8 Top philosophy books like Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars

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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

By: Wilfrid Sellars

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and…

"Conceptual thinking is not by accident that which is communicated to others, any more than the decision to move a chess piece is by accident that which finds an expression in a move on a board between two people."

-Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

"Conceptual thinking is not by accident that which is communicated to others, any more than the decision to move a chess piece is by accident that which finds an expression in a move on a board between two people."

-Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

If you liked the philosophy plot in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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2. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

3. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

By: Paul Karl Feyerabend

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

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4. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more

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5. Against the Day

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more

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6. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

By: Richard Rorty

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, … read more

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7. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardoris one of Nabokov's greatest master… read more

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8. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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9. Philosophical Investigations

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more

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10. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

11. Sophist

By: Plato , Nicholas P. White

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to spe… read more

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12. On Certainty

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Georg Henrik von Wright , G.E.M. Anscombe , None

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Written over the last 18 months of his life & inspired by his interest in G.E. Moore's defense of c… read more

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13. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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14. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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15. Vineland

By: Thomas Pynchon

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more

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16. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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17. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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18. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

By: Wilfrid Sellars

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and… read more

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"Conceptual thinking is not by accident that which is communicated to others, any more than the decision to move a chess piece is by accident that which finds an expression in a move on a board betwee…"

-Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

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19. Mind and World

By: John McDowell

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the wo… read more

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20. On What There Is

By: Willard Van Orman Quine

3.55

Format: 18 pages, None

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21. Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay

By: Willem A. Devries

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Sellars' s argument in EPM is enormously rich, subtle, and compelling. It is also, for the uniniti… read more

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Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Paul Karl Feyerabend

2.78

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4.12

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Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

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Wilfrid Sellars

4.27

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Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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White Noise

Don DeLillo

3.86

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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