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| x 'Psychological Egoism' | |||
| x Anarchy, State, and Utopia |
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a work of political philosophy written by Robert Nozick in 1974. This libertarian book was the winner of the 1975 National Book Award. It has been translated into 11 languages and was named one of the "100 most...
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| x Epiphenomenal Qualia | |||
| x Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong | |||
| x Is There a God? | |||
| x Meno |
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Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues (e.g. justice, temperance, etc...
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| x Minds, Brains, and Programs | |||
| x Of Pandas and People |
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Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE)....
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| x On the Heavens |
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On the Heavens (or De Caelo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: it contains his astronomical theory. It should not be confused with the spurious work On the Universe (De mundo, also known as On the Cosmos).
According to Aristotle, the...
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| x Principia Ethica |
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Naturalistic fallacy |
Principia Ethica is a Monograph by philosopher George Moore, first published in 1903. It is one of the standard texts of modern ethics, and introduced the term naturalistic fallacy.
Act Consequentialism exposition.
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| x The Book of Healing |
The Book of Healing (Arabic: الشفاء Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sanatio) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its English title, it is...
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| x Proslogion |
The Proslogion, (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title - Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to outline the attributes of God and understand how God can have all of...
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| x Republic |
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The Republic (original title in Ancient Greek: Πολιτεία/"Politeía", meaning "city-state governance") is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written c. 380 B.C.E.. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best...
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| x The God Delusion |
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Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit |
The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of...
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| x Theaetetus |
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The Theætetus (Greek: Θεαίτητος) is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge. The framing of the dialogue begins when Euclides tells his friend Terpsion that he had written a book many years ago based on what Socrates had told him...
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| x Method of Fluxions |
Method of Fluxions is a book by Isaac Newton. The book was completed in 1671, and published in 1736. Fluxions is Newton's term for differential calculus (fluents was his term for integral calculus). He originally developed the method at Woolsthorpe...
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| x A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions | |||
| x Theory of Games and Economic Behavior |
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, published in 1944 by Princeton University Press, is a book by mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern which is widely considered the groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary...
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| x Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica |
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Newton's law of universal gravitation |
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often called the Principia (sometimes Principia Mathematica), is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. Newton also...
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| x On Agriculture | |||
| x The Canon of Medicine |
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The Canon of Medicine (Arabic: القانون في الطب Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb "The Law of Medicine"; Persian: قانون طب Qanun "Law"; Latin: Canon Medicinae "Canon of Medicine"; Chinese: 回回藥方 / 回回药方 Huíhui Yàofāng "Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality") is a 14...
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| x Reasons and Persons |
Reasons and Persons is a philosophical work by Derek Parfit, published in 1986. It focuses on ethics, rationality and personal identity.
It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and...
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| x Meaning and Reference | Twin Earth thought experiment | ||
| x The Meaning of Meaning |
The Meaning of Meaning subtitled A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923) was co-authored by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. It is accompanied by the two...
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| x A Critique of Utilitarianism | |||
| x Methods of Ethics | |||
| x Carneades |
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Carneades (Greek: Καρνεάδης, Karneadēs, "of Carnea"; 214/3-129/8 BC) was an Academic skeptic born in Cyrene and the first of the philosophers to pronounce the failure of metaphysicians who endeavored to discover rational meanings in religious...
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| x The Romance of the Heavens | Partial impact theory | ||
| x De revolutionibus orbium coelestium |
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Heliocentrism |
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The book offered an alternative model...
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