Egalitarianism. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empirical research. --- Eo ipso. --- Epistemology. --- Equality before the law. --- Essence. --- Ethics. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- Fellow. --- Gilbert Ryle. --- Grammar. --- Historical method. --- Human science. --- Hypothesis. --- Idealism. --- Ideology. --- Inductive reasoning. --- Inference. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- J. L. Austin. --- Liberalism. --- Linguistic philosophy. --- Logical positivism. --- Mathematics. --- Metaphor. --- Morality. --- Narrative. --- Natural and legal rights. --- Natural science. --- Nonsense. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- On Liberty. --- Phenomenalism. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical analysis. --- Philosophy of history. --- Physical body. --- Physicist. --- Political philosophy. --- Positivism. --- Prediction. --- Prima facie. --- Principle. --- Probability. --- Psychology. --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Solipsism. --- State of affairs (sociology). --- Stuart Hampshire. --- Suggestion. --- Syllogism. --- Symptom. --- Teleology. --- Terminology. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought and Action. --- Thought. --- Three Critics of the Enlightenment. --- Truism. --- Two Concepts of Liberty. --- Vagueness. --- Verificationism. --- Wolfson College, Oxford. --- Writing.

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The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming.

Political science. --- Liberalism --- Democracy. --- Democracy --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Liberalism. --- Liberalisme. --- Politieke filosofie. --- 89.12 liberalism. --- A Theory of Justice. --- Abstraction. --- Agnosticism. --- Ambiguity. --- Bertrand Russell. --- Brian Barry. --- Bruce Ackerman. --- Calculation. --- Citizenship. --- Civility. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Contingency (philosophy). --- Contradiction. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Cynicism (philosophy). --- Deconstruction. --- Deliberation. --- Deontological ethics. --- Dialectic. --- Dichotomy. --- Disposition. --- Dissent. --- Empiricism. --- Epistemology. --- Foundationalism. --- Government and Opposition. --- Government. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Idealism. --- Ideology. --- Individualism. --- Inference. --- Institution. --- Intelligibility (philosophy). --- Interdependence. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- John Rawls. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Justice as Fairness. --- Kantianism. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Leo Strauss. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Mein Kampf. --- Michael Oakeshott. --- Morality. --- Nihilism. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Obligation. --- Original position. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical anarchism. --- Philosophy. --- Platonism. --- Political Man. --- Political economy. --- Political philosophy. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Practical reason. --- Pragmatism. --- Prejudice. --- Primary goods. --- Princeton University Press. --- Principle. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Reductionism. --- Relativism. --- Rhetoric. --- Robert Nozick. --- Robert Paul Wolff. --- Ronald Dworkin. --- Self-interest. --- Self-ownership. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Social contract. --- Social science. --- Solipsism. --- State of nature. --- Subject (philosophy). --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Thought. --- Uncertainty. --- Utilitarianism. --- Wealth. --- Writing.

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One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it "the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology," and in his autobiography he wrote: "This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle." In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, "friend and foe alike," and from an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology.

Personality --- Typology (Psychology) --- Personality. --- Mental types --- Psychological types --- Type (Psychology) --- Types, Mental --- Types, Psychological --- Characters and characteristics --- Psychology --- Temperament --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Abstraction. --- Academic psychologist. --- Aestheticism. --- Affect (psychology). --- Allegory of the Cave. --- Analogy. --- Analytical psychology. --- Antithesis. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Carl Jung. --- Causality. --- Celtic mythology. --- Certainty. --- Cognition. --- Concept. --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Critical psychology. --- Criticism. --- Delusion. --- Determination. --- Disposition. --- Dissociation (psychology). --- Doctrine. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Empathy. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Externalization. --- Extraversion and introversion. --- Fanaticism. --- Feeling. --- Good and evil. --- Hatred. --- Idealism. --- Imagination. --- Individual psychology. --- Individual. --- Individualism. --- Inference. --- Inferiority complex. --- Intellect. --- Intellectualism. --- Introjection. --- Irrationality. --- Lecture. --- Libido. --- Materialism. --- Mental disorder. --- Morality. --- Multitude. --- Nature. --- Neurosis. --- Nominalism. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Observation. --- Overreaction. --- Paragraph. --- Parapsychology. --- Participation mystique. --- Perception. --- Personal equation. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physiognomy. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Prejudice. --- Principle. --- Protestantism. --- Psyche (psychology). --- Psychiatrist. --- Psychic. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychological Types. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology of the Unconscious. --- Psychology. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Rosicrucianism. --- Self-criticism. --- Sense. --- Spirituality. --- Stupidity. --- Suggestion. --- Symbols of Transformation. --- Symptom. --- Temperament. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Transference. --- Unconsciousness. --- Writing.