books about: principia     books:       Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of ...75 reviews Malaclypse, Robert Anton Wilson, ... Loompanics Unlimited, 1980 The ULTIMATE post-modern religious text Simultaneously operating as a religion and a parody of religion, the Principia Discordia has acquired a cult following which I was surprised to discover is well-deserved. The Principia's juxtaposition of seemingly incompatible elements encourages confusion on the part of the reader. For instance, religious anecdotes and revelations are absurd to the point of idiocy; the constant didacticism ...             On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems13 reviews Kurt Gödel Dover Publications, 1992 One of the Best Books You Should Never Read Godel's incompleteness theorem's are without a doubt genious. However, this day in age, no logician actually reads Godel's original work unless they are only interested in the historical aspect of it. Godel himself is not a very good writer. If you want to study Godel's incompleteness theorems there are other books out there that prove his theorems in a much more refined, shorter, and easier ...             Principia Ethica (Principles of Ethics) (Philosophical Classics) G. E. Moore Dover Publications, 2004 First published in 1903, this volume revolutionized philosophy and forever altered the direction of ethical studies. It clarifies some of moral philosophy's most common confusions and redefines the science's terminology. 6 chapters explore: the subject matter of ethics, naturalistic ethics, hedonism, metaphysical ethics, ethics in relation to conduct, and the ideal.             The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy21 reviews Isaac Newton University of California Press, 1999 Excellent translation with helpful apparatus I am writing my dissertation on Newton and have found this translation incredibly helpful and surprisingly readable. The Principia is one of the most difficult and inaccessible books ever written -- so much so, in fact that even John Locke (himself a pretty smart guy) had to ask Christian Huygens to explain much of it to him. This difficulty was intentional, because Newton did not want ...             The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia3 reviews J. Bruce Brackenridge University of California Press, 1996 In depth look at dynamics This book is well written and everything is explained well. This book, however, is not for the layman. This is a book that one should work though not just read.             Metaethics after Moore Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Metaethics, understood as a distinct branch of ethics, is often traced to G. E. Moore's 1903 classic, Principia Ethica. Whereas normative ethics is concerned to answer first-order moral questions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse. Moore has continued to exert a powerful influence, and the ...             Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)13 reviews Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell Cambridge University Press, 1997 If you don't know know this book then you don't need it Let me try to give a balanced review. First this is a monumental work and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. I am not giving it five stars: this book earned them. With that said I don't think is the most influential book of the 20th century because such a book doesn't exist. In my opinion that kind of debate is totally misleading. However the five stars do not suggest that ...             The Principia (Great Minds)4 reviews Isaac Newton Prometheus Books, 1995 This is a key masterpiece in the history of Science. I bought this book not for the purpose of learning Classical Mechanics from it, but for the scientific curiosity of learning how the great Isaac Newton presented his revolutionary scientific ideas to the world. Of course, it is difficult to read. This is an old translation of a book written in Latin more than 300 years ago! This book is a jewel. Just like the original works of Einstein, Maxwell, ...             Principia Discordia14 reviews Steve Jackson Steve Jackson Games, 1994 Notes on this edition, my favorite The original Principia Discordia was very much mish mash of near random pages thrown together, and the pages themselves were changed and modified. I've always felt that it should be a continually evolving book, and with this edition including newly created pages, it hits closest to the spirit of discordianism (at least in my opinion). The other editions I've seen present it almost as a relic of ...             Principia Discordia - The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger4 reviews Malaclypse the Younger Exposure Publishing, 2007 It's magic I recently noticed that I couldn't find my purple version of this book. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it. But if that hadn't happened, I never would have known that there was a hard cover version out. Something mysterious is going on. You should buy this book.             The Nature of Intrinsic Value Michael J. Zimmerman Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001 At the heart of ethics lies the concept of intrinsic value. It is at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, and acts rightly or wrongly. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: what sort of thing has it, and how it is measured or quantified.             Principia Discordia27 reviews Illuminet Press, 1991 Genius! This book changed my life! I simply would not be who I am if not for this book.             Principia Ethica8 reviews G. E. Moore Cambridge University Press, 1993 A Seminal Text in Twentieth-Century Philosophy Moore's Principia Ethica is a central text in twentieth-century meta-ethics. According to the familiar history of the subject, the story of much of twentieth-century meta-ethics can be understood as a series of reactions to this book. In this book Moore argues for non-naturalistic intuitionism. He argues that moral properties are an irreducible part of reality, and that they are sui generis. ...             Newton's Principia for the Common Reader4 reviews S. Chandrasekhar Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Before you slag this book off, hold on a minute This book was written by the Indian-American Nobel Laureate who proved that the upper limit of white dwarf stars are incapable of being over 1.2 solar masses. Now Chandra(the author of this book), who was amongst the most meticulous of theorists and who worked with bigwigs like Dirac, Bethe, Fermi and Von Neumann amongst the most luminous, wrote this massive treatise on Newton's Principia. This ...             Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1822) Isaaco Newtono Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 Text Is In Italian.             Richard Nelson: Plays One Some Americans Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors, New England, Principia ... Richard Nelson Faber & Faber, 1999 This collection of Richard Nelson's plays brings together for the first time five of his major works in one volume. From the hilarious and poignant tale of an American school group in England in Some Americans Abroad to the emotional complexity of the relationship between two nineteenth-century actors in Two Shakespearean Actors, Nelson demonstrates the full range of his talent, creating works that are accessible, eloquent, amusing, and deeply ...              search for books americans, cambridge, classics, contemporary, discordia, dynamics, england, formally, goddess, intrinsic, library, malaclypse, mathematica, mathematical, metaethics, naturalis, philosophiae, philosophical, philosophy, principia, principles, problem, propositions, related, richard, scriptoriae, shakespearean, systems, undecidable, younger books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen kitchen: Turkish Coffee Set for Two Impressum - about us get your own free shoutbox