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The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays

6 best books like The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (Hilary Putnam): The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
AuthorThomas S. Kuhn
ISBN0226458083
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
AuthorPeter Godfrey-Smith
ISBN0374227764
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
AuthorGeoffrey B. West
ISBN1594205582
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing,...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
AuthorMark Fisher
ISBN1846943175
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
AuthorNicholas Carr
ISBN0393339750
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing...
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
AuthorAlexander Waugh
ISBN0385520603
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.

The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
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