16 must-read philosophy books like Filosofia della scienza by Giovanni Boniolo

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Filosofia della scienza

By: Giovanni Boniolo

3.25

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

"Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza" recita un celebre verso da…

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1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

By: Samir Okasha

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can sci… read more

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"It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science."

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"The failure of Popper's demarcation criterion throws up an important question. Is it actually possible to find some common feature shared by all the things we call 'science...'? It may be that they s…"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only inte…"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (PII). PII says that if …"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

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3. The Seducer's Diary

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Seducer's Diary records Johannes's discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, wh… read more

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4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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5. LMVDM. La mia vita disegnata male

By: Gipi

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Gipi ci racconta la sua vita: tra viaggi reali e psichedelici, problemi di salute e medici feticist… read more

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6. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

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7. 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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8. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

10. On the Shortness of Life

By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more

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11. Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more

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"In dreams begins responsiblities."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I don’t know what it means to live."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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12. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

13. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize ho… read more

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14. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has… read more

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15. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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16. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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17. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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18. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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19. 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

20. The Principles of Representative Government

By: None

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

Bernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us… read more

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21. 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

22. Apologie de Socrate/Criton

By: Plato , Luc Brisson

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On accuse Socrate de corrompre, par son art du dialogue, la jeunesse athenienne. On lui reproche de… read more

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23. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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24. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

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25. Filosofia della scienza

By: Giovanni Boniolo

3.25

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

"Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza" recita un celebre verso da… read more

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26. La filosofia antica. Profilo critico-storico

By: Franco Trabattoni

3.46

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

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27. Storia della filosofia morale

By: Gianfranco Mormino

3.90

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Il volume descrive come i massimi filosofi dell'Occidente abbiano affrontato il problema di rendere… read more

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28. Modelli di filosofia politica

By: Stefano Petrucciani

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

O volume constitui uma sintética introdução à filosofia política, apresentada por meio de seus conc… read more

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29. La filosofia moderna. Il Seicento e il Settecento

By: Giuseppe Cambiano

3.00

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Un profilo di storia della filosofia sui due secoli che vanno dalle grandi scoperte scientifiche di… read more

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30. La filosofia della scienza

By: Elena Castellani

3.50

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

La filosofia della scienza si pone l’obiettivo di descrivere e comprendere le specificità della sci… read more

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31. Bubble Democracy

By: Damiano Palano

4.13

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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4.11

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