Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian jackson

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  • POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
    ANNE HASTIE / IAN HASTIE / NEIL JACKSON
    This is an exploration of how the higher functions of the brain can be investigated, evaluated and, possibly, explained. A central theme throughout the book is rationality, since issues requiring rational evaluation confront many people everyday though emotional factors are often more influential in determining action. The book looks at various questions: is it possible to unde...

    $1,040.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF G.W.F. HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
    IAN JACKSON
    Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credited with influencing Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key modern philosophers. That approach is the so-called “He...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF IMMANUEL KANT'S RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF MERE REASON
    IAN JACKSON
    The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging thinkers of all time, but also one of the most important. His Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason takes on two of his central preoccupations – the reasoning powers of the human mind, and religion – and applies the full forc...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF GEOFFREY PARKER'S GLOBAL CRISIS
    IAN JACKSON
    Few historians can claim to have undertaken historical analysis on as grand a scale as Geoffrey Parker in his 2013 work Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. It is a doorstop of a book that surveys the ‘general crisis of the 17th century,’ shows that it was experienced practically throughout the world, and was not merely a European pheno...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF DAVID HUME'S DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION
    JOHN DONALDSON / IAN JACKSON
    David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume’s subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and still is, a persistent topic of philosophical and theological debate. What makes Hume’s text a classic of reasoning, though, ...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF FRANCIS FUKUYAMA'S THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN
    IAN JACKSON / JASON XIDIAS
    Francis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical contex...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF THOMAS PAINE'S COMMON SENSE
    IAN JACKSON
    Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book in US history. An impassioned argument for American independence and for democratic government, Common Sense can c...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN LOCKE'S TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
    JEREMY KLEIDOSTY / IAN JACKSON
    John Locke’s 1689 Two Treatises of Government is a key text in the history of political theory – one whose influence remains marked on modern politics, the American Constitution and beyond. Two Treatises is more than a seminal work on the nature and legitimacy of government. It is also a masterclass in two key critical thinking skills: evaluation and reasoning. Evaluation is al...

    $179.00