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10 best books like Reason, Truth and History (Hilary Putnam): The Castle of Otranto, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Two Treatises of Government, Leviathan, Animal Liberation, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock

The Castle of Otranto
AuthorHorace Walpole
ISBN0192834401
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
AuthorRobert D. Putnam
ISBN0743203046
Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."

Drawing on vast new data that reveal...
Two Treatises of Government
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0521357306
Those of us living in liberal democracies owe tremendous intellectual debt to John Locke. His "Second Treatise" in particular helped lay the foundation for a political system that emphasized "life, liberty, and property." The First Treatise is interesting to skim through, though it is in the second...
Leviathan
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0140431950
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...
Animal Liberation
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN0060011572
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
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,...
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...
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
AuthorPaul Bloom
ISBN0062339338
New York Post Best Book of 2016

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it.

Nothing...
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
AuthorPaul Bloom
ISBN0307886840
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized...
Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock
AuthorJ.L. Austin
ISBN0195003071
"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...
Naming and Necessity
AuthorSaul A. Kripke
ISBN0674598466
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...
How to Do Things with Words
AuthorJ.L. Austin
ISBN0674411528
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.

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