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The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle by W. K. C. Guthrie
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy - foundations that underpin Western thoug ...Show more
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol 2 by Karl Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
The legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx in this text prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems.
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1) by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original minds of the twentieth century. At the time of its first publication in 1957, it was hailed by Arthur Koestler a ...Show more
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly ...Show more
The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell delivers one of his most important works, exploring ...Show more
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.
The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment by Karl Raimund Popper
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to sho ...Show more
The World of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science – and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James Elkins Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the m ...Show more
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
1921 erschien der 'Tractatus logico-philosophicus' unter dem Titel "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung" erstmals; ein Jahr sp ter dann in deutsch-englischer Version unter dem gel ufigen Titel. Seit seinem Erscheinen gilt dieses einzige von Wittgenstein selbst ver ffentlichte Buch als schwierig und r tsel ...Show more