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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous 3 reviews
George Berkeley
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1979
A reader-friendly introduction to Berkeley.
+ A classic of Western Philosophy
This Oxford Philosophical Texts student edition of George Berkeley's best known work features a helpful introduction, glossary, and notes by philosopher Jonathan Dancy (author of _Berkeley: An Introduction_ and editor of the Oxford Philosophical Texts edition of Berkeley's _Treatise concerning ...
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition 16 reviews
Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
Harvest Books, 2000
Philosophy alive
+ Akin to a TV show; a layman's view of semiotics
+ Well done Alastair McEwen (Translator)
I read the review of Simon Blackburn trashing the book: Eco made a few mistakes concerning the two dogmas of empiricism (he confused Davidson's work with Quine's first dogma). So I am sure many readers hesitated after a review by such a rigorous big gun thinker as Blackburn. When I started reading ...
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (Volume 2) 1 review
Reni Descartes
Cambridge University Press, 1985
A rationalist approach to controlling human passions
I read Descartes The Passions of the Soul from the Philosophical Works Of Descartes, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothhoff, Dugald Murdoch, for a graduate class in ethics. This is the best translation of several I examined. I was particularly interested in studying Descartes' ...
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)11 reviews
Karl R. Popper
Routledge, 2002
How do we know what we know? We don't, we only guess...
+ A luminous beacon: Karl Popper's non-authoritarian system of knowledge
+ A must read
+ My conjecture on this book
+ Conjectures and Refutations
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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)1 review
Cambridge University Press, 1994
Good introduction to great Rationalist
Leibniz has often been called the last great 'universal genius.' An extraordinary polymath who mastered virtually everything intellectual and made outstanding contributions to science, mathematics, philosophy, law, and other areas and who co-invented the calculus with Newton (along with better ...
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide : ...9 reviews
David Hume, Richard H. Popkin
Hackett Publishing Company
Slender paperback stuffed with ideas
+ solid
+ One of those books often cited but not necessarily read
+ Classic statement of arguments against God's existence
+ Pretty Dense, Very thought provoking
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (Volume I)3 reviews
René Descartes
Cambridge University Press, 1985
Valuable Collection for specialists and non-specialists.
+ Descartes
+ A rationalist approach to controlling human passions
This "new" (1985) translation by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch is a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of philosophy, early modern thought, or the history of the subject. I've never been the biggest fan of Descartes' philosophies, but CSM do a wonderful job of ...
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics)19 reviews
Karl Popper
Routledge, 2002
The most Spirited Attack on the method of Induction yet devised
+ Great Book
+ Puts Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" to shame!
+ Essential Reading
+ A philosphical classic
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Theoretical Philosophy after 1781 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)
Immanuel Kant
Cambridge University Press, 2002
This volume is the first to assemble the writings that Kant published to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterwork, the 1781 Critique of Pure Reason. The Prolegomena is often recommended to students, but the other texts are also important representatives of Kant's intellectual development. The series includes copious linguistic notes and a glossary of key terms. ...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding15 reviews
David Hume, Eric Steinberg
Hackett Publishing Company, 1993
A comment on one part of Hume 's classic
+ Human Understanding -- if not by logic, how does Hume "know" all this?
+ Not An Ending, But A Beginning
+ Descartes' Ultimate Error
+ Hume at his best
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The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque 9 reviews
Gilles Deleuze
University of Minnesota Press, 1993
one of Deleuze's very best
+ On the Translation
+ Between Two Worlds
+ A Refined Work of Philosophy
+ A Key of sorts
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Kant: A Biography10 reviews
Manfred Kuehn
Cambridge University Press, 2001
A clear view on one of the greatest masters
+ Explore the life of a Prussian Genius
+ indispensable
+ This is modern, but it doesn't rock.
+ An Excellent Biography
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Critique of Pure Reason37 reviews
Immanuel Kant
Cambridge University Press, 1999
The Issue of Translation
+ Great Edition
+ Poor Binding
+ a good translation
+ seminal work of the greatest of philosophers
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Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales ...1 review
Springer, 1999
Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion
The hope is that this volume will aid and abet those seeking to understand Leibniz's world of ideas, especially religious ones, and his place in intellectual history. The sense is that a much richer Leibniz emerges from seeing him as a man with very broad interests and curiosity. In the course of ...
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What is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula & Other Logical Puzzles15 reviews
Raymond Smullyan
Prentice Hall, 1978
Good Intro to a DEEP Subject
+ Satisfied Customer
+ Should be mandatory read at school
+ Great Book
+ A wonderful workout for your brain
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Philosophical Essays4 reviews
Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz, Roger Ariew, ...
Hackett Publishing Company, 1989
A necessary compendium of a formidable oeuvre
+ Great working translation of key works.
The greatness of Leibniz is undermined by the vastness of his oeuvre. It stands of no single definitive works. Like the monads that he espoused, Leibniz's writings are here, there and everywhere, each bit mirroring the whole--the universe that Leibniz envisioned. Short of an encyclopedia of ...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)43 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Routledge, 2001
A sophisticated tool set for handling ideas
+ This is the ONLY worthy review
+ A must read even if you are not into philosophy of language.
+ Not for the average reader but thorough, if not at times tedious, in acomplishing its task...
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers101 reviews
David Edmonds, John Eidinow
Harper Perennial, 2002
Ring of Fire
+ Love Believes the Resurrection
+ Evaporation of Problem vs. Puzzle
+ Great fun as an introduction or a refresher
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding8 reviews
John Locke
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1996
Worth Re-Cognising
+ One of the major works in Western Philosophy
+ Locked Into Reason 18th Century Style
Any search for this text will result in a plethora of commentaries upon it, whilst it itself seems almost doomed to take second place. The importance of this work to philosophy cannot be underestimated; Descartes is held in common perception to be the figure who changed the course of philosophy. ...
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The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality1 review
Cornell University Press, 1979
Great Reader in the Metaphysics of Modality
The Possible and the Actual is one of the best, if not the best, readers in the metaphysical of modality. It is comprised of 15 different essays (12 of which have been previously published). The 15 essays focus around two "themes": the nature/status of possible worlds and the problem of transworld ...
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