The Metaphysics of Ping Pong
This brilliant and highly entertaining book is ping pong's answer to Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance which I read in the 1970s…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy
ON LOVE
Luc Ferry is a French philosopher who has also served as Minister for Youth, National Education and Research in the French government. His collaborator Claude…… Read More »
Taking Appearance Seriously
Readers will have seen that Henri Bortoft died at the end of last year. In this his last book following his earlier The Wholeness of…… Read More »
Forging a Human Future
Erika Erdmann was the editor of a periodical that used to be on our exchange list - Humankind Advancing. She died in 2006 at the…… Read More »
Wine & Philosophy
Part of the same series, subtitled a symposium on thinking and drinking. The association between wine and philosophy goes right back to its Greek origins…… Read More »
What is This thing Called Metaphysics?
Second edition of this excellent introduction to metaphysics aimed principally at university students but which can profitably be read by the general reader new to…… Read More »
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF UNIVERSALISM
This book offers a comprehensive philosophy of the universe. At these words one's heart sinks. Here is yet another elaborate metaphysical cloud castle which seeks…… Read More »
The Earth is our Home
Subtitled 'Mary Midgley's critique and reconstruction of evolution and its meanings', this book serves as an excellent introduction to the principal themes of her work.…… Read More »
Practical Philosophy
A significant volume in the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, which celebrated its Silver Jubilee last year. Practical philosophy is distinguished from…… Read More »
Russell
I have more than a shelf of Russell in my library, and this new volume is on the technical end. There is a biographical essay…… Read More »