philosophy

Ayn Rand challenged the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion.".

Examines ten errors in modern thought and shows how they have led to serious consequences in our everyday lives. Tells how they came about, how to avoid them, and how to counter their negative effects.

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play.

This is a textbook in synoptic philosophy. It is an invitation to ponder, in the largest possible perspective, the weightier, more stubborn problems of human existence.

Although focusing on the philosophy of education, this book provides a three-dimensional introduction to educational ideas.

Comphensive and authoritative one-volume dictionary. It offers the most comprehensive entries on major philosophers.

One hundred famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified, and includes key quotations to provide a sense of style and approach.

The Story of Philosophy gives not only the ideas and philosophical systems of such world-famnous "monarchs of the mind" as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, Locke, and others of similar stature, but their flesh-and-blood biographies. Not only the titans of older days but the most famous modern philosophers are here present and illuminated--including Bergson, Croce, Russell, and Dewey. The book also examines the philosophers' setting in their own time and place, and their influence on our modern intellectual heritage.