Posted Sat, 08/14/2010 - 2:43pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2010
Publisher:
Signature Press
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is one of those rare authors whose last name has become an adjective because of this work, published in 1532 and banned in 1557 when the Catholic Inquisition made its first Index of Forbidden Books. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Fri, 08/13/2010 - 4:12pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2010
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 Process and Reality (book 195). For his books I've read, click on his name. Read more
Posted Sun, 06/06/2010 - 4:43pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2010
Publisher:
Book Sales, Inc
Ben Dupre read classics a Exeter College, Oxford, Before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He has more than 20 years experience of elucidating difficult ideas for a popular audience. This book is from a series of “50 ------ Ideas You Really Need to Know.” This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Tue, 12/29/2009 - 2:28pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 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
Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 11:11am by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2009
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
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
Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:41am by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2009
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
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
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:37pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2009
Publisher:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 15 Anv edition
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
Posted Thu, 05/07/2009 - 3:03pm by fred
Publisher:
Baker Academic
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
Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 3:25pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
Publisher:
Yale University Press
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
Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 9:57am by fred
Date Fred Read:
November 2008
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan; Revised edition
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
