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Philosophy
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Knowledge and Its Limits
A technical but influential work that reverses the usual order of epistemology. Since Gettier, many philosophers had tried to analyse knowledge as true belief plus some further condition.…
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The Burnout Society
A short essay, first published in German, by a Korean-born philosopher who teaches in Germany. Han argues that each age has its signature illnesses. The twentieth century was…
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Essays on Actions and Events
A collection of Davidson's essays on action, events and the mind, arranged in three groups. The first, on intention and action, opens with 'Actions, Reasons, and Causes' (1963),…
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On Certainty
A sequence of numbered remarks that Wittgenstein wrote in the last year and a half of his life, some only days before his death, published in 1969 by…
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Course in General Linguistics
A book published three years after Saussure's death, reconstructed by his colleagues Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, with Albert Riedlinger, from students' notes of three courses he gave…
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Naming and Necessity
Three lectures given without notes at Princeton in January 1970, published first in a collection and then as a book. Kripke attacks the view, associated with Frege and…
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A History of Western Philosophy
A one-volume history of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the early twentieth century, which grew out of lectures Russell gave at the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania during…
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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
A book, subtitled 'An Elementary Exposition', in which Kripke presents what he finds in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: a new form of scepticism about meaning. Suppose you have never…
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Principia Mathematica
A three-volume work of mathematical logic that tries to show that mathematics can be derived from logic alone, the programme known as logicism. Whitehead and Russell began it…
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On the Plurality of Worlds
A defence of modal realism, developed from Lewis's John Locke Lectures at Oxford. Lewis holds that there are countless possible worlds, each as concrete as ours and spatio-temporally…
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