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Pragmatism
by William JamesPragmatism is a series of lectures by William James, who is often referred as “Father of American Psychology”. Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition evolved in the later decades of 18th century by the three most important philosophers including the author himself along with John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce. Pragmatists contend that most phil..
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
by A. D. LindsayForward There is a story that Schopenhauer used to begin his lectures on Kant by saying: "Let no one tell you what is contained in the Critique of Pure Reason." The writer of this little book hopes that no one will imagine that he has disregarded this warning. There are no short-cuts to the understanding of a great philosopher, and the..
Eureka - A Prose Poem
by Edgar Allan PoeEureka is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe which he subtitled "A Prose Poem", though it has also been subtitled as "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe". Adapted from a lecture he had presented, Eureka describes Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe with no antecedent scientific work done ..
Symbolic Logic
by Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll presents a delightfully light-hearted approach to predicate logic, in illustrating the very principles of logic that underly even the furthest reaches of mathematical practice. In many ways, a fascinating book, though I do admit I didn't actually do all of the exercises and quite a lot of the stuff was already known to me, I still enj..
Anticipations
by H. G. WellsH.G. Wells, one of the self claimed social prophets expressed his thoughts on the effects of scientific advancement in human lives, which changed the way the business and life getting moved without the right disintegrating elements. He also foresee the present form of democracy can not lead the society to acceptable change and a new republic could ..
The Discovery of the Future
by H. G. WellsH. G. Wells' philosophical lecture explores the human mind through his speech The Discovery of the Future, which characterizes the human brains driving principles to deal with what has happened and what would happen. While humans are comfortable and slightly biased towards the past, ability to discover the unknown future is consistently driven by t..
The Coming of the Fairies
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Coming of the Fairies is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This nar..
Essays of Michel de Montaigne Complete
byThe Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of t..