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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge more books like this

by Edward Osborne Wilson

Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson argues that the entire world is orderly and can be explained by a number of natural laws. Wilson maintains that the ideas and goals of the Enlightenment have not been discredited and, in fact, are surging back to life.

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh

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 ...

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Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason more books like this

by Immanuel Kant

Kant devoted over 10 years to writing the "Critique of Pure Reason", one of the fundamental works in all of Western philosophy. In it, Kant considers basic philosophical questions--the nature of reason, experience, science, morality, religion, truth, and reality--and attempts to reconcile the two dominant philosophical schools of his day: the ...

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How We Think

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 ...

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Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Karl Marx: Selected Writings more books like this

by John Locke

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On Certainty

On Certainty more books like this

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson more books like this

by Jennifer Michael Hecht

A study on the role of skepticism in the development of intellectual and religious history celebrates the doubt-related activities of such figures as the Buddha, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Jefferson, noting their achievements as proponents for creativity, intellectual progress, and social change.

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The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man more books like this

by C S Lewis

C.S. Lewis here argues that objective value actually exists and that to believe otherwise is to create nonsense. Human beings appreciate values such as beauty and goodness because such things are part of reality. If absolute morality is denied there will not be any progress for mankind as the things that matter most will be explained away. "I am ...

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Construction of social reality

Construction of social reality more books like this

by John R. Searle

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

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Thinking Critically

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 ...

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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 ...

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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge more books like this

by Dan O'Brien

"An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge" guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition more books like this

by Wendell Berry

Berry's book is a response to E. O. Wilson's CONSILIENCE, which was published in 1998. Wilson feels that experiences, facts, and theories have a common source in natural law. Berry takes issue with this, believing that art, religion, and personal relationships cannot be measured in such terms.

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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:

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope & Limits more books like this

by Bertrand Russell, Earl

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we - as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In "Human Knowledge", Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge. First ...

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Philosophy & the Mirror of Nature more books like this

by Professor Richard Rorty

"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, ...

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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.

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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 ...

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There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives more books like this

by Robert H Hopcke

A Jungian psychotherapist explores the meaningful role that coincidence plays in our lives.

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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."

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The Social Construction of What? more books like this

by Ian Hacking

Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Particularly troublesome in this area is the status of the natural sciences, where there is conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness, and in other areas. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and ...

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