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Philosophy
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Consciousness Explained
A book-length theory of consciousness that draws on psychology, neuroscience and computing. Dennett's target is the Cartesian Theatre, the picture of a central place in the brain where…
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Against Method
A polemical book subtitled 'Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge', first planned as one half of a debate with Feyerabend's friend Imre Lakatos, who died before writing…
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Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
A book, subtitled 'Evolution and the Meanings of Life', arguing that natural selection is the best idea anyone has ever had and that its implications reach far beyond…
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Gender Trouble
A work of feminist theory, subtitled Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Butler questions whether feminism needs a stable category of women as its subject, arguing that such…
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Word and Object
Quine's most systematic book, a naturalistic study of how language connects with the world and of what our theories commit us to. It opens by treating language as…
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Minds, Brains and Science
The text of Searle's 1984 Reith Lectures for the BBC, six short chapters written for a general audience. The first deals with the mind–body problem and sets out…
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Prison Notebooks
The notes written by the Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci in Mussolini's prisons, where he was held from 1926. Working under censorship and illness, he filled some thirty…
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From a Logical Point of View
A collection of nine 'logico-philosophical essays' that contains two of the most cited papers in twentieth-century philosophy. 'On What There Is' asks what exists and offers a criterion…
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The View from Nowhere
A book about one problem that Nagel finds in every area of philosophy: how to combine the perspective of a particular person inside the world with an objective…
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History and Class Consciousness
A collection of essays on Marxist dialectics written by the Hungarian philosopher between 1919 and 1922, during and after the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, in which he served.…
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