 | Gorgias (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.01 It would feel like cheating to put in Plato's complete works, so I'm putting in this as my favourite of his books. And you can buy it for 1p!
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 | George Berkeley: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy) by George B Berkeley
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £7.36 Better than his Principles of Human Knowldedge. He very nearly convinces.
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 | The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection New Translations (Continuum Impacts) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £7.24 Not as wacky as it seems. If you're going to do metaphysics at all, you might as well do it properly!
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 | Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
Buy new: £14.88 / Used from: £1.78 On the other hand, you *could* just trash metaphysics. Still very often right when others are wrong ....
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 | The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Routledge Classics) by Immanuel Kant
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.60 .... for example. Still worth reading though. (Don't know why the translator gave it his own title. Cheeky fecker.)
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 | On Liberty (English Library) by John Stuart Mill
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspiring. A fundamentally good egg.
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 | Pragmatism: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by William James
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £2.99 Arguably, more rhetoric than good argument. But *such* rhetoric.
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 | Principia Ethica: With the Preface to the Second Edition and Other Papers by G. E. Moore
Buy new: £22.08 / Used from: £14.44 I confess to a sneaking fondness for this.
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 | The Concept of Mind (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gilbert Ryle
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £5.75 If you don't agree with Ryle, you are wrong.
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 | Sense and Sensibilia by J. L. Austin
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £9.43 Makes his opponents look prrretttty silly.
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by TS Kuhn
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.72 Let's get one thing 100% clear: Kuhn was *not* a relativist.
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 | Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Quine
Buy new: £24.65 / Used from: £14.00 Changed everything. Even if some people are trying to change it back.
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 | Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays Volume 2 (The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)) by Donald Davidson
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £10.00 The truth about truth. And interpretation.
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 | Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1 (The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)) by Donald Davidson
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £15.02 The truth about actions. And events.
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 | Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger
Buy used from: £12.68 QCT is Heidegger's masterpiece. As much poetry as it is philosophy.
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 | The World of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Buy new: £9.30 / Used from: £6.07 Basically Heidegger without the wacky bits.
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 | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
Buy used from: £10.10 A tour de force. Picks up where Quine left off.
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 | Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (Penguin science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy used from: £11.48 Best philosopher of mind since Ryle. (But you'd think somebody in the publishers would have noticed the 'see page 000's' by now!)
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 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £4.24 His definitive statement.
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 | Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology by Susan Haack
Buy new: £20.39 / Used from: £7.20 Although the word "foundherentism" will never catch on.
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 | Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction by Janet Radcliffe Richards
Buy new: £17.33 / Used from: £10.52 Dispels a lot of the imaginary terrors of evolutionary psychology and that sort of thing. (And also functions as an excellent introduction to informal logic.)
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 | Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition by Kim Sterelny
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £28.95 Great book on the implications of evolution for psychology. It's not going to go away you know.
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 | Paradoxes from A to Z by Michael Clark
Buy new: £11.61 / Used from: £10.40 More classic paradoxes than you can shake a stick at. This is a book every philosopher should have. He starts with Achilles and the tortoise and ends with Zeno's paradoxes. What a wag.
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 | Phenomenology and Existentialism by Robert C. Solomon
Buy new: £24.95 / Used from: £17.50 Excellent anthology.
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 | The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method by Rorty
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £12.45 Ditto.
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