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10 best books like Naming and Necessity (Saul A. Kripke): The Republic, Philosophical Investigations, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, The Concept of Mind, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, On Certainty, Word and Object

The Republic
AuthorPlato
ISBN0140449140
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
Philosophical Investigations
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0631231277
If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0872204200
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,...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521626951
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN1420926993
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
The Concept of Mind
AuthorGilbert Ryle
ISBN0226732967
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...
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
AuthorDavid J. Chalmers
ISBN0195117891
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0415254086
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
On Certainty
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0061316865
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...
Word and Object
AuthorWillard Van Orman Quine
ISBN0262670011
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,...
The Blue and Brown Books
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0061312118
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...
The View from Nowhere
AuthorThomas Nagel
ISBN0195056442
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...
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
AuthorGeorge Berkeley
ISBN0915144611
--Hylas: I say, Philonous, can I talk to you about something? I have just read a bizarre, horrible book by George Berkeley, where he argues all sorts of nonsense.

--Philonous: Is that so, Hylas? Pray, what was this book?

--Hylas: Why, it was none other than Three Dialogues Between Hylas...
Language, Truth, and Logic
AuthorA.J. Ayer
ISBN0486200108
Classic introduction to objectives & methods of schools of empiricism & linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth &...
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