Books by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou
“The story starts with a lecture by Bertrand Russell. You have Russell standing there on the podium and he starts his lecture by saying, ‘Okay we’re now in this situation, should we fight against the Nazis? Yes, or no?’ It’s 1939, and there is this whole thing in the UK, should they or shouldn’t they? Should they be trying to keep the peace with the Nazis? And that didn’t go very well, it didn’t last very long. Russell was a pacifist and the audience knew that. And he says, ‘Well, before we do that we have to think about the rules of thoughts, to make such a decision.’ And then you go back in the past, and you see Russell and the people around him.” Read more...
The Best Illustrated Philosophy Books
Helen De Cruz, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou were recommended
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -
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The Annotated Alice
by Lewis Carroll & Martin Gardner (Editor) -
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou -
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The Way of Nature (The Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics)
by Zhuangzi (aka Chuang Tzu), C. C. Tsai (illustrator) and Brian Bruya (translator) -
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The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women
by Lisa Whiting & Rebecca Buxton
The Best Illustrated Philosophy Books, recommended by Helen De Cruz
The Best Illustrated Philosophy Books, recommended by Helen De Cruz
Philosophy is a very verbal discipline with much effort made to express meaning through the very precise use of language. You might think that pictures wouldn’t get much of a look in, but you’d be wrong, as philosopher Helen de Cruz explains. She chooses five books where the philosophical meaning of the subjects under investigation are given greater depth and clarity with the use of illustrations, from ancient Chinese philosophy through to the philosopher queens of the 21st century.
The best books on The Beauty of Maths, recommended by Marcus du Sautoy
The Oxford professor tells us how he finds beauty in maths, and why his ultimate aim is to become a master of the glass bead game.
