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…
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1. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition
By: Saul A. Kripke
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophic intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's ana… read more
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- philosophy
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2. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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3. Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism
By: Ray Brassier
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the … read more
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- philosophy
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4. Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays
By: Stanley Cavell
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissued with a new preface, this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of phi… read more
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- philosophy
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5. Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics
By: Tim Maudlin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and quantum theory. Relativity impos… read more
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- philosophy
6. Complete Works
By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
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- philosophy
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7. After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
By: Alain Badiou , Quentin Meillassoux , Ray Brassier
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of ph… read more
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- philosophy
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- metaphysics
- contemporary
8. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
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. Quantum Mechanics and Experience
By: David Z. Albert
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrat… read more
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14. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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15. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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16. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different fro… read more
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17. Critique of Judgment
By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more
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18. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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19. Elizabeth Costello
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more
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20. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
21. Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980
By: Richard Rorty
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and … read more
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22. 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
23. 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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- philosophy
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- contemporary
24. Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
By: Nelson Goodman
4.01
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, accordi… read more
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25. Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
By: Tim Maudlin
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the wo… read more
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26. Reason, Truth and History
By: Hilary Putnam
3.88
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosoph… read more
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- metaphysics
27. Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
By: James Ladyman
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowl… read more
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- metaphysics
"[...] proficiency in inferring the large-scale and small-scale structure of our immediate environment, or any features of parts of the universe distant from our ancestral stomping grounds, was of no …"-James Ladyman, Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
28. Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium
By: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
4.20
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates wi… read more
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29. Thinking and Being
By: Irad Kimhi
4.21
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Gree… read more
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30. Science, Perception and Reality
By: Wilfrid Sellars
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Philosophy and the Scientific Image of ManBeing and Being Known Phenomenalism The Language of Theor… read more
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"What is characteristic of philosophy is not a special subject-matter, but the aim of knowing one's way around with respect to the subject-matters of all the special disciplines."-Wilfrid Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality
31. Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
By: James O'Shea
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the … read more
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