The Importance of What We Care about: Philosophical Essays
6 best books like The Importance of What We Care about: Philosophical Essays (Harry G. Frankfurt): Beyond Good and Evil, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, Discovering Statistics Using R, How to Speak How to Listen
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
| Author | Steven Pinker |
| ISBN | 0525427570 |
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
| Author | Crystal Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 0807050776 |
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism,...
| Author | Andy Field |
| ISBN | 1446200469 |
The R version of Andy Field's hugely popular Discovering Statistics Using SPSS takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R. Like its sister textbook, Discovering Statistics Using R is written in an irreverent style and follows the same ground-breaking structure and...
How to Speak How to Listen
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684846470 |
Listen to How I Speak would have been the better title for Adler's didactic abortion How to Speak, How to Listen. A book that styles itself as a how to speak and listen, there is very little content of this kind. Instead, Adler moralizes ad nauseum on a completely different problem: why it is important to...
