ON PHILOSOPHY
Below you will find a list of philosophical authors, books and essay pertaining to the
analytical tradition. . The
continentals has been ignored. Of course, you may add them. I lean more towards the analytics, that is my comfort zone anyways. Below is the list:
2. CLASSICS in the field of analytical philosophy
1) Alexander S. Space, Time and Deity
2) Analytic Philosophy 2 series, Oxford 1962-65.
3) Anscombe,v2 Collected Papers, 2 vols.
4) Armstrong A Materialist Theory of Mind
5) Armstrong Universals and Scientific Realism, 2
6) Austin Sense and Sensibilia
7) Austin Philosophical Papers
8) Ayer Logical Positivism
9) Ayer The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
10) Ayer Language, Truth and Logic
11) Benacerraf & Putnam Philosophy of Mathematics
12) Blackburn Spreading the Word
13) Broad C.D. Mind and its Place in Nature
14) Carnap The Logical Structure of the World
15) Carnap The Logical Syntax of Language
16) Chisholm Theory of Knowledge
17) Davidson Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
18) Davidson Essays on Actions and Events
19) Dennett Brainstorms
20) Dummett Frege: Philosophy of Language
21) Dummett Truth and Other Enigmas
22) Evans The Varieties of Reference
23) Evans & McDowell Truth & Meaning: Essays in Semantics
24) Flew (ed.) Logic and Language, 2 series, 1951-53.
25) Fodor Representations
26) Fodor The Language of Thought
27) Bas van Fraassen The Scientific Image
28) Feigl & Sellars Readings in Philosophical Analysis
29) Frege Collected Papers
30) Frege Posthumous Writings
31) Frege The Foundations of Arithmetic
32) Frege Basic Laws of Arithmetic
33) Geach Logic Matters
34) Geach Reference and Generality
35) Gettier "Is Knowledge Justified True Belief?"
36) Goedel,v2,v3 Collected Works, 3 vols
37) Goodman Problems and Projects
38) Goodman Fact, Fiction and Forecast
39) Grice Studies in the Ways of Words
40) Hampshire S. Thought and Action
41) Hare Freedom and Reason
42) Hare The Language of Morals
43) Van Heijenoort From Frege to Goedel
44) Hempel The Logic of Scientific Investigation
45) Hempel Aspects of Scientific Explanation
46) Kripke Naming and Necessity
47) Kripke Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
48) Lewis Counterfactuals
49) Lewis Convention: A Philosophical Study
50) Lewis On the Plurality of Worlds
51) Lewis C.I. Mind and the World Order
52) MacIntyre After Virtue
53) Mackie The Miracle of Theism
54) Mackie Ethics: Reinventing Right and Wrong
55) Malcolm Knowledge and Certainty
56) Montague Formal Philosophy
57) Moore Principia Ethica
58) Moore Selected Writings
59) Nagel E. The Structure of Science
60) Nagel T. The View from Nowhere
61) Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia
62) Parfit Reasons and Persons
63) Plantinga Nature of Necessity
64) Prior Papers in Logic and Ethics
65) Prior Papers on Time and Tense
66) Putnam,v2,v3 Philosophical papers (3 volumes)
67) Quine Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
68) Quine Ways of Paradox
69) Quine Word and Object
70) Quine From a Logical Point of View
71) Ramsey The Foundations of Mathematics & Other Essays
72) Rawls A Theory of Justice
73) Reichenbach The Philosophy of Space and Time
74) Rorty The Linguistic Turn
75) Russell An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
76) Russell Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
77) Russell Logic and Knowledge
78) Russell Essays in Analysis
79) Russell Principles of Mathematics
80) Russell The Problems of Philosophy
81) Russell Philosophical Essays
82) Ryle Dilemmas
83) Ryle The Concept of Mind
84) Searle Speech Acts
85) Searle Intentionality
86) Sellars W. F. Science, Perception, and Reality
87) Singer Practical Ethics
88) Smart J.J.C. Philosophy and Scientific Realism
89) Smart & Williams Utilitarianism - For and Against
90) Stevenson C. Ethics and Language
91) Strawson P. F. Individuals
92) Tarski Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics
93) Whitehead & Russell Principia Mathematica
94) Wiggins Sameness and Substance
95) Williams Problems of the Self
96) Wisdom Problems of Mind and Matter
97) Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
98) Wittgenstein Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
99) Wittgenstein Tractatus
100)
3. ON THE BORDERS
Feyerabend Against Method
Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Lakatos,v2 Collected Papers (2 vols)
Lakatos Proofs and Refutations
Peirce How to Make our Ideas Clear.
Peirce Some Consequences of Four Incapacities.
Popper Conjectures and Refutations
Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Popper,v2 The Open Society and Its Enemies
Popper Unended Quest
Rorty Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Whitehead Process and Reality
4. ON THE MOVEMENT
Bell David The Analytic tradition
Bergmann G. The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism
Cocchiarella Logical studies in early analytic philosophy
Cohen, L. J. The Dialogue of Reason: An Analysis of Analytical
Philosophy
Coffa J. A. The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap.
Dummett Origins of Analytical Philosophy.
