Dave Robinson

Ethical philosophy has a long and distinguished history, but how can you apply it to your life? This Practical Guide explores the alternative ethical philosophies and how we can all use these to aid us with everyday dilemmas. Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life provides advice on whether human beings really are selfish and greedy, why you might want to be a good person, and how to pick an ethical philosophy that works for you. Free of jargon but full of straightforward advice, case studies and step-by-step instructions, this is the perfect concise introduction to using ethics to help you make decisions.

Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain about anything at all? What is truth? Does language provide us with a true picture of the world? How should we behave towards each other? Do computers think?Introducing Philosophy is a comprehensive graphic guide to the thinking of all the significant philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrida. It examines and explains their key arguments and ideas without being obscure or solemn. Lively and accessible, it is the perfect introduction to philosophers and philosophical ideas for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education.

Actualmente, Sören Kierkegaard es considerado el fundador del existencialismo y el primer teólogo moderno. Según su perspectiva radical, la filosofía resultaba inútil si no producía un cambio permanente en la vida de las personas. Su desconfianza por los grandes sistemas abstractos, en particular el de Hegel, y su insistencia en que la filosofía es en esencia una forma de literatura, lo caracterizan, además, como un precursor de la problemática posmoderna. Kierkegaard ocultó la autoría de sus obras tras una multitud de seudónimos y puntos de vista que solían contradecir sus creencias. Fue el primer gran pensador que exploró la inexplicable angustia que afecta al hombre moderno. Se sumergió, también, en las paradojas de las creencias religiosas y desafió a una sociedad hipócrita que se decía cristiana. Kierkegaard para Principiantes es un relato acerca de la extraña vida y las ideas de un hombre torturado por su afán de cambiar las prioridades del pensamiento occidental.

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a common-sense view of the world and yet concludes that all we can ever know are ideas. In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, Dave Robinson - with the aid of Bill Mayblins brilliant illustrations - outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer. They also explore criticisms of empiricism in the work of Kant, Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and others, providing a unique overview of this compelling area of philosophy.

Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. I am like no one else in the whole world ... Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseaus defiant Confessions - an autobiography of astounding psychological insight. Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who firmly denied being one, Rousseau was the first to ask: "What is the value of civilization?" His answer - that civilization corrupts natural goodness and increases social inequalities - shocked his Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today. Did Rousseau inspire the French Revolution? Can Romanticism, psychoanalysis and Existentialism all be traced back to him? Introducing Rousseau presents a maverick thinker whose ideas revolutionized our understanding of childhood, education, government, language and much else. Dave Robinsons clear and concise account of Rousseaus ideas, engagingly dramatized by Oscar Zarates illustrations, guides the reader through Rousseaus turbulent life of lost innocence, persecution and paranoia.

Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy? Known as the first modern theologian, Sren Kierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish golden age. A philosopher, poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and the importance of the individual, influenced many 20th-century philosophers and literature throughout Europe. Dave Robinson and Oscar Zarates brilliant graphic guide explains what Kierkegaard means by anti-philosophy, and tells an illuminating story of the strange life and ideas of a man tortured by his attempts to change the very priorities of Western thought.

René Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said I think, therefore I am, even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes explains what Descartes doubted, and why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world. Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt give a lucid account of Descartes contributions to modern science, mathematics, and the philosophy of mind- and also reveal why he liked to do all of his serious thinking in bed.

"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Platos thought. It provides a clear account of Platos puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd theory of Forms, and concludes by revealing how Platos philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

When the DeSoto Building is stolen on a rainy night in January, the first thing Commissioner Pennyworth does is blame Vic. From then on Doc and the team are caught in a race to save the skyscrapers of New York from cryptid invaders while home-grown Nazis try to throw a monkey wrench in the works!This one has everything: Thousand-foot skyscrapers punching it out, daring aerial rescues, and even a French-speaking dinosaur!Ooops I forgot. It doesnt have chocolate chip cookies because they hadnt been invented yet.

Ancient Aliens in Mesopotamia! When the Christmas ball they are attending is thrown into chaos by the attack of power-armored Nazis, Doc and the team find themselves thrown into an adventure that will rewrite everything they know about human origins. Everything leads to the Great Ziggurat of Ur, where a column of fire reaches all the way to space. Will they find the answer before the world is destroyed? Sharks in the desert, winged aliens, robot skeletons, and biblical spaceships! Its all there in the sixth Doc Vandal adventure--The Ziggurat of Doom!

When Doc Vandals cousin is murdered with a bowl of poisonous fish soup, its not long before Doc and the team are thrown on a collision course with the Air Pirates of Krakatoa!After Vic escapes a deadly drone attack on the streets of New York City, all clues point to the coffee plantations of Java.Doc and the team have to fight their way past the Air Pirates deadly flying wing to get to the root of the mystery. Its a story of international conspiracies, giant robots, and colonial revolutionaries.Can Doc escape the prison beneath Krakatoa?Who is Tigress?...and what about Vic, trapped in the hold of a ship about to explode?Its all in the second Doc Vandal adventure: Air Pirates of Krakatoa!

It was supposed to be a simple job; the wizard even supplied the plans to the house. All Gwion had to do was steal a staff. Unfortunately the staff had its own agenda.Caught between the prophecies of two wizards, one living and one dead, it is all Gwions wits and Aetricias sword can do to keep the two of them alive in the face of Amadars rage. Can anyone stop the wizard before he ascends to godhood?

When Vics cousin appears on Docs doorstep, its not long before the team is plunged into an adventure that will take them half way around the world on a mission of life and death. Vics reaction to a strange alien mineral has made her the strongest being on Earth. Its also killing her. Her only hope lies underneath a Soviet labor camp deep in the Siberian wilderness. Driven by a need she cannot comprehend Vic leads the team into a war zone with the fate of the very planet on the line. Meanwhile, Doc and the rest have to try and save Vic without sparking a world war. and what about those Giant Robots?