According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical p...(展开全部)

Cole South and I recently wrote a book on how to think about poker. We wrote in a manner we wished someone would have done when we first grind the games. We won't hesitate to say it is currently the BEST POKER EDUCATIONAL TOOL in the community. After reading the content, maybe you will realize that perhaps, making six figures playing poker isn't as hard as it sounds. Let's use ...(展开全部)

Cole South and I recently wrote a book on how to think about poker. We wrote in a manner we wished someone would have done when we first grind the games. We won't hesitate to say it is currently the BEST POKER EDUCATIONAL TOOL in the community. After reading the content, maybe you will realize that perhaps, making six figures playing poker isn't as hard as it sounds. Let's use ...(展开全部)

Raised by an unstable father who keeps the family constantly on the move, Sam Border hasn't been in a classroom since the second grade. He's always been the rock for his younger brother Riddle, who stopped speaking long ago and instead makes sense of the world through his strange and intricate drawings. It's said that the two boys speak with one voice-and that voice is Sam's. T...(展开全部)

Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology, Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of neurophysiology and laboratory experiment for the study of emo...(展开全部)

Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology, Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of neurophysiology and laboratory experiment for the study of emo...(展开全部)

How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that evidence. The argument, which takes inspiration from William James' ideas in 'The Will to Believe', proceeds from tw...(展开全部)