Posted Thu, 01/31/2013 - 5:42pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2013
Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the Universiry of Bern, Switzerland. He is author of three books and editor of three other books. This book was a gift from my philosopher friend who also gave me book 484. Read more
Posted Thu, 12/27/2012 - 12:46pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2012
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was “perhaps the foremost western interpreter of Eastern thought” (according to the Los Angles Times). His work continues to be a source of wisdom and inspiration for new generations of readers. This book consists of edited (by his son Mark Watts) transcripts of Alan Watts’ radio series on KPFA in Berkeley. Each chapter was a radio talk. Read more
Posted Sat, 12/22/2012 - 4:50pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2012
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Simon Van Booy is the editor of three philosophy books: Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter. He has written for The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and NPR. He is involved in the Rutgers Early College Humanities program for young adults in underserved communities. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Fri, 12/14/2012 - 1:50pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2012
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include Mind: A Brief Introduction (2004), Consciousness and Language (2002), Rationality in Action (2001, 2003) and Freedom and Neurology (2007). This was a gift book from a philosopher friend. Read more
Posted Tue, 07/17/2012 - 9:26am by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2012
Journalist Stephen S. Hall has written about the intersection of science and society in books, magazines, and essays for 25 years, mostly for The New York Times Magazine. He has received numerous awards for his work. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:49am by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2012
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillian
John Hick (1922-2012), a world-renowned philosopher of religion, taught in the U.K. and the U.S. and lectured in many countries. His Gifford lectures – An Interpretation of Religion – received the Grawemeyer Award for new religious thinking. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Fri, 05/04/2012 - 11:50am by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2012
Bruce Sheiman, a student of philosophy and theology for 30 years, records in this book the soul-searching of an atheist who wants to believe in God, an “aspiring theist,” sympathetic to religious aspirations. He discusses religion with an impartiality and insight not found among partisan religious or secular observers. Sheiman argues that we achieve our fullest humanity only in religion. Read more
Posted Thu, 12/22/2011 - 6:54pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2011
Jacob Needleman, educated at Harvard, Yale and Freiburg, Germany, is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has written over 30 books as of 2009. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) This book was a gift. Read more
Posted Sun, 12/11/2011 - 7:58pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2011
Jacob Needleman, educated at Harvard, Yale and Freiburg, Germany, is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has written over 30 books as of 2009. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Tue, 04/26/2011 - 7:03pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2011
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Predrag Cicovacki is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Peace Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, MA. He is author of ‘Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life‘ and ‘Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity.’ He wrote the Introduction and summaries of the 16 Schweitzer Essays in this book. Read more
