Philosophical Writings of Peirce
10 best books like Philosophical Writings of Peirce (Charles Sanders Peirce): Logical Positivism, Selected Essays, Basic Writings of Existentialism, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Against the Academicians/The Teacher, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8: Modern Philosophy, Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America, Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, The Portable Plato, An Outline of Philosophy, Introduction to Aristotle
| Author | A.J. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0029011302 |
This collection of essays is well-formatted, detailed yet not impossible to understand, and gives a great general overview of the philosophical movement known as logical positivism that dominated Western philosophy for the first half of the 20th century. Ayer's choice in essays gives the reader...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
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| Author | Gordon Daniel Marino |
| ISBN | 0375759891 |
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino
Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must...
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486202917 |
The work of William James contributed greatly to the burgeoning fields of psychology, particularly in the areas of education, religion, mysticism and pragmatism. The brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James, William wrote several powerful essays expressing his ideas on the pragmatic...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0872202127 |
These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar...
| Author | Frederick Charles Copleston |
| ISBN | 0385470452 |
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy...
Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
| Author | Brad Inwood |
| ISBN | 0872203786 |
This new edition of Hellenistic Philosophy--including nearly 100 pages of additional materia--offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Arius Didymus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero,...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140150404 |
Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0415141176 |
Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0075536528 |
This is a great introduction to Aristotle, suitable for anyone who wants a taste of his most famous works without investing a great amount of time or money in any single one of them.
I've only read most, though not all, of the selections in this book, not always from this edition.
What...
| Author | G.A. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0691070687 |
First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has...
| Author | Thomas Aquinas |
| ISBN | 0075536536 |
By the time one has finished a hundred pages of this Introduction to St, Thomas Aquinas, one understands why so many priests and ministers hate theology. This book is truly the most mind-numbing work of pedantry that I have ever tackled. It analyzes in excruciating detail the qualities of man, of nature,...
| Author | Henry Sidgwick |
| ISBN | 0915145286 |
This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.
From the forward by John Rawls:
In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) has an important...
Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 1933859059 |
A Third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent economic and social considerations. Humanity was lurching blindly in the wrong direction, argued Schumacher....
| Author | Rudolf Carnap |
| ISBN | 0486283186 |
One of the most creative philosophers of the 20th century, Rudolf Carnap presented a series of science lectures at the University of California in 1958. The present volume is an outgrowth of that seminar, which dealt with the philosophical foundations of physics. Edited by Martin Gardner from transcripts...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020493 |
Stages on Life's Way, the sequel to Either/Or, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance...
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings
| Author | John R. Perry |
| ISBN | 0195112040 |
Introduction to Philosophy, 3/e is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, the third edition of this classic text now includes a general introduction and features eighteen selections...
How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0020160224 |
Dr. Adler, in his discussion, extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas. Without relying on faith, mysticism, or science (none of which, according to Dr. Adler, can prove or disprove the existence of God), he uses a rationalist argument to lead...
| Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| ISBN | 0023513209 |
The "greatness" of a nation and the individuals who illustrate this greatness, which, according to Hegel, has only one time and corresponds to a phase of expansion that can not last forever: it is the genius of a nation or people that captures that and brings the human, artistic, cultural, economic,...
The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion
| Author | Richard Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385096224 |
In his introduction, David Armstrong argues that Berkeley is studied because he was a trailblazer in philosophical thought, despite the fact that his assumptions are invalid. Berkeley actually made multiple attempts to convince others of his thesis, following this essay with a more casual style...
John Henry Cardinal Newman begins the Essay with a deffinition of development, pointing out that the real problem is how to distinguish true developments from corruptions and decays. He then goes on to sweeping consideration of the growth and development of doctrine in the Catholic Church, from the...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0674665635 |
This is a very good introduction to logic. Quine deals with technical details, as well as the considerations that go into navigating these technicalities this way or that way. I picked at "The Logic Book" but was always confused over just why these connectives and those operations were considered to...
