Now I'm getting the chance to read books I didn't have time for before. Think of me whenever you see the slogan "So many books, so little time!" Now I've got the time.  Cheers, Fred.

Philosophy & Theology

Who or What Is God? And Other Investigations

Posted Tue, 12/29/2009 - 1:28pm by fred
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Book Number: 
334
Date Fred Read: 
December 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
John Hick
Total Pages: 
194
Publisher: 
Seabury Books
Year: 
2009

John Hick, a well-known philosopher of religion and a theologian, is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, Univ. of Birmingham UK, and a Vice-President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion and of the World Congress of Faiths. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.)  Read more

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Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, & Language

Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:11am by fred
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Book Number: 
326
Date Fred Read: 
October 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Maxwell Bennett
Author: 
Daniel Dennett
Author: 
Peter Hacker
Author: 
John Searle
Author: 
Daniel Robinson
Total Pages: 
193
Publisher: 
Columbia University Press
Year: 
2009

Maxwell Bennett (Sydney) is a neuroscientist. Daniel Dennett (Tufts), Peter Hacker (Oxford) and John Searle (Berkeley) are philosophers. Daniel Robinson is both. This book is a “four-sided” debate that Robinson introduces and provides a superb critical summary. The same friend who loaned me book 325 by Robinson lent me this book.  Read more

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Consciousness and Mental Life

Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 9:41am by fred
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Book Number: 
325
Date Fred Read: 
October 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Daniel Robinson
Total Pages: 
210
Publisher: 
Columbia University Press
Year: 
2007

Daniel Robinson is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown and is on the Oxford philosophy faculty. He has written 50 books, won many awards, and was the main consultant for PBS and BBC for the award-winning programs The Brain and the Mind. His 110 lectures for the Teaching Company are among its most successful. (See also book 326.)  Read more

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The Art of Loving

Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 9:37pm by fred
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Book Number: 
315
Date Fred Read: 
July 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Erich Fromm
Total Pages: 
112
Publisher: 
Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 15 Anv edition
Year: 
2006

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was an internationaly renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This book was first published in 1963.  Read more

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Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers – From Plato to the Present

Posted Thu, 05/07/2009 - 2:03pm by fred
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Book Number: 
303
Date Fred Read: 
May 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
John W. Cooper
Total Pages: 
346
Publisher: 
Baker Academic
Year: 
2006

John W. Cooper (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is an ordained Christian Reformed minister who teaches philosophical theology at the Calvin Theological Seminary and has written two other theology books.  Read more

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The Courage to Be

Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 2:25pm by fred
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Book Number: 
296
Date Fred Read: 
April 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Paul Tillich
Total Pages: 
190
Publisher: 
Yale University Press
Year: 
2000

Paul Tillich (1886-1965), philosopher and theologian, taught in several German Universities before he fled the Nazis to America, where he taught at the Union Theological Seminary, Harvard, and the Univ. of Chicago. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.)  Read more

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Evil and the God of Love

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 8:57am by fred
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Book Number: 
279
Date Fred Read: 
November 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
John Hick
Author: 
Marilyn McCord Adams, Foreword
Total Pages: 
386
Publisher: 
Palgrave Macmillan; Revised edition
Year: 
2007

This book, first published in 1966, was used by John Hick as a theology textbook. An detailed 5-pp Table of Contents compensates for a slim index, but his use of footnotes on each page is excellent. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) See his web site: http://www.johnhick.org.uk/.  Read more

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There Is A God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 7:37am by fred
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Book Number: 
272
Date Fred Read: 
October 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Anthony Flew
Author: 
Roy Abraham Varghese
Total Pages: 
158
Publisher: 
HarperOne
Year: 
2008

In 1950 Anthony Flew set the agenda for modern atheism with his renowned widely-published essay “Theology and Falsification.” He has been a professor of philosophy at the universities of Keele, Oxford, Aberdeen and Reading and published more than 30 books.  Read more

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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 2:14pm by fred
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Book Number: 
256
Date Fred Read: 
July 2008
Fred's Rating: 
1
Author: 
John Allen Paulos
Total Pages: 
149
Publisher: 
Hill and Wang
Year: 
2007

John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple Univ. His 1989 bestseller Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences was greatly enjoyed by a mathematician friend who gave me this book to review. Amazon.com lists over 20 books by Paulos in English.  Read more

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The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 1:31pm by fred
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Book Number: 
253
Date Fred Read: 
June 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Alfred North Whitehead
Total Pages: 
198
Publisher: 
BiblioBazaar
Year: 
2007

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was an internationally renowned philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. Dozens of books have been written about him and his “Process” philosophy and theology. His most famous treatise was book 195 Process and Reality. For his books I've read, click on his name.)  Read more

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