Jeffrey Maynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Among his publications are “On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy, ” (Teorema, 2017), “Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias” (Informal Logic, 2015), and “Linguistic Intuitions” (Philosophy Compass, 2013, with Steven Gross).
Steven Gimbel is Professor at Gettysburg College where he held the Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Chair for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities. He is author or editor of eight books including Isn’t that Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy (Routledge, 2017), Einstein: His Space and Times (Yale, 2015), and Einstein’s Jewish Science (Johns Hopkins, 2012). He has four video lecture series in The Teaching Company’s series The Great Courses, including Redefining Reality: Intellectual Implications of Modern Science (2015) and The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics (2020).
13 E-böcker av Steven Gimbel
Gimbel Steven Gimbel: Einstein
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar” The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of …
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Steven Gimbel: Isn’t that Clever
Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this wa …
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€51.35
Steven Gimbel: Isn’t that Clever
Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this wa …
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€51.17
Steven Gimbel: Einstein’s Jewish Science
Finalist for the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award of the Jewish Book Council Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science …
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Jeffrey Maynes & Steven Gimbel: Personal Memories of the Early Analytic Philosophers
Analytic Philosophy began in the first decades of the 20th century at Cambridge with Bertrand Russell, in Vienna with the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, and in Berlin with Hans Reichenbach’s S …
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Stephen Stern & Steven Gimbel: Reclaiming the Wicked Son
Reclaiming the Wicked Son takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers from Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler and views them through a wide range of …
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€34.99
Steven Gimbel & Stephen Stern: Reclaiming the Wicked Son
Reclaiming the Wicked Son: Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers-Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ayn Rand, Peter Singer, Noam Ch …
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€31.78
Thomas Wilk & Steven Gimbel: In on the Joke: The Ethics of Humor and Comedy
Who is morally permitted to tell jokes about Jews? Poles? Women? Only those in the group? Only those who would be punching up? Anyone, since they are just jokes? All of the standard approaches are to …
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€114.95
Thomas Wilk & Steven Gimbel: In on the Joke: The Ethics of Humor and Comedy
Who is morally permitted to tell jokes about Jews? Poles? Women? Only those in the group? Only those who would be punching up? Anyone, since they are just jokes? All of the standard approaches are to …
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€114.95
David DeAngelo & Steven Gimbel: The Chai-Light Zone
The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and re …
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Steven Gimbel: Exploring the Scientific Method
From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the scientific method a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, of …
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