Theory of Knowledge: Knowledge and the Knower

Provides a comprehensive exploration of the brain in normal, everyday language.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Contains the seventeenth-century text in which Locke explores the origin and history of human ideas, and includes the notion that all human ideas take root in sensation and reflection, expounding upon the connection between ideas and verbal signs, and he investigates the the nature of human understanding.

Draws from many different scientific fields to provide information about how the mind works, examining the major faculties of the mind including perception, reasoning, emotion, and social relations, and discussing higher callings such as art, music, literature, humor, religion, and philosophy.

The gorilla, Ishmael mentors human students that want to save the world.

The author sets up specific tests by which readers can evaluate statements of ideas. Readers will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience--those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.

Examines leading high school American history texts and points out errors in them. Discusses historical misinformation, from the voyages of Columbus to the flaws of our national leaders. Also notes errors in descriptions of the functions of the federal government.

An examination of how American History was written to hide the truth about conquests of the Americas and its citizens by Europeans from their first encounters with each other.

Describes how the human brain is responsible for projecting the mental world that humans live in, creating culture, and is in control of all aspects of personality, and contains experimental studies that follow brain imaging and patient studies.

Recounts case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders

A collection of six meditations by seventeenth-century mathematician René Descartes in which he first discards all belief in things that are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure

Discusses the philosophical and metaphysical concepts of the theory of knowledge.

Examines philosophical discussions of skepticism from throughout history and provides the author's observations on the structure of cognition and knowledge.

Examines how the mind works through the human use of language such as the use of innuendo, swearing, prepositions, tenses, nouns, verbs, names, and humor. Suggests that human thoughts and language both draw from core ideas like space, force, dominance, kinship, and contamination.

Describes the illusions of imagination and foresight that make us misunderstand our dreams and pleasures. Offers insights from the author's scientific research in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics. Clarifies why humans know so little about what we are to become

Presents basic techniques for learning how to approach thinking about the big questions in life.

Dictionary of terms, concepts, and strategies in critical thinking and reasoning.

Addresses a variety of philosophical questions and explains how they apply to everyday life and their historical significance.