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1	Critique of Pure Reason more books like this by Immanuel Kant Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mind-thoughts, ideas, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Thinking Critically more books like this by John Chaffee, PH.D. Thinking Critically teaches the fundamental thinking, reasoning, reading, and writing abilities that students need for success. The text begins with basic skills related to personal experience and then carefully progresses to the more sophisticated reasoning skills required for abstract, academic contexts. The Ninth Edition maintains the hallmarks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| SVS
3	Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge more books like this by Edward Osborne Wilson In this work, the author argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls "consilience", the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. Edward O. Wilson, pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, breaks from the conventions of current thinking. He shows how our explosive rise in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Essay Concerning Human Understanding more books like this by John Locke John Locke's (1632-1704) reputation as an English philosopher in the history of Western thought rests above all on his "An Essay concerning Humane Understanding". In this, the founding document of British Empiricism, Locke attempted a complete account of human knowledge, its origin, scope and limits. He attacked the long-held Rationalist doctrine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Truth and method more books like this by Hans-Georg Gadamer Written in the 1960s, TRUTH AND METHOD is Gadamer's magnum opus. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different experiences of truth, he aims to "present the hermeneutic phenomenon in its fullest extent. see all copies from $13.86! new only from $19.75! \| SVS
6	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh more books like this by David Hume A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions
7	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding more books like this by David Hume Oxford Philosophical Texts Series Editor: John Cottingham The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge more books like this by Karl Popper Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Construction of social reality more books like this by John R. Searle 'John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents might find intolerably abrasive were it not for the good humour that pervades all he writes. This is a man who likes a good philosophical brawl.'New Scientist see all copies from $5.98! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives more books like this by Robert H Hopcke An account by a practising Jungian psychotherapist of Jung's theory that meaningful coincidences play important roles in our lives. Drawing on real-life examples, Hopcke teaches that we can understand and make synchronicity work to enable us to live richer, more satisfying lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	How We Think more books like this by John Dewey John Dewey, one of America's greatest popular philosophers and educators, emphasises the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education should play. In this progressive work, written more than 80 years ago, Dewey, recognising that we are born with the ability to think, argues that the educator's fundamental role is to train us to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference more books like this by Dr. William R Shadish, Thomas D Cook, Donald T Campbell This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell "Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings" represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation: Theoretical matters: Experimentation, causation, and validityQuasi-experimental design: Regression ... see all copies from $61.12! new only from $61.12! \| first editions
13 view cover	Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy more books like this by Michael Polanyi In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the exact sciences, "knowing" is an art, of which the skill of the knower, guided by his personal ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Critique of Judgment more books like this by Immanuel Kant Considered by Kant to be the culmination of his critical philosophy, "The Critique of Judgement" was the last work in the trilogy begun with "The Critique of Pure Reason" and continued with "The Critique of Practical Reason". In this work, Kant seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his ... see all copies from $5.45! new only from $5.45! \| SVS
15 view cover	What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable more books like this by John Brockman (Editor), Richard Dawkins (Afterword by), Steven Pinker (Introduction by) The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.03! \| SVS
16 view cover	Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity more books like this by Gregory Bateson A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.33! \| first editions
17 view cover	Theaetetus more books like this by Plato This series is intended to serve the needs of philosophers and students of philosophy interested in Plato in much the same way as those interested in Aristotle are served by the well-known Clarendon Aristotle Series. Each volume contains a new translation (usually of a single, medium-length dialogue), and exegetical and critical notes on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.66! \| SVS
18 view cover	Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition more books like this by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Editor), Leonard Oeikoff (Editor) Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature - and power - of man's conceptual ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $9.48! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Metaphysics more books like this by Aristotle Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of being in general rather than specifically of this or that sort. Accordingly, the salient task of the field is to achieve a clearer understanding of the concepts and principles of being, existence, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.23! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge more books like this by George Berkeley The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Experience of Philosophy more books like this by Daniel Kolak This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating in, the kind of philosophical thinking that can change the way they look at their lives and the world around them. Now in a new edition, "The Experience of Philosophy" features eighty-five readings ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief more books like this by Lewis Wolpert A unique, scientific look into why we are all believers. In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," the White Queen tells Alice that to believe in a wildly improbable fact she simply needs to "draw a long breath and shut her] eyes." Alice finds this advice ridiculous. But don't almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $2.92! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Human Knowledge: Its Scope & Limits more books like this by Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It is a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $37.94! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: The Paul Carus Translation more books like this by Immanuel Kant This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination more books like this by Jacob Bronowski see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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