Recommended Reading (A - Z): Philosophy

 

Aurelius, M. Meditations.


Blackmore, S. Conversations on Consciousness. 2006.


Block, N., O. Flanagan, and G. Güzeldere. The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. 1998.


Bok, S.. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. 1999.


Canetti, E. Crowds and Power. 1966.


Casebeer, W.D.. Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition. 2005.


Chalmers, D.J. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. 1997.


Dacey, A.. Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life. 2008.


Davidson, D. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. 2001.


Dennett, D. Breaking the Spell. 2006.


Dennett, D.C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. 1996.


Dennett, D.C. Consciousness Explained. 1992.


Edwards, P., Ed. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1967.


Einstein, A. Ideas and Opinions. 1954.


Einstein, A. Out of My Later Years. 1956.


Fingarette, H. Self-Deception. 2000.


Flanagan, O. The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them. 2002.


Glover, J. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. 2001.


Gregory, R. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. 2004.


Gross, PR and N Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. 1997.


Heisenberg, W. Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations. 1971.


Hofstadter, D.R. and D.C. Dennett. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections On Self and Soul. 1985.


Honderich, T (Ed). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 2005.


Hume, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.


James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.


James, W. The Will To Believe. 1956.


James, W. Essays In Radical Empiricism. 1912.


Kuhn, TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.


La Rochefoucauld. Maxims.


Leslie, J. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. 1998.


Levy, N.. Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2007.


Mates, B. Ed. and Trans. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. 1996.


McGinn, C. The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. 2000.


McIntyre, L. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human. September 1, 2006.


McKenna, T. The Archaic Revival. 1992.


McKenna, T. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. 1993.


McKenna, T. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in Devil’s Paradise. 1993.


Medawar, P. The Threat and the Glory (Reflections on Science and Scientists). 1990.


Mele, A.R. Self-Deception Unmasked. 2001.


Metzinger, T. Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. 2003.


Metzinger, T (Ed). Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions. 2000.


Monk, R. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. 1990.


Monk, R. Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. 1996.


Montaigne. The Complete Works of Montaigne. 1943.


Nagel, T. Mortal Questions. 1991.


Nagel, T. The View From Nowhere. 1989.


Nagel, T. Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994. 1995.


Nagel, T. The Last Word. 2001.


Nietzsche, F. The Portable Nietzsche. 1977.


Nozick, R. Philosophical Explanations. 1981.


Planck, M. Where Is Science Going?. 1981.


Popper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery.


Poundstone, W. Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. 1989.


Poundstone, W. Prisoner’s Dilemma. 1993.


Quine, W.V. From A Logical Point of View. 1953.


Rorty, R. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers. 1991.


Rorty, R. The Consequences of Pragmatism. 1982.


Rosenthal, D. The Nature of Mind. 1991.


Russell, B. Why I am Not a Christian.. October 30, 1967.


Russell, B. History of Western Philosophy. 1945.


Russell, B. The Problems of Philosophy. 1912.


Russell, B. Religion and Science. 1935.


Santayana, G. Persons and Places: The Background of My Life. 1963.


Santayana, G. Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy. 1923.


Schrödinger, E. What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”. 1967.


Schrodinger, E. My View of the World. 1961.


Searle, J. Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power. 2006.


Searle, J.R. The Mystery of Consciousness. 1997.


Searle, J.R. The Construction of Social Reality. 1995.


Searle, J.R. The Rediscovery of the Mind. 1992.


Singer, P. Writings on an Ethical Life. 2000.


Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. 1989.


Stroud, B. The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism. 1984.


Twain, M. What is Man? And Other Essays. 1906.


Unger, P. Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence. 1996.


Voltaire. Philosophical Dictionary. 1972 (1764).


Voltaire, F. Philosophical Dictionary.


Watson, G. Free Will. 1982.


Wittgenstein, L. On Certainty. 1969.


Wittgenstein, L. Philosophical Investigations. 1953.


Wittgenstein, L. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. 1922.