Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5639 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194215 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1433047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185725 A catchphrase you find yourself using in conversation. A pop song you cant get out of your head. A logo you recognize instantly. Why do some cultural ideas catch fire while others flicker out? Welcome to the study of memes! ...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=984724 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=595456 The front lines of the age-old war over truth are well defined. On one side are those who believe in plain, unvarnished facts, rock-solid truths that can be found through reason and objectivity - that science leads to truth, for instance. Their opponents mock this idea. They see the dark forces of language, culture, power, gender, class, ideology and desire - all subverting our perceptions of the world, and clouding our judgement with false notions of absolute truth. Beginning with an early skirmish in the war - when Socrates confronted the sophists in ancient Athens - Blackburn offers a penetrating look at the longstanding battle these two groups have waged, examining the philosophical battles fought by Plato, Protagoras, William James, David Hume, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, and many others, with a particularly fascinating look at Nietzsche. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735040 Not all swans are white, and not all events--no matter what the experts think--are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684364 After the success of his work On bullshit, Frankfurt looks at the other side of the philosophical coin. If bullshit resides in the realm of subjective perception, then truth points to what lies outside that realm. Frankfurt is praised for his ability to speak to a wide general audience. Thus, On Truth is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the function of truth in our culture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=342211 During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds - geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery as well as conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. Campbells new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographics, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. With more than thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290623 Mass literacy, mass communication, and the Internet have all increased the amount of information available. But false knowledge still abounds. Taking cues from Sir Thomas Browne, the English Renaissance skeptic, this title examines a host of contemporary errors in thinking and offers a powerful explanation of why they occur. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=340318 This major new textbook introduces both the concepts and the contexts of the Enlightenment to students of eighteenth-century history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=21834