Philosophy:

Bullspotting
Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation
Written by Loren Collins

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $11.99

At a time when average citizens are bombarded with false information every day, this entertaining book will prove to be not only a great read but also an indispensable resource. Birthers. Truthers. Moon hoaxers. Antivaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Young Earth creationists. These are just a few of the purveyors of misinformation who... Read more >

Bullspotting
Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation
Written by Loren Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 267 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $19.00

At a time when average citizens are bombarded with false information every day, this entertaining book will prove to be not only a great read but also an indispensable resource. Birthers. Truthers. Moon hoaxers. Antivaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Young Earth creationists. These are just a few of the purveyors of misinformation who... Read more >

The Dialectical Method
A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote
Written by Clark Butler

Format: Trade Paperback, 276 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $39.00

Most people, if they have heard anything about Hegel, associate him with the "dialectical method" he claimed to use. The associated "Hegelian dialectic" is often cavalierly explained as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Yet, in fact, Hegel never wrote any substantial account of dialectical logic or dialectical method. This book reopens the... Read more >

How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass
A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions
Written by Christopher Dicarlo

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.99

What can I know? What am I? Why am I here? How should I behave? What is to come of me? The way you answer these questions will tell you a lot about yourself. And if you ask others these questions, their answers will tell you a good deal about them... Read more >

How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass
A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions
Written by Christopher Dicarlo

Format: Trade Paperback, 398 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $19.00

What can I know? What am I? Why am I here? How should I behave? What is to come of me? The way you answer these questions will tell you a lot about yourself. And if you ask others these questions, their answers will tell you a good deal about them... Read more >

Believing Bullshit
How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Written by Stephen Law

Format: Trade Paperback, 271 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $19.00

Wacky and ridiculous belief systems abound. Members of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven on board a UFO. Muslim suicide bombers expect to be greeted after death by 72 heavenly virgins. And many fundamentalist Christians insist the entire universe is just 6,000 years old... Read more >

Believing Bullshit
How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Written by Stephen Law

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2011
Price: $11.99

Wacky and ridiculous belief systems abound. Members of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven on board a UFO. Muslim suicide bombers expect to be greeted after death by 72 heavenly virgins. And many fundamentalist Christians insist the entire universe is just 6,000 years old... Read more >

The Arithmetic of Life and Death

Written by George Shaffner

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $13.99

Whether you realize it or not, numbers are everywhere--and integral to almost every facet of your life . . . from your next raise in pay to the inevitable rise of inflation, your weekly family budget to your end of the national debt. And as George Shaffner amazingly reveals, there are... Read more >

Rational Episodes
Logic for the Intermittently Reasonable
Written by Keith M. Parsons

Format: Trade Paperback, 292 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $20.99

Logic is the skill that enables humans to think clearly, accurately, and rigorously and so to draw only the inferences that the evidence warrants. Some people, like scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer programmers, get plenty of on-the-job practice in thinking logically. The rest of us generally don’t.

In this accessible, concise yet... Read more >

The Logic of Alice
Clear Thinking in Wonderland
Written by Bernard M. Patten

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2008
Price: $21.99

Many commentaries have been devoted to Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The interpretations range from Freudian analysis to speculations about the real-life people who may have inspired the animal characters.
In this unique approach to interpreting Alice, the fruit of ten years of research, Dr. Bernard M. Patten shows... Read more >

The Art of Deception
An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Written by Nicolas Capaldi

Format: Trade Paperback, 277 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $22.99

Can you tell when you're being deceived?

This classic work on critical thinking — now fully updated and revised — uses a novel approach to teach the basics of informal logic. On the assumption that "it takes one to know one," the authors have written the book from the point of view... Read more >

Susan Haack
A Lady of Distinction-The Philosopher Responds to Her Critics
Edited by Cornelis De Waal

Format: Hardcover, 362 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2006
Price: $35.99

In this critical appraisal of the work of philosopher Susan Haack, editor Cornelis de Waal has assembled sixteen original essays from outstanding international contributors together with responses from Haack on the points raised. The contributors address most of Haack’s key publications, from her early writings on metaphysics to her most recent... Read more >

Being Logical
A Guide to Good Thinking
Written by D.Q. McInerny

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.95

Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, distinguished... Read more >

The Undiscovered Wittgenstein
The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher
Written by John W. Cook

Format: Hardcover, 437 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $59.99

Although Ludwig Wittgenstein is often described as the most important and interesting philosopher of the 20th century, it is also said that our fascination with him is a function of our bewilderment over who he really was and what his work stands for. There are many reasons for this, one of... Read more >

Being Logical
A Guide to Good Thinking
Written by D.Q. McInerny

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $11.99

Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, distinguished... Read more >

Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences

Written by Steven Goldberg

Format: Hardcover, 230 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $34.99

Steven Goldberg has devoted his career to exposing fallacious reasoning, misrepresented fact, and ideological agendas in the social sciences. His scholarly critiques offer alternative, and sometimes controversial, explanations that are notable for their logical integrity and loyalty to empirical reality. Best known for his work in the physiological roots of sex... Read more >