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1) The Philosophy Book: From the Vedas to the New Atheists : 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy

Author

Bassham, Gregory

Series

Sterling Milestones

Publisher

Sterling, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

Description

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"Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief, engaging entries cover a range of topics and cultures, from the Hindu Vedas and Plato's theory of forms to Ockham's razor, Pascal's wager, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, existentialism, feminism,...

2) The ultimate Harry Potter and philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles

Series

Blackwell philosophy and popculture

Publisher

Wiley

Pub. Date

c2010

Language

English

Description

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"The Ultimate Harry Potter: Hogwarts for Muggles, is a fresh and distinctive report on the great ideas in the series. All the authors of these chapters have had the advantage of thinking through their chosen issues, and writing up their conclusions after the entire Potter storyline was complete, and Rowling had even had her say in public about things that never made it into the pages of the official texts. The philosophers and other top Harry Potter...