BOOKS

Below are some of my more philosophical books. See also this cool Essay by a first-year Duke student.

Sartre, J-P. (1955). No exit and three other plays (S. Gilbert, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1947)

Sartre, J-P. (1956). Being and nothingness (H. E. Barnes, Trans.). New York: Simon & Schuster. (Original work published 1943)

Sartre, J-P. (1959). Nausea (L. Alexander, Trans.). New York: New Directions. (Original work published 1938)

Sartre, J-P. (1960). The transcendence of the ego (F. Williams & R. Kirkpatrick, Trans.). New York: Hill and Wang. (Original work published 1936-1937)

Sartre, J-P. (1964). The words (B. Frechtman, Trans.). New York: Braziller.

Sartre, J-P. (1948). Anti-semite and Jew (G. J. Becker, Trans.). New York: Schocken. (Original work published 1946)

de Beauvoir, S. (1948). The ethics of ambiguity (B. Frechtman, Trans.). New York: Citadel Press. (Original work published 1947)

de Beauvoir, S. (1958). Memoirs of a dutiful daughter (J. Kirkup, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row.

Camus, A. (1946). The stranger (S. Gilbert, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1942)

Camus, A. (1948). The plague (S. Gilbert, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1947)

Camus, A. (1956). The fall (J. O'Brien, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1956)

Camus, A. (1955). The myth of Sisyphus and other essays (J. O'Brien, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1942)

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1963). In praise of philosophy and other essays (J. Wild & J. E. O'Neill, Trans.). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. (Original work published 1953)

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1973). The prose of the world (J. O'Neill, Trans.). Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univesity Press. (Original work published 1969)

Tolstoy, L. (1968). War and peace (A. Dunnigan, Trans.). New York: New American Library. (Original work published 1866-1869)

Dostoevsky, F. (1990). The brothers Karamazov (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1879-1880)

Dostoevsky, F. (1993). Notes from underground (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.). New York: Random House. (Original work published 1864)

Dostoevsky, F. (1992). Crime and punishment (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.) New York: Random House. (Original work published 1866)

Berdyaev, N. (1957). Dostoevsky (D. Attwater, Trans.). New York: Meridian. (Original work published 1923)

Berdyaev, N. (1944). Slavery and freedom (R. M. French, Trans.). New York: Scribner. (Original work published 1939)

MacLeish, A. (1956). J.B. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Kafka, F. (1998). The castle (M. Harman, Trans.). New York: Schocken. (Original work published 1926)

de Unamuno, M. (1972). The tragic sense of life in men and nations (A. Kerrigan, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1912)

Pascal, B. (1966). Pensées (A. J. Krailsheimer, Trans.). New York: Penguin. (Original work published 1670)

Buber, M. (1971). I and thou. New York: Free Press. (Original work published 1923)

Buber, M. (1947). Tales of the Hasidim. New York: Schocken. (Original work published 1927)

Buber, M. (1968). On the Bible: Eighteen studies (N. N. Glatzer, Ed.). New York: Schocken.

Buber, M. (1979). Eclipse of God. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. (Original work published 1952)

Kierkegaard, S. (1989). The concept of irony, with continual reference to Socrates (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1841)

Kierkegaard, S. (1990). Eighteen upbuilding discourses (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1841)

Kierkegaard, S. (1991). Practice in Christianity (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1850)

Kierkegaard, S. (1955). On authority and revelation: The book on Adler, or a cycle of ethico-religious essays (W. Lowrie, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1849)

Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The concept of anxiety (R. Thomte & A. B. Anderson, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1844)

Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The sickness unto death (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1849)

Kierkegaard, S. (1983). Fear and trembling / Repetition (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1843)

Kierkegaard, S. (1985). Philosophical fragments (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1844)

Kierkegaard, S. (1992). Concluding unscientific postscript to Philosophical fragments (H. V. Hong & E. H. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1846)


Van Fraassen, B. (1980). The scientific image. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cartwright, N. (1983). How the laws of physics lie. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hacking, I. (1975). Why does language matter to philosophy? New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hacking, I. (2001). An introduction to probability and inductive logic. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hacking, I. (1990). The taming of chance. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hacking, I. (1975). The emergence of probability. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gigerenzer, G., Swijtink, Z., Porter, T., Daston, L., Beatty, J., & Krüger, L. (1989). The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lewis, M. (1997). Altering fate: Why the past does not predict the future. New York: Guilford.

