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The Passion of the Western Mind became a bestseller, selling over 200,000 copies by 2006. [7] It "became a staple in some college curriculums". [8] It gave Tarnas' work international respect [9] and was hailed as an important work by Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, John E. Mack, Stanley Krippner, Georg Feuerstein, David Steindl-Rast, John Sculley, Robert A. McDermott, Jeffrey ...
Michael Joseph Sugrue (February 1, 1957 – January 16, 2024) was an American historian and university professor.He spent his early career teaching at Columbia University and conducting research as a Mellon fellow at Johns Hopkins University prior to teaching at Princeton University, where he was the Behrman Fellow at Princeton's Council on the Humanities.
Intellectuals and Society is a non-fiction book by Thomas Sowell. [1] [2] The book was initially published on January 5, 2010, by Basic Books.Intellectuals are defined as "idea workers" who exercise profound influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are often not directly accountable for the results.
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (2020). Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6911-9216-1. Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (2023). Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6912-4015-2. Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (2023). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
The owl on the book cover alludes to an analogy which Bostrom calls the "Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows". [5] A group of sparrows decide to find an owl chick and raise it as their servant. [6] They eagerly imagine "how easy life would be" if they had an owl to help build their nests, to defend the sparrows and to free them for a life of leisure.
The book contains accessible popular expositions on the mathematical theory of infinity, and a number of related topics. These include Gödel's incompleteness theorems and their relationship to concepts of artificial intelligence and the human mind, as well as the conceivability of some unconventional cosmological models.
Boas examines beliefs that more accomplished civilizations must have higher intelligence and "discovered little evidence to support them." He then examines the debate on nature versus nurture and finds that the heritability of IQ and the ratio of intellectual giftedness of people within a civilization were "at best a possible, but not a necessary, element determining the degree of advancement ...
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is a 1961 work by the philosopher Ayn Rand. It is her first long non-fiction book. It is her first long non-fiction book. Much of the material consists of excerpts from Rand's novels, supplemented by a long title essay that focuses on the history of philosophy .