Provides a guide for starting a "philosophy dinner club," a club that meets to discuss philosophy and cook food from each philosopher's home country.
In fact, as Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke show in this book, it’s difficult to imagine a more philosophically charged act than eating.
The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany.
The contributors offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of the work's literary form, themes, and cultural background.
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The next point was to determine the place and source of motion, i.e. whether the table moved the hand, or the hand moved the table, and for this purpose indicators were constructed. One of these consisted of a light lever, ...
A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl ... SEE ALSO 1.5 Invalidity 3.19 Question-begging 3.13 Genetic fallacy 4.5 Conditional/biconditional READING ☆ S. Morris Engel, With Good Reason: An ...
There were detailed consequences of Lorenz's theoretical analysis that posed an experimental challenge to Zeeman. On the assumption that the source of the radiation constituting the sodium D-lines is vibrating charged particles, ...
3.2 Structure of the IPS2 gamestorming approach As shown in figure 6, the developed IPS2-specific gamestorming approach consists of a series where two gamestorming sessions are played in a row. Both sessions have a clear opening, ...
Authoritative and highly readable, this book is a vital reference tool for all those wishing to improve their understanding of some of the world’s most fascinating intellectual figures.
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family.