Devitt, M. (1991). Realism and truth (2nd ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Kourany, J. A. (Ed., 1987). Scientific knowledge: Basic issues in the philosophy of science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Kitcher, P., & Salmon, W. C. (Eds., 1989). Scientific explanation. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Hempel, C. G. (2000). Selected philosophical essays (R. Jeffrey, Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Popper, K. R. (1968). The logic of scientific discovery. New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1935)

Popper, K. R. (1966). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 1. The spell of Plato. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1945)

Popper, K. R. (1966). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 2. The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1945)

Popper, K. R. (1989). Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge. New York: Routledge. (Original work published 1963)

Lakatos, I., & Musgrave, A. (Eds., 1970). Criticism and the growth of knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Musgrave, A. (1993). Common sense, science and scepticism: A historical introduction to the theory of knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, D. (1994). Critical rationalism: A restatement and defense. Chicago: Open Court.

Feyerabend, P. (1988). Against method (Rev. ed.). New York: Verso. (Original work published 1974)

Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1962)

Kuhn, T. S. (1985). The Copernican revolution: Planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1957)

Lloyd, G. E. R. (1970). Early Greek science: Thales to Aristotle. New York: Norton.

Grant, E. (1977). Physical science in the middle ages. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1971)

Debus, A. G. (1978). Man and nature in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Westfall, R. S. (1977). The construction of modern science: Mechanisms and mechanics. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1971)

Butterfield, H. (1957). The origins of modern science (Rev. ed.). New York: Macmillan. (Original work published 1949)

Matthews, M. R. (Ed., 1989). The scientific background to modern philosophy: Selected readings. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.

Einstein, A., & Infeld, L. (1938). The evolution of physics: From early conceptions to relativity and quanta. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Lightman, A., & Brawer, R. (1990). Origins: The lives and worlds of modern cosmologists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Watson, P. (2005). Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud. New York: HarperCollins.

Merchant, C. (1983). The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution. New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1980)

Garry, A., & Pearsall, M. (Eds., 1989). Women, knowledge, and reality: Explorations in feminist philosophy. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Ihde, D., & Selinger, E. (Eds., 2003). Chasing technoscience: Matrix for materiality. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press.

Collins, R. (1998). The sociology of philosophies: A global theory of intellectual change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Grünbaum, A. (1984). The foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical critique. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man (Rev. ed.). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1981)

Lewontin, R. C. (1991). Biology as ideology: The doctrine of DNA. New York: HarperCollins.

Dawkins, R. (1989). The selfish gene (Rev. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1976)

Wright, R. (1994). The moral animal: Evolutionary psychology and everyday life. New York: Random House.

Buss, D. M. (1994). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. New York: Basic.

Maynard Smith, J. (1975). The theory of evolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1958)

Hull, D. L. (2000). Science and selection: Essays on biological evolution and the philosophy of science. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sober, E. (Ed., 1994). Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Descartes, R. (1986). Meditations on first philosophy, with selections from the objections and replies (J. Cottingham, Trans.). New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1641)

Locke, J. (1975). An essay concerning human understanding. New York: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1690)

Berkeley, G. (1979). Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1713)

Hume, D. (1977). An enquiry concerning human understanding. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1748)

Kant, I. (1977). Prolegomena to any future metaphysics (P. Carus & J. W. Ellington, Trans.). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1783)

Hussurl, E. (1960). Cartesian meditations: An introduction to phenomenology (D. Cairns, Trans.). Boston: Martinus Nijhoff. (Original work published 1931)

Russell, B. (1993). Introduction to mathematical philosophy. New York: Dover. (Original work published 1919)

Wittgenstein, L. (1969). On certainty (D. Paul & G. E. M. Anscombe, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row.

Quine, W. V. (1986). Philosophy of logic (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1970)

Jeffrey, R. C. (1991). Formal logic: Its scope and limits (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (Original work published 1967)

Williamson, T. (1994). Vagueness. New York: Routledge.

Morton, A. (1997). A guide through the theory of knowledge (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Original work published 1977)

Putnam, H. (1975). Mind, language and reality: Philosophical papers, Vol. 2. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Cummins, R. (1989). Meaning and mental representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Fodor, J. A. (1975). The language of thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Fodor, J. A. (1981). Representations: Philosophical essays on the foundations of cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dennett, D. C. (1984). Elbow room: The varieties of free will worth wanting. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dennett, D. C. (1981). Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Original work published 1978)

Dennett, D. C. (1987). The intentional stance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Searle, J. R. (1983). Intentionality: An essay in the philosophy of mind. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Searle, J. R. (1992). The rediscovery of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Searle, J. R. (2002). Consciousness and language. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Flanagan, O., & Rorty, A. O. (Eds., 1997). Identity, character, and morality: Essays in moral psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

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