Andrew Pessin: 8 books
The 60-Second Philosopher
Expand your Mind on a Minute or so a Day!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Philosophy means "love of knowledge" in Greek. Unfortunately, as much as we all love knowledge, we don’t all have the time to spend acquiring it! This fabulous little book provides the perfect antidote. Split into 60 one-minute chapters, Andrew Pessin offers you a snippet of philosophical...
Uncommon Sense
The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums—by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don’t merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful...
The Jewish God Question
What Jewish Thinkers Have Said about God, the Book, the People, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Jewish God Question explores what a diverse array of Jewish thinkers have said about the interrelated questions of God, the Book, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel. Exploring topics such as the existence of God, God’s relationship to the world and to history, how to read the Bible, Jewish...
The God Question
What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Does God Exist? Without doubt, the greatest question to face humanity in its history, the controversy rages on today with a recent spate of books on both sides of the divide. However, this debate is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, our greatest philosophers, from Aristotle to Nietzsche, have sought...
The Study of Philosophy
A Text with Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This seventh edition of The Study of Philosophy presents a comprehensive treatment of the major fields and figures of philosophy alongside primary readings by seminal thinkers to fuel debate and further study.
New features of this edition include
a substantive account of philosophical...
The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the Meaning of Meaning
Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the "Meaning of Meaning"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning, thought and knowledge were shocking. This work contains writings on the subject of Twin Earth.
Gray Matters: Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Gray Matters is a thorough examination of the main topics in recent philosophy of mind. It aims at surveying a broad range of issues, not all of which can be subsumed under one position or one philosopher's theory. In this way, the authors avoid neglecting interesting issues out of allegiance to a given theory of mind.
by Andrew Pessin
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
An historical murder mystery based on real events.Who would want to murder the world’s most famous philosopher?Turns out: nearly everyone.In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher. Though he was the world’s leading philosopher, his...