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"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard villages and cosy bed and breakfasts.

In this humorous, inspiring and delightfully British tale, Gary finds solitude and weary limbs bring him closer to the wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Recalling Rousseau's reverie, Bertrand Russell's misery, Plato's love of beauty and Epicurus' joy in...

Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Augustine said that babies deserve to go to hell. Berkeley asserted that matter doesn t exist. Bentham would have argued that Dan Brown is better than Shakespeare. All these statements stem from philosophy s greatest minds. What were they thinking? Overflowing with compelling arguments for the downright strange many of which are hugely influential today popular philosopher Gary Hayden shows that just because something...

Who Watches the Watchmen? could hardly be more timely as we debate the recent leaking of the largest trove of documents in American history. The "WikiLeaks" case drives home the need for what this book lays out: an approach to protecting classified information that goes beyond law enforcement. Gary Ross application of Rational Choice Theory codifies, organizes, and extends what many of us have been trying to do instinctively when dealing with unauthorized disclosures. In Rossdiscussions of "motivations" and "justifications," I see powerful echoes of
what I personally experienced as Director...

Willkommen in der verblüffenden Welt der Paradoxien. Dieses Buch enthüllt, wie seltsam es in der Welt des Denkens aussehen kann. In acht Kapiteln, in denen Sie sich den Kopf zerbrechen werden, nimmt dieses Buch Sie auf eine atemberaubende Reise mit. Ihnen begegnen Dinge, die jeglicher Intuition trotzen oder sogar an das Absurde grenzen. Unterwegs lernen Sie mehr über unmögliche Objekte, das Problem des Zeitreisens und wie Sie das Unerwartete erwarten können.