List of publications in philosophy

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field.

Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:

• Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
• Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
• Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
• Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
• Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic

In addition to the topic divisions below, Twentieth century philosophers are often divided according to general methodology. This is noted next to the title as follows: [ C ] notes that a publication is read primarily by Continental Philosophers [ A ] notes that a publication is read primarily by Analytic Philosophers

Contents 1 Historical texts 1.1 Western philosophy 1.1.1 Ancient philosophy 1.1.2 Medieval philosophy 1.1.3 Modern philosophy 1.2 Eastern philosophy 1.2.1 Buddhist philosophy 1.2.2 Confucianism 1.2.3 Hindu philosophy 1.2.4 Chinese Legalism 1.2.5 Taoism 1.2.6 Mohism 2 Twentieth-century philosophy 2.1 Epistemology 2.2 Metaphysics 2.3 Philosophy of biology 2.4 Philosophy of mind 2.5 Philosophy of physics 2.6 Philosophy of psychology 2.7 Philosophy of religion 2.8 Philosophy of science 2.9 Ethics, value, and social philosophy 2.9.1 Aesthetics 2.9.2 Ethics 2.9.2.1 Bioethics 2.9.2.2 Business ethics 2.9.2.3 Feminism 2.9.3 Existentialism 2.9.4 Philosophy of economics 2.9.5 Philosophy of education 2.9.6 Philosophy of history 2.9.7 Philosophy of law 2.9.8 Political philosophy 2.9.9 Social philosophy 2.10 Logic, language, and mathematics 2.10.1 Logic and philosophy of logic 2.10.2 Philosophy of language 2.10.3 Philosophy of mathematics 3 Further reading

Historical texts

Western philosophy

Ancient philosophy

• 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
  • On Interpretation
  • 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, Little Physical Treatises:
  • On Sense and the Sensible
  • On Memory and Reminiscence
  • On Sleep and Sleeplessness
  • On Dreams
  • On Prophesying by Dreams
  • On Longevity and Shortness of Life
  • On Youth and Old Age
  • On Breathing
• Aristotle, History of Animals
• Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals
• Aristotle, On the Gait of Animals
• Aristotle, On the Progression of Animals
• Aristotle, On the Generation of Animals
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
• Aristotle, Politics
• Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians
• Aristotle, Rhetoric
• Aristotle, Poetics
• Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
• Epictetus, The 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, Emile
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• 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

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, Zuangzi
• Lie Zi, Lie Zi

Mohism

• Mozi, Mozi

Twentieth-century philosophy

Epistemology

• Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy [ A ]
• G.E. Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense" [ A ]
• Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", 1963 [ A ]

Metaphysics

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

Philosophy of biology

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

Philosophy of mind

• Edmund Husserl, Ideas, 1913 [ C ]
• Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, 1900-1901 [ C ]
• Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 1949 [ A ]
• Wilfred Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", 1956 [ A ]
• Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning" [ A ]

Philosophy of physics

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

Philosophy of psychology

• William James, Principles of Psychology [ A ]
• Donald Davidson, "The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" [ A ]

Philosophy of religion

• J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism, 1982 [ A ]

Philosophy of science

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

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

Ethics

• G. E. M. Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"
• Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
• John McDowell, "Values as Secondary Qualities"
• Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
• G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
• Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Genealogy of Morals
• 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 [ C ]
• Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism" [ C ]

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 [ A ]
• H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 1994. [ A ]
• Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law [ A ]
• Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire [ A ]

Political philosophy

• Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies [ A ]
• John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971 [ A ]
• Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia [ A ]

Social philosophy

• Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Civil Society, (see Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
• Margaret Gilbert, On Social Facts.

Logic, language, and mathematics

Logic and philosophy of logic

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

Philosophy of language

• Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting" [ A ]
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations [ C ] [ A ]
• J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses"
• Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity [ A ]
• H. P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"

Philosophy of mathematics

See also List of publications in mathematics

Further reading

• What Are the Modern Classics? The Baruch Poll of Great Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Douglas P. Lackey, Philosophical Forum 30(4): 329-346 (1999).
• American Philosophical Association
• Epistemology Research Guide
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Annotated Bibliography on Analysis
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
• London Philosophy Study Guide