Boston College's MA Philosophy Reading List
Plato: Republic, Meno, Sophist
Aristotle: Niomachean Ethics. Metaphysics, I, VII. Physics II, III ch. I-3 Poetics
Parmenides
Heracleitus
Plotinus: Enneads I, 6 (On Beauty) and 1117 (On Time)
REQUIRED READINGS FOR MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Augustine: Confessions I-XI; De Magistro
Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Part I, qq. 2-3 (the existence and simplicity of God); qq. 76, 79, 85 (union of body and soul; the intellectual powers; the mode and order of understanding); Part I-II, qq. 90-92, 94-95 (treatise on law)
Anselm: Proslogion
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed (Hackett edition)
Averroes: On Plato's Republic
Scotus: On the Will and Morality (selections)
Ockham: On Aristotle's Physics
REQUIRED READINGS FOR MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Descartes: Meditations
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Prefaces, Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic, Transcendental Logic, Transcendental Analytic, Books l-II; Groundworkfor the Metaphysics of Morals
Hume: Treatise of Human Nature, Blc I. Parts I and III
Hobbes: Leviathan, Intro. Part I. Ch. I,II, X, Xl, XIII, XIV. Part II, Ch. XVII-XIX
Locke: Second Treatise on Government (selections)
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit. Introduction, A. Consciousness, B. Self-Consciousness: The Philosophy of Right, Introduction. Part III
LATE 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
James: Pragmatism. Will to Believe, Ch. I, II, III; Princ. of Psych. Ch. rx, x, xv
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
Marx: Pans Manuscripts, German Ideology I, Capital I Book I, Parts I-III
Mill: On Liberty; Utilitarianism
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Use and Abuse of History
Pierce, selections based on Weiner and Buchler
EARLY 2OTH CENTURY
Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic ofthe Enlightenment
Arendt: The Human Condition
Austin: How To Do Things with Words; Sense and Sensibilia
Blondel: Action
Dewey: Experience and Nature, Art and Experience
Frege: The Foundations of Arithmetic; "Function and Concept; "On Sense and Meaning"; "Concept and Object" in Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy
Gilson: Being and Some Philosophers, The Unity of Philosophical Experience
Heidegger: Being and Time (selections), Letter on Humanism
Husserl: Cartesian Meditations, Logical Investigations, 1, 11, Vl
Lonergan: Insight
Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception
Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Ch. I-VIII, X; The Logic of Scientifc, Discovery, and "Science: Conjectures and Refutations"; The Open Society
Rahner: Spirit in the World
Russell: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, The Problems of Philosophy
Ryle: Concept of Mind, Dilemmas
Sartre: Being and Nothingness, Existentialism is a Humanism
Whitehead: Process and Reality, selections
Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Davidson: Truth and Interpretation
Derrida: Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference
Foucault: Discipline and Punish or History of Sexuality I&II
Gadamer: Truth and Method
Habermas: Discourse Ethic, Theory of Communicative Actions I
Hacking: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
Kuhn: The Structure of Scientifc Revolutions and Lakatos and Musgrave, Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
MacIntyre: After Virtue, Three Rival Verions of Moral Enquiry
Quine: Word and Object, From a Logical Point of View
Ricoeur: Time and Narrative 1, Oneselfas Another
Taylor: Sources of the Self
