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Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this ...
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Critique of Pure Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Also referred to ...
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Pros: Kant herein seeks to show how metaphysics is possible: the punch line is that metaphysics concerns ... Cons: The project ultimately fails: not even Euclidean geometry or arithmetic, ... -
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Mythologies
Mythologies is the title of a book by Roland Barthes, published in 1957. It is a collection of essays taken from Les Lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social ...
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Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics, or Ta Ethika, is a work by Aristotle on virtue and moral character which plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. It consists of ten books based ...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized ...
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Pros: applicable to anyone with a scientific and/or creative mind. not at all a strictly scientific book. ... Cons: yeah, paradigm shift has become almost as annoying as "synergy." -
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh
N John Allen Paulos's book 'I think therefore I laugh: An alternative approach to Philosophy', he is inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's statement that one can write a comprehensive ...
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Here’s a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It’s Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this ...
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A Nietzsche Reader
The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the ...
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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
In this book, Christopher Taylor explores the relationship between the historical Socrates and the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues, and examines the enduring image of ...
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Philosophy in the Bedroom
Philosophy in the Bedroom (La Philosophie dans le boudoir) is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade in 1795 in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Depending on one ...
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