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Recommended Reading (A - Z): Philosophy
Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy
Santayana, G July 28, 2007. #
Philosophy
From Amazon
1923. From the Preface: Here is one more system of philosophy. If the reader is tempted to smile, I can assure him that I smile with him, and that my system-to which this volume is a critical...
Persons and Places: The Background of My Life
Santayana, G July 28, 2007. #
Philosophy
From Amazon
In this fascinating autobiographical volume, George Santayana, famous philosopher, and author of The Last Puritan, brings together this background to give a charming yet profound picture of the various...
What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”
Schrödinger, E July 28, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
From Amazon
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist’s exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it...
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Searle, J July 31, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
The Rediscovery of the Mind
Searle, J.R July 28, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
From Amazon
In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so...
The Mystery of Consciousness
Searle, J.R July 28, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
The Wall Street Journal, Jim Holt
For sheer intellectual brio, it would be hard to beat John R. Searle’s The Mystery of Consciousness. Mr. Searle, a philosopher at Berkeley, casts a critical eye on recent attempts to...
Writings on an Ethical Life
Singer, P July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Amazon.com
Peter Singer’s arguments have penetrating moral accountability that can be quite unnerving to the reader who is expecting an afternoon on the couch with a cup of coffee and a book. In fact, words like...
The Trial of Socrates
Stone, I.F July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Philosophy
From Publishers Weekly
“The philosopher we meet on these pages is an arrogant, bullying elitist who welcomed death and did his best to antagonize the jury that sentenced him,” stated PW. “In this iconoclastic portrait...
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism
Stroud, B July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
From Amazon
This book raises questions about the nature of philosophy by examining the source and significance of one central philosophical problem: how can we know anything about the world around us? Stroud...
What is Man? And Other Essays
Twain, M July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this...
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
Unger, P July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
“Unger has pioneered a new way of testing and exploring our intuitions, with results that are devastating for traditional ideas of how to do ethics. This will shake normative ethics to its roots. A major work of...
Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
From Amazon
This book does not demand continuous reading; but at whatever place one opens it one will find matter for reflection.
Free Will
Watson, G July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Book Description
The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Wittgenstein, L July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Review
Wittgenstein, in his preface, tells us that his book is not a textbook, and that its object will be attained if there is one person who reads it with understanding and to whom it affords pleasure. We think...
Philosophical Investigations
Wittgenstein, L July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
From Amazon
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it...
On Certainty
Wittgenstein, L July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Alan R. White, Philosophical Books
“The volume is full of thought-provoking insights which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.”