French et al. The Foundations of analytic philosophy
Hacker Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic
Philosophy
Hacking Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
Hylton P Russell, Idealism, & the Emergence of Analytic
Philosophy
Irvine & Wedeking Russell and analytic philosophy
Kneale & Kneale The Development of Logic
Munitz M.K. Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
Passmore A Hundred Years of Philosophy
Passmore Recent philosophers
Romanos G.D. Quine and Analytic Philosophy
Sorensen R.A. Pseudo-problems, how analytic philosophy gets done
Stanley R. The Limits of Analysis
Urmson J. O. Philosophical Analysis: its Development Between the Two
World Wars.
Wang, H. Beyond Analytic Philosophy, doing justice to what we
know
Warnock G. J. English Philosophy since 1900
5. TOOLS
Boolos & Jeffrey Computability and Logic
Dancy Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
Haack Philosophy of Logics
Hughes & Cresswell A New Introduction to Modal Logic
Jeffrey The Logic of Decision
Nagel and Newman Goedel's Proof
Pollock Technical Methods in Philosophy
Quine Mathematical Logic
Quine Methods of Logic
Quine Set Theory and its Logic
Smith & Jones The Philosophy of Mind
6. FURTHER READINGS
(suggestions not included in the top 100)
Almog, et al. Themes from Kaplan
Ammerman R.R. (ed.) Classics of Analytic Philosophy.
Anderson J. Studies in Empirical Philosophy
Anscombe G.E.M. Intention
Apel Towards a Transformation of Philosophy
Armstrong A Theory of Possibility
Armstrong D.M. What is a Law of Nature?
Austin J. L. How to Do Things With Words
Barry Political Argument
Barwise Handbook of Mathematical Logic
Bas van Fraassen Laws and Symmetry
Bigelow & Pargetter Science and Necessity
Bigelow The Reality of Numbers
Black (ed.) Philosophical Analysis
Black (ed.) The Importance of Language
Blackburn Essays in quasi-realism
Broad Five Types of Ethical Theories
Carnap Meaning and Necessity
Cartwright How the Laws of Physics Lie
Castaneda Thinking, Language, and the Strcture of the world
Churchland Matter and Consciousness
Churchland Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
Cockburn D. Other Human Beings
Cohen Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
Danto A. Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge
Dennett The Intentional Stance
Dennett Elbow Room
Devitt Realism and Truth.
Dretske F. Seeing and Knowing
Dummett Elements of Intuitionism.
Dummett Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics.
Dummett Frege and Other Philosophers.
Dummett The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy.
Dummett The Logical Basis of Metaphysics.
Dworkin Taking rights Seriously
Edwards P. The Logic of Moral Discourse.
Elster Ulysses and the Sirens
Feigel Readings in the Philosophy of Science
Feinberg Doing and Deserving (Collected Papers)
Field Realism, Mathematics and Modality
Fodor Psychosemantics
Foot Theories of Ethics
Foot Virtues and Vices
Frege Conceptual Notation
Gabbay,v2,v3,v4 Handbook of Philosophical Logic, 4 vols
Gaerdenfors P. Knowledge in Flux
Geach Mental Acts
Glover Philosophy of Mind
Goldman A. Epistemology and Cognition.
Goodman Languages of Art
Goodman The Structure of Appearance
Hacking The Emergence of Probabiliy
Hacking Representing and Intervening
Hare Moral thinking: its levels, method and point
Davidson & Hintikka Words and Objections.
Hart Concept of Law
Hart Punishment and Responsibility
Hartland-Swann The Analysis of Morals
Hintikka J. Knowledge and Belief
Hintikka J. Models for Modality
Laudan Progress and its Problems
Levi, I. Gambling With Truth
Levi, I. The Enterprise of Knowledge
Lewis,v2 Collected Papers (2 vols.)
Locke, Don Myself and Others
Lycan Mind and Cognition
Mackie,v2 Collected papers 2 vols.
Mackie The Cement of the Universe
Martin, D (ed) Recent essays on truth and the liar paradox
McGinn The Character of Mind
Melden A.I. Free Action
Millikan Language Thought and Other Biological Categories
Moore Ethics
Moore Philosophical Papers
Moore Philosophical Studies
Moore Some Main Problems of Philosophy
Nowell-Smith Ethics
Nozick Philosophical Explanations
Pap A. Elements of Analytical Philosophy
Pap A. Semantics and Necessary Truth
Peacocke A Study of Concepts
Perry The Problem of the Essential Indexical
Philip Pettit The Common Mind
Pitcher G. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Plantinga A. God and Other Minds
Priest In Contradiction
Prior Logic and the Basis of Ethics
Quine Roots of Reference
Quine Theories and Things
Reichenbach Elements of Symbolic Logic
Russell Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Russell My Philosophical Development
Russell Our Knowledge of the External World
Sayre-McCord Moral Realism
Scheffler I. Conditions of Knowledge
Sheffler Consequentialism and its Critics
Sklar L. Space, time and spacetime
Stalnaker, R. Inquiry
Strawson Freedom and Resentment
Strawson Introduction to Logical Theory
Strawson Philosophical Logic
Strawson The Bounds of Sense
Taylor R Metaphysics
Tennant N. Anti-realism and Logic: Truth as Eternal
Toulmin S. The Uses of Argument
Tugendhat Traditional and analytical philosophy
Wiggins Needs, Values, Truth
Williams, D.C. Principles of Empirical Realism
Williams B. Moral Luck
Williams B. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Wisdom J. Other Minds
Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books
Wittgenstein On Certainty
Wittgenstein Zettel
Ziff P. Semantic Analysis