8 best-selling science books like Two Dogmas of Empiricism by Willard Van Orman Quine

Two Dogmas of Empiricism

By: Willard Van Orman Quine

4.02

Format: 25 pages, None

Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundame…

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1. Language, Truth, and Logic

By: A.J. Ayer

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First publishe… read more

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  • language
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"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... […"

-A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

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2. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

By: David Foster Wallace

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more

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4. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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5. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more

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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more

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

By: Paul Karl Feyerabend

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

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8. Theaetetus

By: Plato , Robin Waterfield

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

By: Martin Heidegger , None

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume are intriguing, challeng… read more

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10. The Problems of Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more

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11. 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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12. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

By: George Berkeley , 贝克莱 , 关文运

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjecti… read more

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  • philosophy
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13. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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14. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.86

Format: None pages,

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15. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

16. 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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17. 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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18. Naming and Necessity

By: Saul A. Kripke

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is … read more

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19. 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

20. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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21. 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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22. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

23. 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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24. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

25. Laches

By: Plato

4.00

Format: None pages,

There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is be… read more

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26. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more

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27. On Sense and Reference

By: Gottlob Frege

3.81

Format: 21 pages, None

In the philosophy of language, the difference between sense and reference was a concept of the Germ… read more

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28. The Last Messiah

By: Peter Wessel Zapffe

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more

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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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29. Was ist Metaphysik?

By: Martin Heidegger

3.91

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

"Was ist Metaphysik?" ist der Titel der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung Martin Heidegger an der Univ… read more

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30. On Denoting

By: Bertrand Russell

3.74

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Bertrand Arthur William Russell,18 May 1872-2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, m… read more

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31. Two Dogmas of Empiricism

By: Willard Van Orman Quine

4.02

Format: 25 pages, None

Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundame… read more

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Ecce Homo

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