Ralph Hertwig & Thorsten Pachur 
Taming Uncertainty [EPUB ebook] 

Thomas Paine was a hugely influential revolutionary pamphleteer, whose writings were instrumental in bringing about some of the greatest political changes the world has seen. Paine”s enduring import …

The topics covered in this volume, originally published in 1973, include the need for a more adequate concept or definition of education, the issue of whether indoctrination is compatible with …

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of …

The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Platos identification of ultimate goodness and beauty, together representing the eternal form. …

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (presentism), advanced by Nikk Effingham, the present i …

"Unhappy Far-Off Things" by using Lord Dunsany invites readers into a spell binding realm in which goals and fact intertwine. As a grasp of fable and a pioneer in the genre, Lord Dunsany …

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes” philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devo …

Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient a …

Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. …

The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou”s philosophy, rather than its position within …