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Wer bin ich - und wenn ja wie viele? Wer bin ich - und wenn ja wie viele? Richard David Precht „Fragen zu stellen ist eine Fähigkeit, die man nie verlernen sollte.“ (Richard David Precht) Eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt der Philosophie – Richard David Prechts Buch bietet Antworten auf … OL15352788W
The Signal and the Noise The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was th… OL16700318W
Art and Knowledge Art and Knowledge Young, James O. This is an interesting, as well as controversial, exploration of what art is and why it is valuable. Young reflects on the essence of art and argues that it provides insight into human nature. This t… OL16989715W
From knowledge to wisdom From knowledge to wisdom Nicholas Maxwell From Knowledge to Wisdom argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in science and the humanities. The outcome would be a kind o… OL1827165W
Comment la vérité et la réalité furent inventées Comment la vérité et la réalité furent inventées Paul Jorion Conçu comme une contribution à l'anthropologie des savoirs, cet essai propose un exercice de décentrement radical par rapport à nos habitudes de pensée. Les notions de vérité (née en Grèce au IVe siè… OL19835441W
The True and the Evident The True and the Evident Franz Brentano First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano's posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz, edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano's influential lect… OL19908065W
The Conscious Mind The Conscious Mind David J. Chalmers The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory is an extended study of the problem of consciousness. After setting up the problem, David Chalmers argues that a reductive explanation of conscio… OL2954764W
Bounds of Reason Bounds of Reason Emili Steuerman This is a highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. It clearly explains and examines the central problem of the debate: whether the use of reason is an e… OL8096199W
Foresight Foresight Deni Loveridge "Since the early 1990s interest in foresight has undergone one of its periodic resurgences and has led to a rapid growth in formal foresight studies backed by governments and transnational institutio… OL9352101W