List of publications in philosophy

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Historical texts[]

Western philosophy[]

Ancient philosophy[]

Gorgias, On What is Not
Plato, Charmides
Plato, Lysis
Plato, Laches
Plato, Protagoras
Plato, Euthydemus
Plato, Cratylus
Plato, Phaedrus
Plato, Ion
Plato, Symposium
Plato, Meno
Plato, Euthyphro
Plato, Apology
Plato, Crito
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Gorgias
Plato, The Republic
Plato, Timaeus
Plato, Critias
Plato, Parmenides
Plato, Theaetetus
Plato, Sophist
Plato, Statesman
Plato, Philebus
Plato, Laws
Aristotle, Organon:
- Categories
- De Interpretatione
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- On Sophistical Refutations
Aristotle, Physics
Aristotle, On the Heavens
Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle, Meteorology
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Aristotle, On the Soul
Aristotle, Parva Naturalia:
- Sense and Sensibilia
- On Memory
- On Sleep
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
Aristotle, On Breath
Aristotle, History of Animals
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
Aristotle, Movement of Animals
Aristotle, Progression of Animals
Aristotle, Generation of Animals
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Aristotle, Poetics
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Epictetus, Discourses, AD 101
Epictetus, Enchiridion, AD 135
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Plotinus, Enneads

Medieval philosophy[]

Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, circa AD 397
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Early 5th century
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, circa 500
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
Maimonides, Mishneh Torah
Yehuda Halevi, Kuzari
Saadia Gaon, Emunot ve-Deot
Al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles, circa 1260
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

Modern philosophy[]

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532
Sir Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
René Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
René Descartes, Discourse on Method
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics
Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology
Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689
George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, 1788
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, 1785
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843
Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, 1843
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Das Kapital
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Charles Sanders Peirce, Logic of Relatives, 1870

Eastern philosophy[]

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, approx 1600 AD

Buddhist philosophy[]

Abhidhamma
Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way)

Confucianism[]

Five Classics, edited or compiled by Confucius

The I Ching
The Shi Jing or The Book of Odes
The Classic of Rites
The Classic of History
The Spring and Autumn Annals

Four Books, selected by Zhu Xi (1130 – 1200)

Confucius and Zeng Zi, The Great Learning
Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
Zisi, The Doctrine of the Mean
Mencius, The Mencius

Xun Zi, Xunzi

Hindu philosophy[]

The Upanishads
The Bhagavad Gita ("The Song of God")
Samkhya school:
- Isvarakrsna, Sankhya Karika
Nyaya school:
- Aksapada Gautama, Nyaya Sutras
Vaisheshika school:
- Kanada, Vaishashik Darshana
Yoga school:
- Patañjali, Yoga Sutras
- Swami Swatamarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Vedanta school:
- Vyasa, Brahma Sutras

Chinese Legalism[]

Han Feizi, Han Feizi

Taoism[]

Lao Zi, Tao Te Ching, approximately 600 BC ??
Chuang Tzu, Zhuangzi
Liezi, Liezi

Mohism[]

Mozi, Mozi

Twentieth-century philosophy[]

Epistemology[]

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
G.E. Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense"
Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", 1963
Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Metaphysics[]

John Dewey, Experience and Nature, c. 1929
William James, Pragmatism
G. E. Moore, "The Refutation of Idealism", 1903
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (a.k.a. The Tractatus)
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
W.V.O. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
W.V.O. Quine, "On What There Is"
W.V.O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View, 1980
Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity.
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

Philosophy of biology[]

Elliot Sober, The Nature of Selection
Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, 1945

Philosophy of chemistry[]

J. van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry, Leuven University Press, 2000.

Philosophy of mind[]

David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
Edmund Husserl, Ideas, 1913
Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, 1900-1901
Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to be a Bat?"
Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning"
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 1949
Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", 1956

Philosophy of physics[]

Hans Reichenbach, The Philosophy of Space and Time
John Stuart Bell, "On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox", 1964

Philosophy of psychology[]

William James, Principles of Psychology
Donald Davidson, "The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme"

Philosophy of religion[]

J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism, 1982

Philosophy of science[]

Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 1892
Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1959
Thomas Samuel Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962
Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, 1975
Bas C. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, 1980
Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Ethics, value, and social philosophy[]

Aesthetics[]

Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art
R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art
Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, 1968
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

Ethics[]

G. E. M. Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
John McDowell, "Values as Secondary Qualities"
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
P. F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment"

Bioethics[]

Paul Ramsey, The Patient as a Person
Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man
Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"

Business ethics[]

Feminism[]

Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Existentialism[]

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism"

Philosophy of economics[]

Philosophy of education[]

B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Philosophy of history[]

R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History

Philosophy of law[]

John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 1994.
Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law
Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire

Political philosophy[]

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Lenin, V.I. State and Revolution
Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty

Logic, language, and mathematics[]

Logic and philosophy of logic[]

Charles Peirce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
Gottlob Frege, Begriffsschrift
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, 1910-1913
Kurt Gödel, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems", 1931
Saul Kripke, "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic"
Alfred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth "
Hans Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method
Donald Davidson, "Truth and Meaning"

Philosophy of language[]

Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses"
Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
H. P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"
Gottlob Frege, "Sense and Reference"

Philosophy of mathematics[]

See also List of publications in mathematics