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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 5,415 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 483,694 ratings — published 1988
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 201,969 ratings — published 1848
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,266 ratings — published 1940
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 518 ratings — published 2018
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,865 ratings — published 1847
The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,022 ratings — published 1999
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 285,438 ratings — published 1991
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,262 ratings — published 1991
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 9,156 ratings — published 1880
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 335,423 ratings — published 2020
The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,419 ratings — published 1994
The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,004 ratings — published 2001
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
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avg rating 4.09 — 552 ratings — published 1998
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 209,959 ratings — published 2017
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,653 ratings — published 2014
How to Read Lacan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 3,601 ratings — published 2006
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,831 ratings — published 1912
Classical Indian Philosophy (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 128 ratings — published 2020
Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 613 ratings — published 2018
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 19,172 ratings — published 1917
This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,482 ratings — published 2020
The Search for Meaning: A Short History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 86 ratings — published 2007
The Plain Person's Guide to Plain Text Social Science (ebook)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 2)
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avg rating 3.45 — 3,904 ratings — published 2001
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,495 ratings — published 2009
Introdução ao Estudo do Método de Marx (Pocket Book)
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avg rating 4.37 — 129 ratings — published 2011
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #7)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
The Official DVSA Guide to Driving Buses and Coaches: DVSA Safe Driving for Life Series (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 388 ratings — published
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 717 ratings — published 1949
Wages, Price and Profit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,060 ratings — published 1898
Introdução à lógica (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 64 ratings — published 2001
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,289 ratings — published 1920
The Lessons of October (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 247 ratings — published 1924
Stalinism and Bolshevism: Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth International (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 64 ratings — published 1977
The Programme of the International (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.75 — 32 ratings — published
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 587 ratings — published 1938
In Defence of the October Revolution (unknown)
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avg rating 4.58 — 55 ratings — published 1932
Articles on the Revolutionary Press (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 13 ratings — published 2022
The Official Highway Code (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,625 ratings — published 1931
De wereld als verschijning (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 25 ratings — published
The Little Book of Cosmology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 291 ratings — published
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 67,734 ratings — published 2014
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 58,013 ratings — published 64
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 31,249 ratings — published 1994
What is Music?: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 1993
Arte Contemporânea: Uma Introdução (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 50 ratings — published 1992
India: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,100 ratings — published 2000
“Doğayı idrak insana özgüdür. Elinizdeki metin günümüz “post-truth” tartışma rüzgarlarının sığlığında, bilimin ve bilimselciliğin birbirine karıştırıldığı, bilim kurumlarının bilimsellikten bile isteye uzaklaştırıldığı, entelektüel kesimin sessizlik yemini ettiği boğucu çoraklığa adeta meydan okumadır. Her meydan okuma rasyonel duyarlılıkla başlar ve duygusal motiflerle ilerler. “Bilim doğası gereği anarşisttir” ancak bir o kadar da insanın doğaya kendi aklını giydirmesi sanatıdır. Bilimi salt nedenselliğin kuru betimlemesi olarak bir listeleme ve tanımlama faaliyeti değil, ayrıca açıklama ve anlama sanatı olarak okumak gerekir. İşte bu nedenle hem doğa üzerine düşünmek hem de yönteme her adımında karşı olmak da gerekir. Felsefi refleksiyonu olmayan biliminsanı bilim dogmasında körleşirse gerçekliği göremez hale gelebilir.
Kanımca okuyucusu, Burak Cem Coşkun’un fragmanlarını birkaç farklı yaklaşımla ele alabilecektir. Coşkun’un dinamik akıl yürütme etkinliği metnin her yerinde size eşlik ederken diğer yandan bilimsel yöntemler tarihine de zaman zaman üstü kapalı bazen de doğrudan atıflarla sesleniliyor. Bu cesur yolculukta kuşkusuz yazarın felsefi sağduyusu sizi rahat bırakmayacaktır. Metinde bilim adına öfke, acıma, kıvanç duyabilirsiniz. Bunu okuyucuda sağlamak yazarın açık başarısıdır.
Bilimi “bilimci” değil “bilimsel” tavırla ele alan meta-metin olma özelliğiyle elinizdeki bu manifesto çıkarımları ve önermeleriyle, iki dilde ifade olanağıyla, bilim-denilen ile bilimsel yöntemin dehlizlerinde gerçeklikle savaşıyor. Manifesto’yu metodolojik değil aynı anda “logic”, “logos”un manifestosu olarak da yaz sıcağında keyifle okudum. Hepimizin temennisi Burak Cem Coşkun’un özlü ifadesiyle kozmik örüntünün mitosunu logos ile birleştirebilecek bir tahayyüle sahip olmak değil mi?
Okuyucusuna açacağı ufuklarda aydınlık günler ve düşler yaratması dileğiyle.
Güncel Önkal
Felsefe Profesörü
Datça, 2025.”
― Doğa Üzerine ve Yönteme Karşı - On Nature & Against Method, Reflections & Propositions
Kanımca okuyucusu, Burak Cem Coşkun’un fragmanlarını birkaç farklı yaklaşımla ele alabilecektir. Coşkun’un dinamik akıl yürütme etkinliği metnin her yerinde size eşlik ederken diğer yandan bilimsel yöntemler tarihine de zaman zaman üstü kapalı bazen de doğrudan atıflarla sesleniliyor. Bu cesur yolculukta kuşkusuz yazarın felsefi sağduyusu sizi rahat bırakmayacaktır. Metinde bilim adına öfke, acıma, kıvanç duyabilirsiniz. Bunu okuyucuda sağlamak yazarın açık başarısıdır.
Bilimi “bilimci” değil “bilimsel” tavırla ele alan meta-metin olma özelliğiyle elinizdeki bu manifesto çıkarımları ve önermeleriyle, iki dilde ifade olanağıyla, bilim-denilen ile bilimsel yöntemin dehlizlerinde gerçeklikle savaşıyor. Manifesto’yu metodolojik değil aynı anda “logic”, “logos”un manifestosu olarak da yaz sıcağında keyifle okudum. Hepimizin temennisi Burak Cem Coşkun’un özlü ifadesiyle kozmik örüntünün mitosunu logos ile birleştirebilecek bir tahayyüle sahip olmak değil mi?
Okuyucusuna açacağı ufuklarda aydınlık günler ve düşler yaratması dileğiyle.
Güncel Önkal
Felsefe Profesörü
Datça, 2025.”
― Doğa Üzerine ve Yönteme Karşı - On Nature & Against Method, Reflections & Propositions
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
