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Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose ten-year-old Gödel, Escher, Bach shows few signs of fatigue. Several years ago the Club, not even blinking at the title, offered his Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, which ponders such imponderables as the nature of human creativity and the limits of artificial intelligence.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
By 1952 the forty-four-year-old Beauvoir found herself facing the fate she described so eloquently in The Second Sex, whereby every woman discovers, on reaching a certain age, that she is no longer considered worthy of a man’s desire.
Warren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Kant’s intellectual journey was inspired by the work of two philosophers who preceded him: Isaac Newton and David Hume. The first he admired; the second he was determined to prove wrong.
Warren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
the extraordinary corpus of Patrick Harpur, one of the most criminally underrated scholars of our time.
Bernardo Kastrup • The Daimon and the Soul of the West
hole. As she read more about Buddhist philosophy, she noticed a similarity in its ideas to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and she began to wonder if there were Eastern roots in the Western Enlightenment. So began her quest to link Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary to Tibet who wrote about Buddhism in 1728, with David Hume, who
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