Best Books of the 20th Century
1547 books |
9188 voters
Tom Morris's profile
|
10/05
Tom
is currently reading:
Epistemology: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by Ernest Sosa bookshelves: currently-reading |
my rating:
|
|
|
||
|
06/12
Tom
is currently reading:
Logic: Second Edition (Paperback) by Wilfrid Hodges bookshelves: currently-reading |
my rating:
|
|
|
||
|
05/29
Tom
is currently reading:
River Out of Eden (Science Masters) by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
my rating:
|
|
|
||
| June 24 | ||||
|
Tom Morris
marked as to-read:
Plato's Individuals (Paperback) by Mary M. McCabe bookshelves: to-read |
my rating:
|
||
|
|
||||
|
Tom Morris
marked as to-read:
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy (Hardcover) by Bernard Williams bookshelves: to-read |
my rating:
|
||
|
|
||||
| June 14 | ||||
|
Tom Morris
gave History of Western Philosophy (Paperback) by Bertrand Russell |
my rating:
|
||
|
read in June, 2009
|
||||
| June 05 | ||||
|
||||
|
Tom Morris
read and liked
W.H. Manville's
review of A History of Western Philosophy:
" Russell tells us that,"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." That being said, let me utter another warnin...more " | |||
|
Tom Morris
added:
Spunk & Bite: A writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language & style (Hardcover) by Arthur Plotnik |
my rating:
|
||
|
read in June, 2009
|
||||
| March 21 | ||||
|
Tom Morris
added:
The Problems of Philosophy (OPUS) by Bertrand Russell |
my rating:
|
||
|
read in March, 2009
|
||||
| January 22 | ||||
|
Tom voted on the poll: What book would the group like to read for discussion?
| ||||
| December 31, 2008 | ||||
|
Tom Morris
made a comment on
Best Books of the 20th Century:
| |||
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams
— Douglas Adams
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
— Douglas Adams
— Douglas Adams
"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. "
— Bertrand Russell (What I Believe)
— Bertrand Russell (What I Believe)
tags:
science
17 people liked it
Goodreads Feedback
— 2082 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
This is a place to give feedback about Goodreads. Feature ideas, bugs, or any other suggestion for improvement. The Goodreads staff monitors this gr...more
Philosophy
— 220 members
— last activity 1 day ago, 07:34PM
What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticis...more
Science and Inquiry
— 237 members
— last activity 18 days ago, 12:42PM
The Science and Inquiry group is focused on reading, rating, and discussing books on science, scientific inquiry, the history and philosophy of scienc...more
The Postmodern Discussion
— 86 members
— last activity 02/25/2009 09:53AM
A group devoted to the discussion of contemporary continental philosophy, postmodernism, poststructuralism, deconstructivism and other movements of cr...more
London on goodreads
— 37 members
— last activity 05/15/2008 03:53AM
For goodreads members living in London.
block this member *
No one yet.
never-ending quiz
questions answered:
0 (0.0%)
correct:
0 (0.0%)
skipped:
1 (100.0%)
338067 out of 338067
streak:
0
best streak:
0
questions added:
0
take the quiz »
polls voted on by this member


























