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Death in a Shallow PondTheir words
Death in a Shallow Pond is also about a single thought experiment, Peter Singer’s famous thought experiment about a child apparently drowning in a shallow pool of water while nobody else is around.
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How to Say NoTheir words
Diogenes the Cynic was a real character and this book, How to Say No, is in the Princeton series ‘Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers‘, which was commissioned by the editor Rob Tempio.
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Looking for TheophrastusTheir words
The book is called Looking for Theophrastus and it’s by Laura Beatty.
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Thinking to Some PurposeTheir words
Which makes the point that books like Thinking to Some Purpose have a huge potential effect on society.
30 November 2021
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FreeTheir words
There’s a passage near the end of Free where Ypi describes how this book was originally going to be an overtly philosophical one about overlapping ideas of freedom in liberal and socialist traditions, but that as soon as she started writing it, the abstract ideas turned into people she knew, people who were the product of social relations for which they were not responsible.
2 July 2021
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RepublicTheir words
Now, that doesn’t give you any idea of why it’s called Republic.
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On LibertyTheir words
On Liberty was published in 1859, the same year as the Origin of Species but wasn’t entirely eclipsed by it.
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Philosophical InvestigationsTheir words
These ideas then reach their most popular version in the Philosophical Investigations, this posthumously published book.
4 December 2020
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FactfulnessTheir words
His book Factfulness, which was published posthumously—his son and daughter-in-law completed the book—is very optimistic, so completely different in tone from Kahneman’s.
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Black Box ThinkingTheir words
The title, Black Box Thinking, comes from the black boxes which are standardly included in every passenger aircraft, so that if an accident occurs there’s a recording of the flight data and a recording of the audio communications as the plane goes down.
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The Art of Thinking ClearlyTheir words
The Art of Thinking Clearly is a very short and punchy book, while Tom’s is longer, and more of a textbook.
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Critical ThinkingTheir words
Of the books I’ve discussed, the ones that are most obviously aimed at that are Black Box Thinking, the Dobelli book, and Tom Chatfield’s Critical Thinking.
25 November 2020
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MetazoaTheir words
This new book, Metazoa, is about animal minds and the birth of consciousness.
24 June 2020
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The Meaning of TravelTheir words
Emily Thomas’s original and fun book The Meaning of Travel is my top pick in a year when travel is going to be difficult.
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Mean GirlTheir words
If you want to understand what’s lurking behind the cruelty we’re seeing in the US political arena, try Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan.
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How to Live a Good LifeTheir words
An antidote to Rand’s is How to Live a Good Life, which is a collection of fifteen essays about practical moral philosophy from Buddhism to humanism, taking in Stoicism, Christian ethics, Pragmatism, Existentialism and other schools along the way.
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Free SpeechTheir words
First published in 2016, but getting more relevant every day, Timothy Garton Ash’s Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World is the best book I’ve read on the topic by far, written with great elegance, and filled with fascinating examples.
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The PlagueTheir words
Finally, it may seem a cliché to pick this book, but Albert Camus’s The Plague has justifiably become a bestseller this year.
29 November 2019
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Becoming BeauvoirTheir words
Yes, let’s start with what I think is a remarkable book, Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick.
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Socrates in LoveTheir words
I found Socrates in Love completely fascinating.
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A Theory of the AphorismTheir words
It’s A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui.
15 November 2018
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On balance there has not been a better time in history for philosophy than the Internet age.Their words
I wouldn’t want to give the impression that everything about doing philosophy online has been wonderful, but on balance there hasn’t been a better time in history for the subject.
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The experience of women philosophers online has not been uniformly good – some have received abusive and threatening messages, and this is worrying.
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The Internet gives a forum to philosophical topics that some philosophy departments neglect.Their words
The Internet has also provided a forum in which to discuss topics that don’t necessarily get the attention they deserve within some philosophy departments.
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We are living in a golden age for public philosophy.Their words
We are living in a Golden Age for public philosophy, philosophy presented to a general audience rather than a specialised academic one.
18 July 2018
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The GrasshopperTheir words
It’s called The Grasshopper because the central character is, in fact, a grasshopper!
13 April 2018
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Why Buddhism is TrueTheir words
Some people might wonder why I’m choosing Why Buddhism is True as a philosophy book, because it sounds like it’s not quite that.
28 November 2016
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The PathTheir words
The Path is very interesting because it’s written for a popular audience.
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