1wolfgang.smith
Looking for some new philosophy book suggestions! My favorite philosophy book of all time still remains Meditations by Marcus Aurelius but hoping for some new ideas!
3thorold
How about Petite philosophie du vélo by Bernard Chambaz?
4Cecrow
You must have read The Prophet, Khalil Gibran?
7urania1
Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is brilliant analysis of labor and capital, and is still timely. It is long and dense but well worth the effort. If you decide to tackle it, I recommend reading it simultaneously with David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital. Or you can go to YouTube and watch David Harvey’s class on the book.
8alco261
The Conduct of Inquiry is still my go-to book for philosophy of science. Over the decades I've read it several times.
"It is in the empirical component that science is differentiated from fantasy. An inner coherence, even strict self-consistency, may mark a delusional system as well as a scientific one. Paraphrasing Archimedes we may each of use declare, "Give me a premise to stand on and I will deduce a world!" But it will be a fantasy world except in so far as the premise gives it a measure of reality. And it is experience alone that gives us realistic premises."
"It is in the empirical component that science is differentiated from fantasy. An inner coherence, even strict self-consistency, may mark a delusional system as well as a scientific one. Paraphrasing Archimedes we may each of use declare, "Give me a premise to stand on and I will deduce a world!" But it will be a fantasy world except in so far as the premise gives it a measure of reality. And it is experience alone that gives us realistic premises."
