Author: Jelte

William James

Another easy-going introduction to the major philosophical quagmires.

Bertrand Russell

A wonderfully relaxed introduction to some (the?) major philosophical quagmires.

Werner Heisenberg

Gerald Schroeder

Immanuel Kant

Although not recommended in translation, this work forms a good introduction to Kant’s moral philosophy.  Read it before attempting Metaphysics of Morals.

What a classic! The first persuasive case for a modular cognitive architecture. Words signify ideas or complexes of ideas. A vital introduction for those pondering the important question of Nominalism vs. Realism.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer’s renunciation of Free Will. Best understood in conjugation with Kant’s metaphysics of transcendental freedom.

Alfred North Whitehead

Sets out to constrain as deeply as possible the absolute knowable nature of reality – especially time and space.  The best treatment of the philosophical implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity that I have come across.