Ian Macpherson: 4 books

Introduced by John Burns. This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacifism compels them to opt out of ‘civilisation’, take to the hills to live as fugitives in the wild. Plainly and simply told, Wild...

L’autore afferma che “il predicatore deve portare un peso”; poi continua: «È proprio l’evidenza che egli porta questo peso a costituire una garanzia affinché egli predichi. Un biografo di Phillips Brooks narra che, un momento prima di salire sul pulpito, egli “appariva fisicamente aggravato...

The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....

Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory. Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...