Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers (Cambridge)) (Volume 1)
7 best books like Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers (Cambridge)) (Volume 1) (Richard M. Rorty): The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The Art of Loving, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, The Blue and Brown Books, Remarks on Colour, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, How to Do Things with Words
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0886825016 |
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the...
| Author | Erich Fromm |
| ISBN | 0061129739 |
The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love
Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded...
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| ISBN | 0151511977 |
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...
| 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 | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631116419 |
This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour...
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...
How to Do Things with Words
| Author | J.L. Austin |
| ISBN | 0674411528 |
John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words.
For...
