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May 5, 2006
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Julia and Charles Pence
About My Library
Our library is completely entered; if we own it, it's on here. Particular strengths throughout the history of philosophy, Russian literature, children's literature, and the philosophy, history, and science of biology and physics.

RATINGS: I've finally decided to start rating my books, mostly as a guide for myself as to what I've read and what I haven't. For all books, 0 stars means unread. Other than that:

Philosophy: Five stars means I consider the book an essential work by an essential philosopher; every philosopher should have read it, and laypeople should probably be familiar with it too. Four stars is an important or significant work, or one that I've used quite a bit and really enjoy. Three stars is something I'd never consider getting rid of. Two stars is decent (probably was required reading at some point), and one star is something I feel obligated to keep but don't like at all. If you're surprised by some work of philosophy's being missing, you've probably stumbled into something that I've got as a PDF, which I'm doing more and more these days.

Fiction: Here it's basically one-to-five based on how much I enjoyed reading a particular work. Three stars is the lowest rating that I'll give a book that I didn't like but is important for some reason that I don't fully understand.
About Me
A family consisting of a lecturer in philosophy at Université catholique de Louvain, and a chemical engineer.

[Note: the photo is actually a chunk of our library, showing off our spine labels.]
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Brussels, Belgium
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http://www.charlespence.net
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Libraries: Bibliothèques de l'Université catholique de Louvain, Princeton University - Firestone Library

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