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Philosophy
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Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
A critical study of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice that became a founding text of the communitarian critique of liberalism, though Sandel himself has questioned the label.…
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Language, Truth and Logic
A short, combative manifesto that brought the ideas of the Vienna Circle to English readers, written by Ayer in his mid-twenties after a stay in Vienna. Its central…
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Reason, Truth and History
A book in which Putnam sets out his 'internal realism' and tries to find a path between a copy theory of truth and cultural relativism. Chapter 1 opens…
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The Logical Structure of the World (Der logische Aufbau der Welt)
A systematic treatise, usually called simply the Aufbau, in which Carnap tries to show how all the concepts of science could be rationally reconstructed from a narrow base…
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
An attack, from inside analytic philosophy, on the idea that philosophy is a foundational discipline that judges the claims of other fields. Rorty traces this self-image to the…
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Popper's first published book, a treatise on how science works that he later expanded into English with many new appendices. It starts from two problems: induction, which Hume…
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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
A long essay, first given as three lectures in London in 1956 and published that year, now usually read as a short book with a study guide by…
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
A short book, first published as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, that changed how historians and philosophers describe scientific change. Kuhn argues that a…
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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
A short book that combines a 1946 lecture on counterfactual conditionals with three lectures given in London in 1953. The first part shows how hard it is to…
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Proofs and Refutations
A study of how mathematics grows, written mostly as a classroom dialogue between a teacher and students named after Greek letters. It developed from Lakatos's doctoral thesis, appeared…
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