The Notebooks of Simone Weil
by Simone Weil | 
A Thousand Plateaus
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Karma Yoga
by Swami Vivekananda | 
The Philosophy Book
by Will Buckingham | 
Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan | 
Nature, Man and Woman
by Alan Watts | 
Practical Ethics
by Peter Singer | 
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
by Manly P. Hall | 
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity
by Iain D. Thomson | 
On Love and Loneliness
by Jiddu Krishnamurti | 
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
by Richard Rorty | 
Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
by Raymond Smullyan |
Reflections on the Human Condition
by Eric Hoffer | 
Improvement of the Understanding
by Baruch Spinoza | 
Outside Ethics
by Raymond Geuss | 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
by Christopher Grau | 
The Love of Wisdom
by Steven B. Cowan | 
The Visible and the Invisible
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty | 
Eastern Philosophy
by Mel Thompson | 
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought
by Paul Kleinman |
Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like - can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, Quine, Popper, and other thinkers. Real Essentialism reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry, the essence of life, the nature of biological species, and the nature of the person.