Bøker av Dave Robinson

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world - and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Dave Robinson, with the aid of Bill Mayblin's brilliant illustrations, outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer. They also explore criticisms of empiricism in the work of Kant, Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and others, providing a unique overview of this compelling area of philosophy.

When the DeSoto Building is stolen on a rainy night in January, the first thing Commissioner Pennyworth does is blame Vic. From then on Doc and the team are caught in a race to save the skyscrapers of New York from cryptid invaders while home-grown Nazis try to throw a monkey wrench in the works! This one has everything: Thousand-foot skyscrapers punching it out, daring aerial rescues, and even a French-speaking dinosaur! Ooops I forgot. It doesn't have chocolate chip cookies because they hadn't been invented yet.

Welcome to a world of pulp super-science, talking gorillas, and rocket-powered Zeppelins. This is the world of Doc Vandal and his crew. Followed by Gus, the gorilla polymath, and Vic, the expatriate Russian countess, Doc is the foremost scientific adventurer of the age. Follow the team around the world and into the depths of space itself as they battle everyone from Nazis to utopian cultists. Thrill as Doc Vandal and the crew find themselves up against: Giant Robots battling around the shores of Lake Tunguska!A Mad Scientist about to destroy the world!Ancient Aliens from the depth of hyperspace! It's all there in the second collection of Doc Vandal adventures.

When Vic Frank is arrested on trumped up charges while Doc Vandal and the team are searching for a kidnapped scientist, explaining it to her mother is the least of Doc's problems.He's also got to deal with... Vic's irate girlfriend Ming... Nazis infiltrating the NYPD... and whoever just broke into the 87th floor of the Republic State Building and stole the plans for a device that can blow up the Sun!Join Doc Vandal and the team in a fight against the Technarchy's flying commandos, the German American Bund, and the vacuum of space itself!Enjoy a complete pulp adventure with Nazis, talking gorillas, and Zeppelins in Spaaaace!

When Vic's cousin appears on Doc's doorstep, it's not long before the team is plunged into an adventure that will take them half way around the world on a mission of life and death.Vic's reaction to a strange alien mineral has made her the strongest being on Earth. It's also killing her. Her only hope lies underneath a Soviet labor camp deep in the Siberian wilderness. Driven by a need she cannot comprehend Vic leads the team into a war zone with the fate of the very planet on the line.Meanwhile, Doc and the rest have to try and save Vic without sparking a world war....and what about those Giant Robots?

Ancient Aliens in Mesopotamia! When the Christmas ball they are attending is thrown into chaos by the attack of power-armored Nazis, Doc and the team find themselves thrown into an adventure that will rewrite everything they know about human origins. Everything leads to the Great Ziggurat of Ur, where a column of fire reaches all the way to space. Will they find the answer before the world is destroyed? Sharks in the desert, winged aliens, robot skeletons, and biblical spaceships! It's all there in the sixth Doc Vandal adventure--The Ziggurat of Doom!

Prophecy and sorcery don't mix, especially for a thief just trying to survive in a bustling city. A night that starts with a game of toss knife puts Gwion on a journey that will put him face to face with the wizard who would be god... One youth, helped by the staff of a long-dead wizard, and the steel of a Daughter of the Lesser Moon has to make a stand against the most powerful man in the Empire... Two prophecies are at war and only one can survive...

When Doc Vandal's cousin is murdered with a bowl of poisonous fish soup, it's not long before Doc and the team are thrown on a collision course with the Air Pirates of Krakatoa! After Vic escapes a deadly drone attack on the streets of New York City, all clues point to the coffee plantations of Java. Doc and the team have to fight their way past the Air Pirates' deadly flying wing to get to the root of the mystery. It's a story of international conspiracies, giant robots, and colonial revolutionaries. Can Doc escape the prison beneath Krakatoa? Who is Tigress? ...and what about Vic, trapped in the hold of a ship about to explode? It's all in the second Doc Vandal adventure: Air Pirates of Krakatoa!

The Imperium is on the brink of annihilation, and only one person can save it. After centuries of peace, the Enemy has returned, and the only one who can unlock the Imperium's last line of defense is the rightful emperor. Unfortunately, the throne has been empty for a decade. The sole remaining heir is rumored to be on a backwater planet where no one has heard of the Imperium. Can he be found before the Imperial system is dissolved and the ships of the Imperial Guard are sent to the Wreckers? Tam's a destroyer skipper who's been passed over for promotion one too many times. He's on a routine mission in his last command. Meanwhile, on Earth, a homeless man dreams of the stars. John doesn't know who he is, or where he's from. He just knows someone will come looking for him and he needs to be found. Jayne is a woman who works at a homeless shelter in Seattle and finds herself a long way from home. Who among them will be willing to pay the Price of Imperium?

Ethical philosophy has a long and distinguished history, but how can you apply it to your life? This Practical Guide explores the alternative ethical philosophies and how we can all use these to aid us with everyday dilemmas. Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life provides advice on whether human beings really are selfish and greedy, why you might want to be a good person, and how to pick an ethical philosophy that works for you. Free of jargon but full of straightforward advice, case studies and step-by-step instructions, this is the perfect concise introduction to using ethics to help you make decisions.

Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SrenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of the individual, influenced many 20th-century philosophers andliterature throughout Europe.Dave Robinson and Oscar Zarate's brilliant graphicguide explains what Kierkegaard means by 'anti-philosophy', and tells anilluminating story of the strange life and ideas of a man tortured by hisattempts to change the very priorities of Western thought.

"e;Introducing Plato"e; begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd theory of Forms, and concludes by revealing how Plato's philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.

Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people also know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes explains what Descartes doubted, and why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world. Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt give a lucid account of Descartes' contributions to modern science, mathematics, and the philosophy of mind- and also reveal why he liked to do all of his serious thinking in bed.

Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. 'I am like no one else in the whole world ...' Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's defiant Confessions - an autobiography of astounding psychological insight. Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who firmly denied being one, Rousseau was the first to ask: "e;What is the value of civilization?"e; His answer - that civilization corrupts natural goodness and increases social inequalities - shocked his Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today. Did Rousseau inspire the French Revolution? Can Romanticism, psychoanalysis and Existentialism all be traced back to him? Introducing Rousseau presents a maverick thinker whose ideas revolutionized our understanding of childhood, education, government, language and much else. Dave Robinson's clear and concise account of Rousseau's ideas, engagingly dramatized by Oscar Zarate's illustrations, guides the reader through Rousseau's turbulent life of lost innocence, persecution and paranoia.

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "e;identity"e; now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "e;rights"e;, self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"e;Introducing Ethics"e; confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "e;Introducing Bertrand Russell "e;we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education.

Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain about anything at all? What is truth? Does language provide us with a true picture of the world? How should we behave towards each other? Do computers think? "e;Introducing Philosophy"e; is a comprehensive graphic guide to the thinking of all the significant philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrida. It examines and explains their key arguments and ideas without being obscure or solemn. Lively and accessible, it is the perfect introduction to philosophers and philosophical ideas for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.