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Francis Schaeffer (Bitesize Biography)
We may call him a prophet for his prescient analysis of trends in philosophy that explain where we are today; we may call him an apologist; less accurately, though popular articles and publishers’ blurbs delight in it, he may be called a philosopher. Fundamentally though, Francis Schaeffer rejoiced in being a pastor and evangelist. That is how he began, and through many twists and turns, that is what he remained to the end. Read more...
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
Not only an evolutionary history of consciousness but also an attempt to explain the 'Meaning of Life'. Read more...
Turing: A Natural Philosopher
Influenced by his codebreaking work in World War II, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. This text provides a critical analysis of Turing's developing thought, relating it to his life and to the more recent ideas of Roger Penrose. Read more...
The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre versus Camus
Existentialism meets the philosophy of the Absurd; they should have been a dream-team. It turned into a duel to the death. Read more...
Love in the Holy Quran
The author treats, in a simple and accessible style with reader-friendly and teaching-friendly features, not only of love of God and love of the neighbour, but also much more, all based entirely on the Holy Qur’an. Read more...
Charles Simeon: An ordinary pastor of extraordinary influence
Pastor of but one church all his working life in a small university town, Charles Simeon sowed seeds that continue to reproduce themselves throughout the world. Read more...
Locke on Personal Identity
John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves - yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In his new book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Read more...
The Closed Commercial State
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Read more...
Journal of Modern Wisdom
It’s time to put wisdom back on the agenda – so says a radical new collection of essays from leading public thinkers, including Lord Richard Layard, Theodore Dalrymple and Judith Rich Harris. Read more...
Socrates Vs. Jesus: The Struggle for the Meaning of Life
In this intellectual broadside, iconoclastic popular sociologist Steve Fuller reclaims Jesus as a philosophical thinker – and one who really puts his money where his mouth is. Read more...
Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009
The diocese of Ely, formed out of the huge diocese of Lincoln, was established in 1109 in St Etheldreda's Isle of Ely, and the ancient Abbey became Ely Cathedral Priory. Read more...
The Mystery of the Last Supper
For hundreds of years, we thought we knew what happened during Jesus' last days. Read more...
Practical Tortoise Raising and other philosophical essays
Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. Read more...
Diversity and Pluralism in Islam
For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Read more...
Do Llamas Fall in Love?
In this stunning sequel to his bestselling philosophy books, Can a Robot be Human? and What's Wrong with Eating People, Peter Cave once again engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. Read more...
The Owl and his Boy
Imagine you’re the headmaster of an idyllic prep school in rural England when you notice one day the school cat is behaving rather strangely, and then you start receiving telephone calls from an owl. Read more...
The Christian West and its Singers
The tradition of Western music has become the most influential in the world. Read more...
Politics and the Imagination
In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Read more...
This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes
An entertaining introduction to logic and reasoning, packed with puzzles and thought experiments for the reader to try. Read more...
Literary Semantics
Literary Semantics develops an original, simple but philosophically potent idea into a theory for the human sciences covering philosophy, logic, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, morality, religion, neurology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, history and education. Read more...
A Study in Survival: Conan Doyle Solves the Final Problem
Here is dramatic new evidence for the survival of our individual personalities after death. Read more...
Conversations on Ethics
Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgments objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid what is wrong? Read more...
Humanism
Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? Read more...
Lonesome
'There is another loneliness', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: 'Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought'. Read more...
