List of important publications in philosophy

List of important publications in philosophy

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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 Influence A publication which has significantly influenced the world or has had a massive impact on the teaching of philosophy.

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 De Interpretatione Prior Analytics

List of important publications in philosophy 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, c. AD 397 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Early 5th century Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, c. 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, c. 1260 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

List of important publications in philosophy Modern philosophy Niccol Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532 Sir Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Ren Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind Ren Descartes, Discourse on Method Ren Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Ren Descartes, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters Blaise Pascal, Penses 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_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments 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 Sren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843 Sren 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

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Eastern philosophy
Sun Tzu, The Art of War, approx 600 BC 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: Patajali, Yoga Sutras Swami Swatamarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika Vedanta school: Vyasa, Brahma Sutras

List of important publications in philosophy Chinese Legalism Han Feizi, Han Feizi Taoism Lao Zi, Tao Te Ching, approximately 600 BC ?? Chuang Tzu, Zhuangzi Liezi, Liezi Mohism Mozi, Mozi

20th-century philosophy
Epistemology
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912) G.E. Moore, A Defence of Common Sense (1925) Edmund Gettier, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (1963) Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979)

Metaphysics
John Dewey, Experience and Nature, 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 Rudolf Carnap, Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology D.M. Armstrong, Universals and Scientific Realism 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

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Philosophy of biology
Elliott Sober, The Nature of Selection Erwin Schrdinger, 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 Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds, 1967

Philosophy of science
Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 1892 Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, 1954 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

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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 Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art

Ethics G. E. M. Anscombe, Modern Moral Philosophy Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia John McDowell, Values as Secondary Qualities Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit, On What Matters

Freedom and Responsibility P. F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment Derk Pereboom, Living without Free Will 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 John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" Philosophy of economics Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values

List of important publications in philosophy 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 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971 Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Lenin, V.I. State and Revolution

Logic, language, and mathematics

Logic and philosophy of logic Charles Sanders Peirce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" Gottlob Frege, Begriffsschrift Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, 1910-1913 Kurt Gdel, "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 Gottlob Frege, "Sense and Reference" 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" Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language

List of important publications in philosophy Philosophy of mathematics Balaguer, M., Platonism and Anti-platonism in mathematics Benacerraf, B., What numbers could not be Benacerraf, B., Mathematical truth Benacerraf, B. and Putnam, H., Philosophy of mathematics: selected reading Boolos, G., Logic, logic and logic

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21st-century philosophy
Transcultural philosophy and postcolonialism
Transcultural or intercultural philosophy had its precursors in diverse thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Antonio Gramsci. In recent times, Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas explored the concepts of the other, alterity, and difference. Edward Said, Orientalism Derek Parfit, On What Matters, described by Peter Singer as "the most significant work in ethics since Sidgwick's masterpiece was published in 1873".

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 [1] Epistemology Research Guide [2] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Annotated Bibliography on Analysis [3] Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography [4] London Philosophy Study Guide [5]

External links
Revista Observaciones Filosoficas [6]

References
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