The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
10 best books like The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (Bertrand Russell): Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Rock Springs, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, Naming and Necessity
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
ISBN | 0465026567 |
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Author | Warren Ellis |
ISBN | 1563894459 |
After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Author | Immanuel Kant |
ISBN | 0521599628 |
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Author | Immanuel Kant |
ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Author | David Hume |
ISBN | 1420926993 |
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...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
Author | Richard Ford |
ISBN | 0099448971 |
Richard Ford with Raymond Carver
This collection of ten short stories published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series is Richard Ford at his best. Certainly, Ford would go on to write a string of first-rate novels, but these short stories are some of the finest American...
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost...
Author | Gottlob Frege |
ISBN | 0810106051 |
The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors and contemporaries to devastating analysis. The book represents the first philosophically sound...
Author | Saul A. Kripke |
ISBN | 0674598466 |
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...
Cien años de soledad: Sumario, analisis de laobra y estudio sobre el autor y su espoca
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
ISBN | 8434602601 |
" Las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tendrán una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra".