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- Derek SiversInterview
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. The other philosophers I read refer to it as the work that changed everything.
- The Most Important Philosophy BooksReading list
Although I keep changing my mind about how to rank the most important philosophy books, I have never changed my mind about whether Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is the greatest. In its depth, breadth, fertility, and endless capacity to stimulate and fascinate, it stands as an unrivalled monument to philosophical…
- Luciano FloridiInterview
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. It made me a constructionist, someone who sees knowledge as a synthesis of world’s data and mind’s interpretation, to put it very simply. Our knowledge of the world is not a representation, it is an elaboration of its raw, constraining affordances.
- Stathis PsillosInterview
It’s a philosophy book: A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume. I read it when I was seventeen and made me want to become a philosopher. It was published in 1739 and was initially under-appreciated because of its scepticism. Hume replaced the traditional conception of reason as the master of human affairs with a…
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