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Einstein's Intuition Thad Roberts
APerfectUniverse? Thad Roberts
Maps of Meaning - The Architecture of Belief Jordan Peterson
The Art and Science of Logic Daniel Bonevac
Origins of the Sacred — The Ecstasies of Love and War Dudley Young
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The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Harvard Univ. Press

    CP1 Principles of Philosophy

1931

    CP2 Elements of Logic

1932

    CP3 The Mathematics of Logic

1932

    CP4 The Simplest Mathematics

1933

    CP5 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism

1934

    CP6 Scientific Metaphysics

1935

    CP7 Science and Philosophy

1958

    CP8 Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography

1958
The Book of Why—The New Science of Cause and Effect Judea Pearl 2018
Causality — Models, Reasoning and Inference Judea Pearl 2009
Because Without Cause
Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics? 		Marc Lange 2017
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language Umberto Eco 1984
Laws and Lawmakers Marc Lange 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011
Spiral Dynamics, Mastering Values, Leadership and Change Beck & Cowan
Difference and Repetition Giles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze, Guattari
Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-5 — 5th Edition 		American Psychiatric Association
HideAndSeek? Neel Burton
Cosmopolis — The Hidden Agenda of Modernity Stephen Toulmin
Quantum Manjit Kumar
The Symbolic Species Terrence W. Deacon
Incomplete Nature Terrence W. Deacon
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes
Semiotics, The Basics Daniel Chandler
Living Without Free Will Derk Peerboom
Breakdown of Will George Ainslie
Handbook of Psychology — 2003 Wiley & Sons
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 volumes — 1998 Routledge
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic 3rd edition:) A.C. Grayling
In Over Our Heads Robert Kegan
Immunity to Change Kegan & Lahey
The Evolving Self Robert Kegan
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics Marc Lange
Gödel's Theorem, An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse Torkel Franzén
Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid. Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter
Against Method Paul Feyerabend
Object-Oriented Ontology A New Theory of Everything Graham Harman
The Abuse of Casuistry — A History of Moral Reasoning Jonsen & Toulmin
The Letters of Michel de Montaigne Michel de Montaigne
My Traitor's Heart Rian Malan
Your Brain at Work David Rock
The Nonsense of Free Will, Facing Up to a False Belief Richard Oerton
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Louis Cozolino
Brain, Mind and the Structure of Reality Paul L. Nunez
The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist
The User Illusion Tor Nørretranders
The Right Side of History Ben Shapiro
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Alex Epstein
The Tyranny of Choice Renata Salecl
Out of Control Paul Kelly
Stiffed Susan Faludi
Nothing Matters Ronald Green
Time to Tell Ronald Green
A History of Western Philosophy C. Stephen Evans
Knowledge in the Blood Jonathan D. Jansen
God Against the Gods Jonathan Kirch
Where Good Ideas Come From, The Natural History of Innovation Steven Johnson
The Politics of Life Itself Nikolas Rose
The Psychology of Humor Rod A. Martin
Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind Hurley, Dennett & Adams
The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt
Naked Economics, Undressing the Dismal Science Charles Wheelan
Origins of Human Communication Michael Tomasello

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Cosmopolis — The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
Stephen Toulmin

Pi

Contents

Preface . ix

Prologue — Backing into the Millenium . 1

Chapter One — What is the Problem About Modernity? . 5 

   Dating the Start of Modernity
   The Standard Account and Its Defects
   The Modernity of the Renaissance
   Retreat from the Renaissance
   From Humanists to Rationalists

Chapter Two — The 17th Century Counter-Renaissance . 45 

   Henry of Navarre and the Crisis of Belief
   1610-1611: Young René and the Henriade
   1610-1611: John Donne Grieves for Cosmopolis
   1640-1650: The Politics of Certainty
   The First Step Back from Rationalism

Chapter Three — The Modern World View . 89 

   Fashioning the New "Europe of Nations"
   1660-1720 Leibniz Discovers Ecuminism
   1660-1720 Newton and the New Cosmopolis
   1720-1780 The Subtext of Modernity
   The Second Step Back from Rationalism

Chapter Four — The Far Side of Modernity . 139 

   The High Tide of Sovereign Nationhood
   1750-1914: Dismantling the Scaffolding
   1920-1960: Re-renaissance Deferred
   1965-1975: Humanism Reinvented
   The Twin Trajectories of Modernity

Chapter Five — The Way Ahead . 175 

   The Myth of the Clean Slate
   Humanizing Modernity
   The Recovery of Practical Philosophy
   From Leviathan to Lilliput
   The Rational and the Reasonable

Epilogue — Facing the Future Again . 203

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