Philosophy Reading List
Some suggestions for those intending to read philosophy and/or beginning a philosophy
course.
Introductions to Philosophy
Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Simon Blackburn, Think (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley, The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in
133 Arguments (Liveright, 2016)
Edward Craig, Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Mary Midgley, What is Philosophy for? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Thomas Nagel, What Does it All Mean? (Oxford University Press, 1987).
Gideon Rosen et al., The Norton Introduction to Philosophy. Second edition (W. W. Norton
& Co., 2018)
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy. Second edition (Oxford University Press,
2001).
Jennifer Mather Saul, Feminism: Issues & Arguments (Oxford University Press, 2003)
The Philosophy Bites series of podcasts: http://www.philosophybites.com
and books:
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites (Oxford University Press, 2010)
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites Back (Oxford University Press,
2014)
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites Again (Oxford University Press,
2016)
The History of Philosophy: without any gaps series of podcasts by Peter Adamson:
https://historyofphilosophy.net/
Some contemporary books on specific areas:
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology
Helen Beebee, Free Will: an introduction (Palgrave Macmillian, 2013)
Earl Conee and Theodore Sider, Riddles of Existence. New edition (Clarendon Press,
2014)
Tim Crane, The Mechanical Mind. Third edition (Routledge, 2015)
Amy Kind, Persons and Personal Identity (Polity Press, 2015)
Jennifer Nagel, Knowledge: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014)
