Knowledge and Its Limits
By: Timothy Williamson
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stag…
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1. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
2. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
By: Richard Dawkins , Daniel C. Dennett
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals--known as "survival … read more
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3. 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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- philosophy
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4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.07
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Bos… read more
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
6. 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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7. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
8. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
9. 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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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. 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
12. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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13. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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14. 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
15. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.63
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more
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"What next? I couldn't imagine."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
16. 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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17. Knowledge and Lotteries
By: John Hawthorne
3.66
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consi… read more
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18. Equality and Partiality
By: Thomas Nagel
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account o… read more
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19. Knowledge and Its Limits
By: Timothy Williamson
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stag… read more
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20. From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis
By: Frank Jackson
3.53
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central to philosophical inquiry. In re… read more
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"[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start"-Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis
21. Philosophy and Probability
By: Timothy Childers
3.65
Format: 213 pages, ebook
Probability is increasingly important for our understanding of the world. What is probability? How … read more
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22. Joseph Butler: Five Sermons (Hackett Classics)
By: Joseph Butler
3.40
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Five Sermons by Joseph Butler. Edited by Stephen Darwall read more
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