The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
10 best books like The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (William James): Selected Essays, Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980, Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays, Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics, Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Reason, Truth and History, Reason in History, The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings Volume 1: 1867-1893, On Politics and Ethics
| 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 | Richard M. Rorty |
| ISBN | 0816610649 |
Rorty seeks to tie philosophy’s past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified version of pragmatism that offers new...
| Author | Stanley Cavell |
| ISBN | 0521529190 |
Cavell is really one of the legends in philosophy of language, and really underappreciated by those who are outside of the sub-discipline. Because so much of the 20th century analytic literature is about language, even when it's not the direct object of study, reading Cavell is really useful for understanding...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674867114 |
What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally...
| Author | Donald Davidson |
| ISBN | 0199246289 |
Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into...
| Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| ISBN | 0674323513 |
These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide...
| Author | Hilary Putnam |
| ISBN | 0521297761 |
اگر کسی بخواهد دورهی «رئالیسم درونی» پاتنم را بخواند، باید اول سراغ این کتاب بیاید. قبل از این کتاب، پاتنم دو مقاله دارد که در آنها به شکل تکنیکال استدلال...
| 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 Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings Volume 1: 1867-1893
| Author | Charles Sanders Peirce |
| ISBN | 0253207215 |
This convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. Volume 1 presents twenty-five key texts, chronologically arranged, beginning with Peirce's "On a New List...
| Author | Thomas Aquinas |
| ISBN | 0393952436 |
The selections not only include St. Thomas Aquinas’s views on government, law, war, property, and sexual ethics, but also provide the theological, epistemological, and psychological background for his political and ethical thought, including the Five Proofs on the existence of God and Aquinas’s...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020817 |
In many ways, this book is necessary while also being provocative. Whether you are Christian or not, though particularly if you are, this book could very well be necessary. As S.K. often said, basically, “In this day and age… this book is necessary.” The same could be said for today. As many Christians...
| Author | Frederick Charles Copleston |
| ISBN | 0385470444 |
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...
| Author | Paul M. Churchland |
| ISBN | 0262530740 |
In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that...
| Author | John Dewey |
| ISBN | 1417908459 |
1929. The Gifford Lectures. Contents: Escape from Peril; Philosophy's Search for the Immutable; Conflict of Authorities; The Art of Acceptance and the Art of Control; Ideas at Work; The Play of Ideas; The Seat of Intellectual Authority; The Naturalization of Intelligence; The Supremacy of Method;...
| Author | Susan Haack |
| ISBN | 1591024587 |
Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls...
| Author | Ernest Barker |
| ISBN | 0313224099 |
I came into Grinnell College with a lot of advanced placement credit in English and History. Consequently, expecting to spend four years there, I spent the first two years only occasionally thinking about requirements, mostly taking what I was interested in. Since the war in Southeast Asia was on everyone's...
| Author | Walter Kaufmann |
| ISBN | 0691020019 |
I'm not sure I'll ever be capable of cohering the various strands of Kaufmann's extended, occasionally meandering argument and present it as a review—but I took fairly copious notes back in July during the reading of this, and am, here and there, going to be plopping them down below, perhaps to be assembled,...
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0521531829 |
What is it to grieve for the death of a parent? More literary and experiential than other philosopical works on emotion, Upheavals of Thought will engage the reader who has ever stopped to ask that question. Emotions such as grief, fear, anger and love seem to be alien forces that disturb our thoughts...
Minds, Brains and Science
| Author | John Rogers Searle |
| ISBN | 0674576330 |
Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and...
| Author | Susan Neiman |
| ISBN | 0691117926 |
Evil threatens reason. It challenges our hope that things make sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Now we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.
Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary...
