Philosophy Books

Updated October 8, 2025
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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R.
Paper Book
Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical...
A philosophy of walking
Gros, Frédéric.
Paper Book
"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." --Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B - the pilgrimage, the promenade,...

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