Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation
10 best books like Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation (Donald Davidson): The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Concept of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Stoicism, Word and Object, On the Plurality of Worlds, Reason, Truth and History, Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), Naming and Necessity
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
| Author | Karl Popper |
| ISBN | 0415278449 |
We do not know: we can only guess.
Karl Popper originally wrote Logik der Forchung (The Logic of Research) in 1934. This original version—published in haste to secure an academic position and escape the threat of Nazism (Popper was of Jewish descent)—was heavily condensed at the publisher’s...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
| Author | Thomas S. Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0226458083 |
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...
| Author | Gilbert Ryle |
| ISBN | 0226732967 |
This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the...
| Author | Jaegwon Kim |
| ISBN | 0813342694 |
The philosophy of mind has always been a staple of the philosophy curriculum. But it has never held a more important place than it does today, with both traditional problems and new topics often sparked by the developments in the psychological, cognitive, and computer sciences. Jaegwon Kim's Philosophy...
| Author | John Sellars |
| ISBN | 0520249089 |
One of the most popular of the Hellenistic schools of philosophy in antiquity, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant presence throughout the history of Western philosophy. Its doctrines appealed to people from all strata of ancient society-from the slave Epictetus...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0262670011 |
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion,...
| Author | David Kellogg Lewis |
| ISBN | 0631224262 |
against all odds, i am extremely fond of this book. modal realism doesn't really do any of the work that i care most about doing, or resolve any of the questions that i care most about resolving, but i'll give this to david lewis, he seems to have done a great job of resolving the questions that HE cares most...
| Author | Hilary Putnam |
| ISBN | 0521297761 |
اگر کسی بخواهد دورهی «رئالیسم درونی» پاتنم را بخواند، باید اول سراغ این کتاب بیاید. قبل از این کتاب، پاتنم دو مقاله دارد که در آنها به شکل تکنیکال استدلال...
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0521558182 |
René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is a book I picked up for two reasons. The first is that a friend had been reading and enjoying his work, the second is that I have developed an interest in philosophy due to my university units. I am currently undertaking one literature unit on the...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674598466 |
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.
Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural...
