The Character of Consciousness
By: David J. Chalmers
3.90
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective wor…
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1. The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.89
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road and the bestselling Border Trilogy comes a taut,… read more
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"To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
"I know that small acts of valor may be all that is visible of great movements of courage within."-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
2. 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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- nonfiction
- science
"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
3. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- unfinished
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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- philosophy
5. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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- philosophy
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- psychology
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
6. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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7. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
8. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
9. 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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- philosophy
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10. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
11. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
12. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
13. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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14. Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs
By: Jacques Derrida , Newton Garver , David B. Allison
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Speech and Phenomena,Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic an… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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16. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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17. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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18. 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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19. Wholeness and the Implicate Order
By: David Bohm
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deepl… read more
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20. 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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21. How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
By: Chad Orzel
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In this international bestseller, Orzel explains the key theories of quantum physics, taking his do… read more
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22. 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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23. The Complete Works
By: William Shakespeare
4.28
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more
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24. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
25. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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26. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
27. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
28. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
29. The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters (Radical Thinkers)
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.99
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum na… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
30. The Character of Consciousness
By: David J. Chalmers
3.90
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective wor… read more
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- unfinished
- psychology
- artificial intelligence
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
31. Ideas
By: Edmund Husserl
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presents Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in which he seeks to found an a priori science in w… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- unfinished
