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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was...

Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the...

Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his quaint humanistic platitudes, maxims, and quasi-enigmatic...

In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s...

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught...

Augustine’s spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but...

The New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong and Shape navigates the landscape of what we don’t know, steering us to a calmer, wiser place from which uncertainty is a source of wonder and creativity Humans are wired to worry, and there’s a lot to worry about. It’s almost a...

Neste volume, Sílvia Faustino de Assis Saes apresenta três grandes modelos de investigação filosófica da linguagem: o modelo antigo, platônico-aristotélico; o modelo da Lógica Port-Royal, determinante para a Modernidade; o modelo de Wittgenstein, revolucionário no pensamento...

Neste volume, Juvenal Savian Filho apresenta ao leitor a ferramenta básica do pensamento filosófico: a argumentação. De maneira prática, mostra como a análise dos raciocínios é fundamental para um pensamento coerente. Coleção dirigida por Marilena Chaui e Juvenal Savian Filho...

Neste volume, Danilo Marcondes conduz o leitor por uma instigante reflexão sobre um tema que está no coração da filosofia: a verdade. Parte da concepção mais clássica de correspondência entre o intelecto e as coisas até chegar à posição contemporânea que distingue entre...

Neste volume, Silvana de Souza Ramos baseia-se no pensamento de dois grandes filósofos (René Descartes e Maurice Merleau-Ponty) para investigar o que é o ser humano. Valendo-se da discussão sobre as relações entre pensamento e percepção, a autora traça as linhas mestras da herança...

Neste volume, Tessa Moura Lacerda mostra como os filósofos, desde a Antiguidade até nossos dias, dedicam-se a compreender essa experiência que geralmente é associada apenas com os ímpetos amorosos, mas envolve uma torrente de outros sentimentos e ideias: a paixão...

Neste volume, Érico Andrade expõe de maneira didática o nascimento da noção de sujeito do conhecimento, percorrendo a obra de René Descartes, e expõe os seus desdobramentos, por meio da crítica empirista, da reelaboração kantiana, da retomada fenomenológica e da mudança operada em...

Neste volume, Rodrigo Duarte parte do ambiente em que vivemos para refletir sobre a vivência da arte. Busca, então, elementos de reflexão no pensamento de autores como Platão, Aristóteles, Santo Agostinho, Santo Tomás, Kant, Hegel, Adorno e Arthur Danto, entre outros...

El texto ofrece una explicación genealógica de los vínculos que unen el planteamiento kantiano con cuatro presuposiciones pragmáticas inevitables en la acción comunicativa: un mundo objetivo común, la responsabilidad de los sujetos racionales, la validez incondicional de las pretensiones...

In Signal Beyond Speech, A. J. Salara invites listeners into a provocative inquiry at the edge of consciousness, cognition, and communication. This is not a book about artificial intelligence in the usual sense—it is a philosophical reflection on the nature of intelligence itself, and the possibility of perceiving it beyond the limits of symbols, syntax, and structured language.

This book argues that the most important moments in rational inquiry begin not with success, but with failure. When proof breaks down, when a framework falls silent before truths that appear stable and well-defined, something essential is revealed—not about the truth itself, but about the limits of the system meant to capture it. Moving between logic, mathematics, and physics, the book shows how undecidability and non-provability function not as walls, but as signals, guiding inquiry toward more adequate forms of explanation.

Master critical thinking and historical philosophy to shield your mind against seductive nonsense and manipulation. When navigating a daily landscape of polarized debates and digital misinformation, you need an empowering intellectual toolkit. This accessible journey reveals how civilization...

Master the art of logic and elevate your critical thinking by tracing the fascinating history of human reasoning. Whether you are navigating complex modern debates or satisfying a deep intellectual curiosity during your daily commute, this thought-provoking journey reveals how ancient disputes...

Overcome mental fog and master critical thinking through guided, real-time argument analysis. Whether you are maximizing your morning commute or studying for high-stakes exams, this calm, systematic brain training cuts through the noise of abstract theory. You will actively practice spotting...