The Frege Reader
10 best books like The Frege Reader (Gottlob Frege): The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Principles of Mathematics, The Sixteen Satires, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, Computability and Logic, Studies in Words, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition, The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
| Author | Karl Popper |
| ISBN | 0415278449 |
We do not know: we can only guess.
Karl Popper originally wrote Logik der Forchung (The Logic of Research) in 1934. This original version—published in haste to secure an academic position and escape the threat of Nazism (Popper was of Jewish descent)—was heavily condensed at the publisher’s...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0393314049 |
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| Author | Juvenal |
| ISBN | 0140447040 |
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor, and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192835890 |
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the...
| Author | George S. Boolos |
| ISBN | 0521701465 |
Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521398312 |
Two kinds of people will read this book (and some would think they are one and the same--people like me who love the work of C. S. Lewis and will read anything he wrote, and people who love words and how their meanings develop and change over time.
This is a work of literary scholarship that explores...
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674954017 |
Kripke is brilliant, and I only regret that it took me until now to read and to appreciate him. He gives an amazing exegesis of Wittgenstein, who was also brilliant, but obfuscated the fact by making his case with rhetorical questions. Kripke has figured out the answers to the rhetorical questions, and...
| Author | Martha Stout |
| ISBN | 0142000558 |
"When we say a friend was 'like a different person,' we may be more right than we know."
-The Boston Globe
Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife?
How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install...
| Author | Kurt Gödel |
| ISBN | 0486669807 |
In 1931, a young Austrian mathematician published an epoch-making paper containing one of the most revolutionary ideas in logic since Aristotle. Kurt Giidel maintained, and offered detailed proof, that in any arithmetic system, even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which...
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...
