READING LIST FOR STUDENTS
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Plato, Republic, Phaedo
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, De Anima, Metaphysics
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Augustine, City of God, Confessions
Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Anselm, Proslogion
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse
on Method
J. Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
ETHICS AND SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
J. Locke, Civil Government
Hume, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Rousseau, Social Contract
Hobbes, Leviathan
Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Marx, German Ideology
Mill, Ultilitarianism, On Liberty
Rawls, A Theory of Justice
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
James, "What Pragmatism Means," "Pragmatism's
Conception of
Truth," "The Will to Believe"
Pierce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," "The
Fixation of Belief"
Dewey, Experience and Nature, Art as Experience
Douglass, Narrative
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
A. Locke, "The New Negro," "Values and
Imperatives"
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND MIND
Frege, "On Sense and Reference"
Brentano, "Psychology From the Empirical Standpoint"
Russell, "On Denoting"
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical
Investigations
Quine, "On What There Is," "Two Dogmas
of Empiricism"
Ryle, The Concept of Mind, chapters 1,2
Wilfred Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of
Mind"
Putnam, "Minds and Machines"
Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"
Fodor, The Language of Thought, part II
Chomsky, "Review of Verbal Behavior"
Kripke, Naming and Necessity
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND EPISTEMOLOGY
Goodman, Fact, Fiction, Forecast
Quine, "Epistemology Naturalized"
Gettier, "Is True Justified Belief Knowledge?"
Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge, chapters 1,2
Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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