Favorite or Recommended Books

• Plato's Republic (COMING SOON: An electronic companion to Plato's Republic).
• Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (Coming at some point in the future: An electronic companion to Hume's Enquiry).
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
• Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke
• Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Saul Kripke
  (My electronic companion to Kripke's notorious Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is online. Click on the title to get to the Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language Ultimate HomePage.)
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanual Kant
• What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan
• The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
• From a Logical Point of View by W.V. Quine
• Ontological Relativity and other essays by W.V. Quine
• The Greek Philosophers by W.K.C. Guthrie
• The Secret Connexion by Galen Strawson
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson
• The Tao Speaks adapted by Tsai Chih Chung
• Hogan by Curt Sampson
• Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate by Susan Haack
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir by Norman Malcolm
• Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
• Language, Truth and Logic by A.J. Ayer
• Theories and Things by W.V. Quine
• The Ways of Paradox and other essays by W.V. Quine
• Zen Buddhism: A History by Heinrich Dumoulin
• The Pursuit of Truth (revised edition) by W.V. Quine
• The Double Helix by James B. Watson
• Methods of Logic by W.V. Quine
• The Plato Cult by David Stove
• The Web of Belief by W.V. Quine and Joseph Ullian
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
• Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
• Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
• Analects by Confucius
• The Way and its Power by Arthur Waley
• The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan
• The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
• The End of Science by John Horgan

(1) "The world is all that is the case." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

(2) "To be is to be the value of a variable" - W.V. Quine

(3) "Philosophy bakes no bread" - Bertrand Russell

(4) "Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers." - Cicero

(5) "To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it" - Socrates in Plato's Theaetetus

(6) "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." - Stephen Jay Gould

(7) "The real is the rational and the rational is the real." - G.W.F. Hegel

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