Nowtilus - La Filosofía en 100 preguntas

Vicente Caballero es doctor en Filosofía Sobresaliente Cum Laude. Es miembro del grupo de investigación GIPEL (Pensamiento español e iberoamericano), colaborador honorífico del Departamento de Psicología Básica de la Universidad Complutense e investigador en varios proyectos relacionados. Trabaja como profesor de Filosofía e imparte además Ética, Historia de la Filosofía e Piscología, labor que compagina con la elaboración de artículos académicos sobre temática filosófica e Historia de las Ideas.

- Una obra de divulgación sobre la Filosofía que selecciona los cien temas más relevantes de esta disciplina explicadas con rigor, amenidad, agudeza e inteligencia.
- Con esta obra el lector será capaz de dar respuesta a las cuestiones fundamentales que se plantean a la hora de conocer y comprender la filosofía: la realidad, el sentido de la humanidad, los límites del conocimiento, el origen del mundo,…. Es una excelente aproximación a todos los grandes problemas o cuestiones de esta materia.
- El autor incorpora las últimas actualizaciones en el estudio del pensamiento filosófico tradicional y moderno para desmitificar algunos de los prejuicios más extendidos sobre esta disciplina
- Al igual que los demás títulos de la colección CPE la obra tiene un formato original, claro y muy didáctico, pues plantea todo el conocimiento sobre una disciplina en un formato atractivo con un total de 100 grandes temas.
- Vicente Caballero es doctor en Filosofía Sobresaliente Cum Laude. Es miembro del grupo de investigación GIPEL (Pensamiento español e iberoamericano), colaborador honorífico del Departamento de Psicología Básica de la Universidad Complutense e investigador en varios proyectos relacionados.
- Trabaja como profesor de Filosofía e imparte además Ética, Historia de la Filosofía y Psicología, labor que compagina con la elaboración de artículos académicos sobre temática filosófica e Historia de las Ideas.

PHILOSOPHY IN 100 QUESTIONS

The key themes to immerse yourself in the fascinating and complex world of Philosophy, sorted by topics, and described with academic rigour, in an entertaining and informative language. What is philosophy?, metaphysics, ontology, the limits of knowledge, the man in the cosmos, philosophy of religion, philosophy and economics, society and politics, art and aesthetics. All the answers to the questions that have always been made.

Did you know that Eastern philosophy is growing in popularity because we live in times of crisis? Is there a God or have we made him up? How can we distinguish the parascience from science? What did Descartes mean with his "I think, therefore I am"? Do we have a body or are we our body? Are we really free or freedom is an illusion? Can we educate emotions? Do we really need to live in society or would we be better off alone? Can peace last forever? Did you know that economists argue more about Philosophy than about Economy? Is there an objective beauty or anything can be beautiful in the eyes of somebody and ugly for somebody else?

THE AUTHOR

Vicente Caballero de la Torre (Madrid, 1978) holds a PhD Suma cum laude in Philosophy by the Complutense University of Madrid, he works as a Secondary School teacher in the Education Office of Madrid’s Autonomous Community, for the specialty of Philosophy, teaching Ethics, Philosophy, History of Philosophy and Psychology. He is a member of GIPEL research group (Spanish and Hispanic American thinking), directed by the Professor of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), José Luis Villacañas, and was recently (2014) a vocal member of the doctoral thesis court, under the chairmanship of Carlos Berzosa, Professor and former dean of the UCM. He was also Honorary collaborator with the Department of Basic Psychology II (2006-2013) at the UCM, and researcher for the project, directed by Professor Helio Carpintero, «Applied Psychology in Spain» (1968-2000). He is the author of several academic articles and has given lectures on philosophical themes and History of the ideas. Vicente is also an active member of Academia.edu, has been invited to various sessions of academic discussion on essays, such as «Economics and allegations of scientism» (Don Ross), «Team Agency and Conditional Games» (Don Ross), and «Does Weber offer a suitable vocabulary for the analysis of modernity?» (José Luis Villacañas).

SALES PITCH

• An informative work on Philosophy which selects the 100 most relevant topics of this discipline explained with rigour, amenity, acuity and intelligence.
• With this work the reader will be able to answer key issues that appear when it comes to know and understand Philosophy: reality, the meaning of humanity, the limits of knowledge, the origin of the world... It is an excellent approach to all the major problems or issues among this subject.
• The author incorporates the latest updates in the study of the traditional and modern philosophical thought, in order to demystify some of the more extended prejudices on this discipline.
• Like the other titles in the CPE collection it has an original, clear and very educational format because it raises all the knowledge about a topic in an attractive format with a total of 100 questions.
• Victor Caballero holds a PhD Suma Cum Laude in Philosophy. He is a member of the Research Group GIPEL (Spanish and Hispanic American thinking), honorary collaborator of the Department of Basic Psychology of the University Complutense of Madrid and researcher in several related projects.
• He works as a Philosophy Professor and also teaches Ethics, History of Philosophy and Psychology. He combines this work with the elaboration of academic articles on Philosophy, and History of the Ideas, topics.