David Edmonds

On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers . . .

PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIXS THE QUEENS GAMBITGripping.SUNDAY TIMESPure drama.INDEPENDENTCompelling.NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one of the most thrilling and politically charged chess matches of all time.For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess. Evidence, according to Moscow, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive - and apparently unstoppable.Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions. As the authors reveal, when Spassky began to lose, the KGB decided to step in. . .

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. He was fleeing intolerance, persecution, and enemies who proclaimed him a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, the foremost philosopher in the English language, universally praised as a model of decency, came to his aid. He brought Rousseau and his beloved little dog Sultan to England. And then it all went horribly wrong. In Rousseaus Dog, David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitter quarrel that turned these two Enlightenment giants into mortal foes. And it is a very human story of compassion, treachery, anger and revenge.

Todos los días, los medios de comunicación nos dan cuenta de sorprendentes historias que & #8194;ocurren a lo largo y ancho del mundo y que plantean complejos dilemas morales. En este libro, un

A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives and what moral problems it might bring showing us what to be wary of and what to be hopeful for There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity It will disrupt our lives entirely David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution The chapters are rich with examples from contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future The contributors investigate problems we re all aware of and introduce some that will be new to many readers They discuss self and identity health and insurance politics and manipulation the environment work law policing and defence Each of them explains the issue in a lively and illuminating way and takes a view about how we should think and act in response Anyone who is wondering what ethical challenges the future holds for us can start here

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume were giants of the Enlightenment, men whose writings would forever shape our world. But when they fell out, they did so on a grand scale - to reveal a very human story of compassion, treachery, anger and revenge. In "Rousseau''s Dog", David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitter quarrel that turned these two Enlightenment giants into mortal foes. The result is a story of celebrity and its price, of shameless spin, of destroyed reputations and shattered friendships.

22 de junio de 1936. El filósofo Moritz Schlick se dirige a dar una charla en la Universidad de Viena cuando Johann Nelböck, un antiguo y perturbado estudiante, lo mata de un disparo en las escaleras

Jean Jacques Rousseau—filósofo, novelista, compositor, educador y provocador político— había puesto pies en polvorosa. Huía de la intolerancia, de la persecución y de enemigos que le tachaban de ser