Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction
10 best books like Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction (Mark Siderits): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, On Certainty, Theaetetus, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, What the Buddha Taught, Meditations on First Philosophy, Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
| Author | Susan Blackmore |
| ISBN | 0195179595 |
In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the concept of consciousness.
The interviewees, ranging from major philosophers to renowned...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204200 |
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061316865 |
Über Gewissheit = On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty is a philosophical book composed from notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein over four separate periods in the eighteen months before his death on 29 April 1951. He left his initial notes at the home of Elizabeth Anscombe, who linked...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140444505 |
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely...
On the Genealogy of Morals
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
| Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
| ISBN | 0816611734 |
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our post-modernity. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when...
| Author | Walpola Rahula |
| ISBN | 0802130313 |
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872201929 |
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0872202976 |
The Proslogion (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title: Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to prove beyond contention the existence of god.
Anselm wrote this discourse, not from the perspective of an attempt...
| Author | Nāgārjuna |
| ISBN | 0195093364 |
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
| Author | Nelson Goodman |
| ISBN | 0674290712 |
Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, according to Science, "raised a storm of controversy" when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate.
How is it that we feel confident in generalizing...
| Author | Susan Haack |
| ISBN | 1591024587 |
Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls...
