Julian Baggini

Collects one hundred philosophical puzzles that encourage readers to seek their own conclusions about a broad spectrum of moral, social, and personal issues.

100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

The Pig that Wants to be Eaten

The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished

A Global History of Philosophy

How the World Thinks

A riveting and profound exploration of what the 'self' actually is, by one of the world's best-loved popular philosophers.

The Ego Trick

Do you think of atheists as immoral pessimists who live their lives without meaning, purpose, or values? Think again! Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral.

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

Peter S. Fosl

A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

The Philosopher's Toolkit

Stephen Law

Barry Loewer

the 50 most thought-provoking philosophies, each explained in half a minute

30-second philosophies

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.

Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher?

The Godless Gospel

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 philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of nature—human nature in particular. The Great Guide is an engaging and eye-opening account of how Hume's thought should serve as the basis for a complete approach to life. In this enthralling book, Julian Baggini masterfully interweaves biography with intellectual history and philosophy to give us a complete vision of Hume's guide to life. He follows Hume on his life's journey, literally walking in the great philosopher's footsteps as Baggini takes readers to the places that inspired Hume the most, from his family estate near the Scottish border to Paris, where, as an older man, he was warmly embraced by French society. Baggini shows how Hume put his philosophy into practice in a life that blended reason and passion, study and leisure, and relaxation and enjoyment. The Great Guide includes 145 Humean maxims for living well, on topics ranging from the meaning of success and the value of travel to friendship, facing death, identity, and the importance of leisure. This book shows how life is far richer with Hume as your guide.

What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

The Great Guide

The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains difficult concepts in an easily accessible manner, and addresses the use and application of these concepts Proven useful to philosophy students at both beginning and advanced levels

Jeremy Stangroom

The author of the international bestseller "The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten" and his fellow founding editor of "The Philosophers Magazine" have some thought-provoking, challenging, and surprising questions about thinking.

The Ultimate Philosophical Quiz Book

Do You Think What You Think You Think?

A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy’s most famous – and most mind-bending – ideas I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge? 30-SECOND PHILOSOPHIES takes a revolutionary approach to getting a grip on the 50 most significant schools of philosophy. The book challenges leading thinkers to quit fretting about the meaning of meaning for a while and explain the most complex philosophical ideas – using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a metaphorical image. Here, in one unique volume, you have the chance to pick the potted brains of our leading philosophers and understand complex concepts such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative without ending up in a darkened room with an ice pack on your head.

The 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute

30-Second Philosophies

Antonia Macaro

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 cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage - aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro - have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will, spirituality and independence, this book - their first together - expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of existential unease, metaphysical trauma and - for instance - how much we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we'd all like to hear: what is the good life, and how we can live it?

A Guide to Living

The Shrink and the Sage

I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?30-Second Philsophies takes a revolutionary approach to getting a grip on the 50 most significant schools of philosophy. The book challenges leading thinkers to quit fretting about the meaning of meaning for a while and explain the most complex philosophical ideas – using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a metaphorical image. Here, in one unique volume, you have the chance to pick the potted brains of our leading philosophers and understand complex concepts such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative without ending up in a darkened room with an ice pack on your head.

30-second Philosophies

Julian Baggini provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad arguments people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.

And 99 Other Bad Arguments

The Duck that Won the Lottery

Todos tenemos un fuerte sentido del yo, que se mantiene inalterable con el transcurso de los años. Sin embargo, paradójicamente, en ocasiones no es fácil identificarnos con ese "yo" pasado, el de nuestra infancia o juventud, y a ratos puede parecernos incluso que es otra persona. Hay abundantes trabajos de estudiosos en los ámbitos de la filosofía, la psicología y la neurociencia que nos pueden ayudar a resolver esos enigmas. Sin embargo, gran parte de toda esa brillante literatura sobre el tema escrita por especialistas parece evitar tratar la cuestión fundamental: ¿qué significa ser yo? A través de entrevistas a hombres y mujeres que han sufrido experiencias transformadoras que han afectado a su identidad, el autor expone casos como el de la reencarnación, el cambio de sexo o el efecto de la demencia en familiares de personas afectadas para brindarnos idea de que el tema del yo no es un asunto abstracto, académico, sino una cuestión real que afecta a vidas reales.

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