Hume
Mar 01, 2005David Hume was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. His philosophical views in ethics, e...
Summer's just around the corner – what books are you going to pack with your Speedo? John and Ken leaf through some of this summer's philosophy, fiction, and non-fiction reading with Danielle Marshall from Powell's City of Books.
Philosophy & Nonfiction mentioned on the air
Why? by Charles Tilly | Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry Nalebuff | Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches by Robert Ingersoll |
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely | Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo, and Josiah Ober | Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony |
Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking by Michael C. Jackson and Steven D. Hales |
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Fiction mentioned on the air
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon | Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann |
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Thomas Mann | Flatland by Edwin Abbott | Remebrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust |
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy |
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