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Six of Kuczynski's more popular philosophical works.

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Gretchen Rudin tackles the critical question: How do we change? Her answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives. So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits? Better Than Before answers that question.

Set in the late 19th century, Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who was mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings; Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, originally intending to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.   

The empirical sciences make assumptions that they are not themselves capable of justifying. Philosophy justifies those assumptions; that is its job.

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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810-July 19, 1850), commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. Margaret Fuller enjoyed and wrote many pieces of poetry styled after the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Fuller was an advocate of women's rights and in particular, women's education and the right to employment. 

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition.

In this series of dialogues - clear, concise and cogent answers are given.

In this brisk volume, a case is made that a value is a belief as to how one live one's life if one's psychological architecture is to retain its integrity, and a case is thereby made that intention is an operationalized value. This analysis makes it possible to distinguish between minds that do and minds that do not host selves. The relationship between weakness of the will and self-deception is made clear, and it is explained how it is that one can knowingly act in self-destructive ways.

A discussion of the psychological underpinnings of anorexia and other psychological morbidities.

A light-hearted discussion of the nature of knowledge and truth.

A fictitious dialogue about bureaucrats and unconscious criminality.

It is made clear what analytic truth is and how it differs from formal truth. Some important theorems about incompleteness are stated both comprehensibly and accurately.

In this fictitious dialogue, it is shown that one couldn't improve one's ability to reason unless one were ab initio able to reason. Since the ability to reason presupposes knowledge of dependence-relations, it follows that people are ab initio able to reason and therefore have a priori knowledge.

It is made clear how psychosis differs from psychopathy.

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A fictitious exchange in which a number of points about creativity, agency, and selfhood are illustrated and brought into connection with exotic theorems of mathematical logic.

The distinction between neurosis and psychosis is discussed.