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In diesem Sinne zwei subjektive Listen zur Theoretischen Philosophie und den Kognitionswissenschaften.

Top 20 Theoretische Philosophie

Top 20 Kognitionswissenschaften


1. George Boolos & John Burgess & Richard Jeffrey, Computability and Logic

2. Rudolf Carnap, Bedeutung und Notwendigkeit (Ausg. mit Anhängen)

3. Rudolf Carnap, Logische Syntax der Sprache

4. Willard Van Orman Quine, Set Theory and Its Logic

5. Donald Davidson, Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

6. Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft

7. Graham Priest, In Contradiction (2. Aufl.)

8. Gottlob Frege, Schriften zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie.

9. John Pollock, Cognitive Carpentry.

10. Michael Potter, Set Theory and Its Philosophy

11. Lou Goble (Hg.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic

12. Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective

13. Roderick Chisholm, The First Person.

14. Keith Lehrer, Theory of Knowledge

15. David Lewis, Convention

16. Edmund Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen

17. Robert Nozick, The Nature of Rationality

18. Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Big Typescript (Wiener Ausgabe)

19. D. M. Armstrong, A World of States of Affairs

20. Jay F. Rosenberg, One World and Our Knowledge of It.


1. Zenon Pylyshyn, Computation and Cognition.

2. Noam Chomsky, New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind

3. Charles Petzold, Code.

4. Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty.

5. Stephen Budiansky, If a Lion Could Talk.

6. Bernard J. Baars, In the Theater of Consciousness.

7. Jerry A. Fodor, Concepts.

8. Brian Cantwell Smith, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence.

9. Michael Tomasello, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition.

10. Michael Wheeler, Reconstructing the Cognitive World.

11. Robert Kowalski, Computational Logic and Human Thinking.

12. Robert Berwick & Noam Chomsky, Why Only Us.

13. Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

14. Michael S. Gazzaniga et al., Cognitive Neuroscience.

15. Max Bennet, A Brief History of Intelligence.

16. Peter Carruthers, The Architecture of the Mind

17. Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition

18. Iris van Rooij et al., Cognition and Intractability.

19. Henry Plotkin, Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge.

20. C.R. Gallistel & Adam Philip King, Memory and the Computational Brain.