well, I can't figure this one out!

[leafofgrass]

I'm looking on-line to see if Dale Jacquette's textbook Symbolic Logic has gone into a new edition or not, so I decide to check Amazon. After all, they wouldn't sell dead stock. So I open the page, and I am not signed in, mind you, and down at the bottom it is offering the "buy it toghether" deal--nothing new here, right? Well, only if you

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[filmgirl99]

Knowing nothing about the inner workings of either of these books, I think the recommendation pairings are somewhat arbitrary for Amazon--i.e., if someone likes one philosophy text, he or she would probably enjoy another popular philosophy text as well. All of their other pairings seem to be based on genre alone, whether one is looking at yoga DVDs or political humor books. It also wouldn't surprise me if they grouped books according to publisher, 'cause bookselling is clique-y like that.

Or I could be totally off-base, and Amazon may have dozens of shadowy editors finding subtle links between these works that we haven't even begun to consider. :)

I must have just noticed this...

[ex_alexxxand731]

the SPIRAL JETTY! YAY!

[mooxyjoo]

jacquette wrote a book called 'ontology' in, i think, mcgill's series of books on fundamentalish problems in philosophy; the book purports to contend with both heidegger's notion of fundamental ontology and with quinean ontology, but it basically gives a very very poor reading of heidegger and then goes on to do lots of modal logic and sidle on over to quine.

[leafofgrass]

OOOOOH! That makes so much sense! Especially given the internal political issues going on at Penn State (pluralist program where Jacquette sits alongside--largely playing second fiddle to--a number of very prominent continentals). Thanks!

[mooxyjoo]

i wish i hadn't had to buy the book in order to know that. : /