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Do they think you're stupid? : 100 ways of spotting spin and nonsense from the media, pundits and politicians
Julian Baggini provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad arguments people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.
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A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltaire's big bet, Russell's slip of the pen and lobster logic. Among your discoveries will be why the egg came before the chicken, what the dishwasher missed and just what it was that made Descartes disappear. Experience the unbearable lightness of logical conclusions in Professor Sorensen's intriguing cabinet of riddles, problems, paradoxes, puzzles and the anomalies of human utterance. As you accompany him on investigations into the mysteries of truth, falsehood, reason and delusion, prepare to be surprised, enlightened, mystified and, above all, entertained.
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Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXXIX Buffon's cycloid
In Buffon's account of his famous problem of the needle, it is not clear how he actually obtained the answer. A conjecture is put forward in this note, based on Buffon's apparent mathematical abilities and inclinations, insofar as they can be determined from his correspondence.
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