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 Consilience: The Unity of KnowledgeBest Price: $5.75 EO Wilson is one of the most brilliant modern biologists I know, and as a physican-biologist I... |  The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and WhyBest Price: $8.17 Overall, I have mixed feelings about this book and came away fairly disappointed. For me, the... |  Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal InferenceBest Price: $55.60 The book arrived in good shape and withing promised time. However when I order books from other... |  On TruthBest Price: $7.06 I should have been tipped off the worth of "On Truth" by its small size -- merely 2... |  What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the UnthinkableBest Price: $4.37 the title, "What is your dangerous idea" is subjective and emotional. a question asked... |
 ObjectivityBest Price: $24.29 Received it quickly and in great condition. Cheapest price for a brand new product I could find... |  The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library) (The Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $10.14 The Enlightenment was the turning point that created the World as we know it. The transition... |  Philosophy and the Mirror of NatureBest Price: $18.71 Rorty writes well and if you met him, you know he was a clever guy and a nice guy. But as a... |  An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingBest Price: $3.00 This review mostly concerns the Enquiry. The Letter is primarily a defense of Hume's earlier... |  Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)Best Price: $11.00 Written with atypically clear prose and full of wit and insight. Sir Popper is truly one of the... |
 What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of CertaintyBest Price: $4.99 As a scientist I approached this book with a lot of expectations. I wanted to know what the... |  Warranted Christian BeliefBest Price: $19.62 ...so goes the single thesis of this book, and is the single principle at work in fending off... |  Selected WritingsBest Price: $6.49 A good introduction but the professor's introductions are sycophantic, eulogizing and unbearably... |  Knowledge And DecisionsBest Price: $18.74 this book was well written and clearly thought out. A wonderful explanation of economic... |  Critique of Pure ReasonBest Price: $11.68 Because of the very negative reviews of the Guyer/Wood translation on this page, I have been... |
 Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonBest Price: $6.00 I hate the term "popular" history. It seems to imply something written in a back room... |  Three essays on universal law: The laws of Karma, will, and loveBest Price: $6.95 Concepts clearly defined, processes explained logically, distinctions made between physical and... |  Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and ConstructivismBest Price: $15.89 This is a polite book on a very controversial subject--the current prominence of relativist and... |  Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)Best Price: $5.67 Another book I read while getting my BA in Philosophy at UCLA and one of only two literary works... |  Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second EditionBest Price: $7.99 This book is an attempt to defend a new theory of concept formation, which Rand hopes will... |
 Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through MythBest Price: $10.98 I wasn't too crazy about this book. When a book randomly jumps around to the mythology of... |  Against MethodBest Price: $18.00 Feyerabend's "Against Methods" is one of my favorite books, although I prefer the... |  Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (Contours of Christian Philosophy)Best Price: $10.75 Epistemology, of course, is the term used to denote how we think. Epistemology seeks to answer... |  Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)Best Price: $19.64 The content of this book is indeed insightful and thought provoking but Bateson's writing style... |  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World ViewBest Price: $6.99 I awaited enthusiastically , only to find a long rambling hype ,that has been better discussed... |
 Ideas Have ConsequencesBest Price: $13.47 Thesis The philosophical loss of absolutes/universals ultimately results in the loss of truth,... |  The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All TimeBest Price: $5.75 This book needs to be updated to include modern greats, such as Einstein etc. Otherwise, an... |  Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic PragmatismBest Price: $30.40 Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its... |  A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts)Best Price: $7.91 If you are looking to buy Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, buy another edition. In addition to... |  The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human UnderstandingBest Price: $25.60 In The Meaning of the Body , Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting... |
 The Philosophy of Philosophy (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy)Best Price: $23.17 The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy , this volume offers an... |  Thought as a SystemBest Price: $20.15 An excellent mindful achievement reaching a new understanding about thoughts and thinking in our... |  Second Nature: Brain Science and Human KnowledgeBest Price: $7.15 I took this book on a vacation, and left it behind half-read in Italy. I hope some reader there... |  Causality: Models, Reasoning, and InferenceBest Price: $38.50 Judea Pearl is one of the leading researchers in the topic of casuality. What is causality? In... |  An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingBest Price: $6.95 It has been many years since I pondered and repondered over this volume. Locke is an important... |
 Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern SuperstitionBest Price: $7.99 This book certainly creates controversy as the disparate ratings from one to five stars... |  The Construction of Social RealityBest Price: $6.33 In this book, Searle's project is to give an account of the existence of social phenomena in a... |  Knowledge of God (Great Debates in Philosophy)Best Price: $26.81 "Knowledge of God" is part of a debate series. It's difficult to locate this book,... |  On CertaintyBest Price: $6.00 It may be useful to think of Wittgenstein's concept of 'certainty' as akin to '(any)action... |  The World of Perception (Routledge Classics)Best Price: $11.09 As a scholar whose intellectual life has been continually guided and inspired by the work of... |
 Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical ThoughtBest Price: $29.03 Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts???concepts, in particular, of... |  Prisoners of Belief: Exposing & Changing Beliefs That Control Your LifeBest Price: $7.99 Prisoners of Belief: Exposing & Changing Beliefs That Control Your Life by Matthew McKay ... |  A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Death Scene), Allegory of the CaveBest Price: $19.99 Christopher Biffle's A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato is an ideal introduction to the study... |  IB Theory of Knowledge Course Companion: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB Diploma Programme)Best Price: $36.12 Developed in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Oxford's Course... |  Chaffee Thinking Critically Ninth EditionBest Price: $47.97 I used this book for a undergrad class and was not impressed at all. To me it came across as... |
 Philosophical HermeneuticsBest Price: $18.00 |  The Slightest PhilosophyBest Price: $12.43 These days post-modernist philosophy haunts American universities like the undead haunt shopping... |  The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)Best Price: $12.50 It isn't clear how Jacob Bronowski came to be delivering the Silliman lectures for 1967 at Yale... |  Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal ControlBest Price: $31.29 My Psychologist suggested I read this book. I was going through a divorce that was not by my... |  A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical NovelBest Price: $16.99 As a person that chose a career of poor person's mathematics i.e., Computer Science, instead of... |
 The View From NowhereBest Price: $19.95 Tom starts with somewhat humble attitude (at least he makes that impression) about the whole... |  Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary ApproachBest Price: $25.00 Popper's principal theories are summarized in this excellent compendium, save his political and... |  Problems of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to EpistemologyBest Price: $26.92 It is amazing how much one can learn and clarify with this remarkable book. At the same time it... |  IB Mathematical Studies Course Companion: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB Diploma Programme)Best Price: $39.15 We used this book in our class as preperation for the exam and it seems to be really helpful... | |
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