List of publications in philosophy

Many of these texts address topics of interest to psychologists. The list therefore requires pruning

Ancient philosophy

 * Gorgias, On What is Not
 * 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
 * De Interpretatione
 * 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, Parva Naturalia:
 * Sense and Sensibilia
 * On Memory
 * On Sleep
 * On Dreams
 * On Divination in Sleep
 * On Length and Shortness of Life
 * On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
 * Aristotle, On Breath
 * Aristotle, History of Animals
 * Aristotle, Parts of Animals
 * Aristotle, Movement of Animals
 * Aristotle, Progression of Animals
 * Aristotle, Generation of Animals
 * Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
 * Aristotle, Politics
 * Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians
 * Aristotle, Rhetoric
 * Aristotle, Poetics
 * Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
 * Epictetus, 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, ''The Social Contract
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
 * Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
 * 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
 * Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way)

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, Zhuangzi
 * Liezi, Liezi

Mohism

 * Mozi, Mozi

Epistemology

 * Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
 * G.E. Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense"
 * Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", 1963
 * Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Metaphysics

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

Philosophy of biology

 * Elliot Sober, The Nature of Selection
 * Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, 1945

Philosophy of chemistry

 * J. van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry, Leuven University Press, 2000.

Philosophy of mind

 * David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
 * Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
 * Edmund Husserl, Ideas, 1913
 * Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, 1900-1901
 * Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to be a Bat?"
 * Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning"
 * Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 1949
 * Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", 1956

Philosophy of physics

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

Philosophy of psychology

 * William James, Principles of Psychology
 * Donald Davidson, "The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme"

Philosophy of religion

 * J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism, 1982

Philosophy of science

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

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
 * Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

Ethics

 * G. E. M. Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"
 * Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
 * John McDowell, "Values as Secondary Qualities"
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
 * G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
 * Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
 * 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"

Feminism

 * Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Existentialism

 * Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
 * Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism"

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

Political philosophy

 * Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
 * Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
 * John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971
 * Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
 * Lenin, V.I. State and Revolution
 * Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty

Logic and philosophy of logic

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

Philosophy of language

 * Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
 * J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses"
 * Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
 * H. P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"
 * Gottlob Frege, "Sense and Reference"

Philosophy of mathematics

 * See also List of publications in mathematics