Great Readings
A curated collection of field-defining monographs, seminal essays, and landmark philosophical breakthroughs. These works demonstrate how major thinkers formulate transformative paradigms, challenge conventional dogmas, and construct rigorous arguments.
- Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind
- Ethics, Value Theory, and Moral Psychology
- Political, Social, and Legal Philosophy
- Language, Logic, and Philosophy of Science
- Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory
Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Six Metaphysical Meditations | René Descartes |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | David Hume |
| The Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant |
| Ethics | Benedict de Spinoza |
| Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? | Edmund Gettier |
| The Concept of Mind | Gilbert Ryle |
| What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | Thomas Nagel |
| The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory | David J. Chalmers |
| Mind and World | John McDowell |
Ethics, Value Theory, and Moral Psychology
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle | Aristotle |
| Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals | Immanuel Kant |
| Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | Peter Singer |
| Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory | Judith Jarvis Thomson |
| Reasons and Persons | Derek Parfit |
| What We Owe to Each Other | T. M. Scanlon |
Political, Social, and Legal Philosophy
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Republic | Plato |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Second Treatise of Government | John Locke |
| On Liberty | John Stuart Mill |
| A Theory of Justice | John Rawls |
| Anarchy, State, and Utopia | Robert Nozick |
| The Racial Contract | Charles W. Mills |
Language, Logic, and Philosophy of Science
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Two Dogmas of Empiricism | W. V. O. Quine |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence | Alan M. Turing |
| Naming and Necessity | Saul A. Kripke |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas S. Kuhn |
| The Scientific Image | Bas C. van Fraassen |
Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Being and Time | Martin Heidegger |
| Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
| The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Dialectic of Enlightenment | Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno |
| Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault |
| Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing | Miranda Fricker |