Ancient Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy

Modern Philosophy

Late 19th Century Philosophy 

  • James: Pragmatism. The 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 20th 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, Oneself as Another
  • Taylor: Sources of the Self