Mind and World: With a New Introduction by the Author
10 best books like Mind and World: With a New Introduction by the Author (John Henry McDowell): The Concept of Mind, Metaphysics, Cur Deus Homo, Reasons and Persons, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock, Word and Object, The Blue and Brown Books, The View from Nowhere, Intention
| 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 | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1888009039 |
I have very mixed feelings about Aristotle.
On the one hand, he's so tedious and uninspiring. This is only partially his fault: everything we have of his are lecture notes, and so it is no surprise that they are stylistically wanting. Many scholars think that Metaphysics contains many sections...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 1411646436 |
A thought provoking book on the deepest questions which have plagued mankind for time and eternity. Is there a God? Why did he have to die? How are we restored by his death? Anselm tackles these tough questions in his thought provocative book “Cur Deus Homo.” Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109)...
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674954017 |
Kripke is brilliant, and I only regret that it took me until now to read and to appreciate him. He gives an amazing exegesis of Wittgenstein, who was also brilliant, but obfuscated the fact by making his case with rhetorical questions. Kripke has figured out the answers to the rhetorical questions, and...
| Author | J.L. Austin |
| ISBN | 0195003071 |
"An excellent book presenting many of the major issues of ordinary language philosophy--very readable."--Mark Hamilton, Ashland University
"The clarity, the wit, and the patience of the writing are liable to deceive the reader on only one point, namely the amount of hard work that lies...
| 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 | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061312118 |
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
| Author | Thomas Nagel |
| ISBN | 0195056442 |
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person...
| Author | G.E.M. Anscombe |
| ISBN | 0674003993 |
Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble...
| 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...
