22 de junio de 1936. El filósofo Moritz Schlick se dirige a impartir una charla en la Universidad de Viena cuando Johann Nelböck, un antiguo y malogrado estudiante, lo mata de un disparo en las escaleras de la universidad. Algunos perió...
From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man? , the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history
Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues,...
Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Kurt Gödel, Rudolf Carnap und in seinem Umfeld auch Ludwig Wittgenstein sowie der junge Karl Popper gehörten zu den wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten des Wiener Kreises, der für das Denken des 20. Jahrhunderts...
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing...
"It is the morning of June 22, 1936. The professor of inductive logic at the University of Vienna, Moritz Schlick, is making his accustomed way up the wide stone stairs that lead into the University. It is 9:15 and a former student of Schlick's,...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, educationist and political provocateur - was on the run. He was fleeing persecution from enemies who proclaimed him a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, the foremost philosopher in the English language...
On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what...
Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer. A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was uniquely equipped to take on the Soviets. His every waki...