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  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Know-It-All Society

    Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    Winner • National Council of Teachers of English - George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageThe “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) returns with a clear-eyed and timely critique of our culture’s narcissistic obsession with thinking that “we” know and “they” don’t.Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Nature of Truth, second edition

    Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

    Edición de Michael P. Lynch, Jeremy Wyatt, Nathan Kellen, Junyeol Kim ...
    The definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters.The question "What is truth?" is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a "post-truth" society in which lies are tolerated and facts are ignored. If we want to understand why truth matters, we first need to ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • In Praise of Reason

    Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edición de Alessandra Tanesini, Michael P. Lynch ...
    Polarisation, intransigence and dogmatism in political and moral debate have in recent years threatened to overwhelm many Western-style democracies, where for centuries reasoned argument has been a hallmark feature of tackling disagreement. For many people, this marks a worrying deterioration in the moral and political climate, threatening to create a divisive environment of "us" versus "them".In ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

    Edición de Mark Alfano, Michael P. Lynch, Alessandra Tanesini ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages. It is also a topic central to research and discussion in philosophy, applied ethics and religious studies.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility is the first ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Truth as One and Many

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    Narrado por Dan Woren ...

    Completo

    6 hora 31 minutos

    With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia shelf in search of answers. We just open our browsers, type ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Know-It-All Society

    Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture

    de Michael P. Lynch ...
    Narrado por William Sarris ...

    Completo

    4 hora 42 minutos

    Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet—where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them—has contributed to the rampant spread of "intellectual arrogance." In this culture, we have come to think that we have ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    The Road Not Taken

    Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

    de Max Boot ...
    Narrado por Henry Strozier ...

    Completo

    27 hora 33 minutos

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times</em... ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    de Danielle Dreilinger ...
    Narrado por Rachel Perry ...

    Completo

    11 hora 18 minutos

    The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD