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Comments On Some Good Science Books

Here are a few comments on the books I recommend for Philosophy and the Particular Sciences.

Précis de philosophie

The best (or "least bad"!) Philosophy textbook I've found so far.

Précis d'histoire de philosophie

What did such and such a philosopher say, when did he say it, and (as far as possible) why?

The Intellectual Life

Why (a lot) and how (a little bit) to become a good thinker. Very inspiring.
PDF and DJVU formats on the Internet Archive (no squeeky-clean HTML version yet).

Manuel de bioéthique

Pros: very morally correct (i.e. it calls evil "evil", and good "good", which is rare these days, and which is the most important aspect of a book on medical ethics!), very up-to-date, very "researched".

Cons: sometimes tries too hard to be understood by a pagan and scientific audience, which means he uses complicated (but fashionable) expressions, instead of calling a spade a spade. Also, this book assumes you're familiar with a good Philosophy textbook,  like the three books by Thonnard.

Scientific Method in Practice

I  would like to recommend THE textbook on Science and the Scientific method, but I  don't know of any yet (See "Isn't believing in Science anti-scientific?"). Mr. Gauch's book is much better than nothing. But some of  its errors must be corrected with F.-J. Thonnard, or another good Philosophy textbook.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

I've never read it, but God willing I will someday. Too many people have recommended it to me.

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics and Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

I've never read them. Recommended by Mr. Nirmal Savio Paul.

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