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What Computers Can't Do Hubert L. Dreyfus
Hubert L. Dreyfus · 1972; revised 1979 and 1992
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Advanced Continental
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel · 1987
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Beginner Analytic
What Is This Thing Called Science? Alan Chalmers
Alan Chalmers · 1976
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Beginner Analytic
What We Owe the Future William MacAskill
William MacAskill · 2022
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Beginner Analytic
What We Owe to Each Other T. M. Scanlon
T. M. Scanlon · 1998
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Advanced Analytic
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga · 2011
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Advanced Analytic
Why God Became Man (Cur Deus Homo) Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury · 1094–1098
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Intermediate Medieval Christian
Why I Am Not a Christian Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell · 1927 (lecture); collection 1957
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Essays Beginner Analytic
Why Not Socialism? G. A. Cohen
G. A. Cohen · 2009
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Beginner Analytic
Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. · 1964
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Beginner African & Africana
Wild Ivy Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin Ekaku · 1766
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Memoir & biography Intermediate Buddhist
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke · 1982
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Intermediate Analytic
Wittgenstein's Poker David Edmonds and John Eidinow
David Edmonds and John Eidinow · 2001
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History Beginner Analytic
Women and Economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898
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Intermediate American
Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis · 1981
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History Beginner African & Africana
Word and Object W. V. O. Quine
W. V. O. Quine · 1960
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Advanced Analytic
Xunzi Xunzi
Xunzi · 3rd century BCE (compiled; some chapters probably by his students)
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Intermediate Chinese
Yoga Sūtras Attributed to Patañjali
Attributed to Patañjali · c. 2nd century BCE–5th century CE (dates debated)
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Intermediate Indian
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
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Fiction Intermediate American
Zhuangzi Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi · 4th–3rd century BCE
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Intermediate Chinese