Experience and Nature
7 best books like Experience and Nature (John Dewey): The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, The Mote in God's Eye, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The Varieties of Religious Experience, God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In), Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 0062820710 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...
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Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 1402199031 |
"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...
God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In)
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570751587 |
God of the Oppressed remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology—the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture. Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions...
| Author | Wilfrid Sellars |
| ISBN | 0674251555 |
The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about...
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486282708 |
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on "radical empiricism" and...
