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This is a '''list of important publications in philosophy''', organized by field. The publications on this list are regarded as important because they have served or are serving as one or more of the following roles:
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* ''Foundation'' &ndash; A publication whose ideas would go on to be the foundation of a topic or field within ].
* ''Breakthrough'' &ndash; A publication that changed or added to philosophical knowledge significantly.
* ''Influence'' &ndash; A publication that has had a significant impact on the academic study of philosophy or the world.
{{^|An entry in this list should include citations for statements about the importance of the publication. Otherwise it may be challenged and removed.}}


==Historical texts== == Historical texts ==
===Western philosophy===
====Ancient philosophy====


=== European and Islamic philosophy ===
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*], '']'', AD 101
*Epictetus, '']'', AD 135
* ], '']''
*], '']''


====Medieval philosophy==== ==== Ancient philosophy ====
* ] ({{circa|early 5th century}}), ''Fragments''
* ] ({{circa|early 5th century}}), ''On Nature''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/ |title=Parmenides (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |last=Palmer |first=John |date=2 August 2016 |website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref>
* ] (early period, {{circa|399|387 BC|lk=no}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iep.utm.edu/plato/#SH3b |title=Plato (427–347 B.C.E.) |last1=Brickhouse |first1=Thomas |last2=Smith |first2=Nicholas |website=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |issn=2161-0002 |access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref>), '']''
* Plato (early period), '']''
* Plato (early period), '']''
* Plato (early period), '']''
* Plato (early period), '']''
* Plato (early transitional period, {{circa|387|380 BC|lk=no}}), '']''
* Plato (early transitional period), '']''
* Plato (middle period, {{circa|380|360 BC|lk=no}}), '']''
* Plato (middle period), '']''
* Plato (late transitional period, {{circa|360|355 BC|lk=no}}), '']''
* Plato (late transitional period), '']''
* Plato (late transitional period), '']''
* Plato (late period, {{circa|355|347 BC|lk=no}}), '']''
* Plato (late period), '']''
* Plato (Bk. 1, early period. Bks. 2–10, late period), '']''
* ] ({{floruit|384 – 322 BC}}), '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* Aristotle, '']''
* ], (341 – 270 BC), '']''
* ] ({{floruit|99 – 55 BC|lk=no}}), '']''
* ], (106 – 43 BC), '']''
* Cicero, '']''
* '']'' (4BC – 65AD), '']''
* ] (161 – 180 AD), '']''
* ] (108 AD), '']''
* Epictetus (125 AD), '']''
* ] (c. 160 – 210 AD), '']''
* ] (270 AD), '']''
* ] (c. 234 – 305 AD), '']''
* ], '']''<ref>Hermeticism has philosophical as well as a religious and esoteric aspect. </ref>


==== Medieval philosophy ====
*], '']''
*Augustine of Hippo, '']'', circa AD 397 * ], '']'', c. AD 397
*Augustine of Hippo, '']'', Early 5th century * Augustine of Hippo, '']'', early 5th century
* ], ''The Elements of Theology''
*], '']'', circa 500
*], '']'' * ], ''Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles''
* ], '']'', c. 500
*Maimonides, '']''
* ], ]
*], '']''
*], '']'' * ], '']''
*], '']'' * Avicenna, '']''
*], '']'' * ], '']''
* Maimonides, '']''
*], '']'', circa 1260
*Thomas Aquinas, '']'' * ], '']''
* ], '']''
* ], '']''
* ], '']''
* ], ]
* ], '']'', c. 1260
* Thomas Aquinas, '']''
* ], ''Ordinatio (aka Opus Oxoniense)''<ref>The ''Ordinatio'', is taken to be Scotus' premier work.</ref>
* ], ''Refutation of the Rationalists''
* ], '']''


====Modern philosophy==== ==== Early modern philosophy ====
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* ], '']'', 1509 (printed 1511)
* ], '']'', 1513 (printed 1532)
* Niccolò Machiavelli, '']'', 1517 (printed 1533)
* ], '']'', 1570–1592 (printed 1580–1595)
* ], '']'', 1620
* ], '']'', 1625
* ], '']'', 1628
* René Descartes, '']'', 1637
* René Descartes, '']'', 1641
* René Descartes, '']'', 1644
* René Descartes, '']'', 1649
* ], '']'', 1651
* ], '']'', 1670
* ], '']'', 1677
* ], '']'', 1677
* ], '']'', 1680
* ], '']'', 1686
* ], ''Dialogues on Metaphysics'', 1688
* ], '']'', 1689
* John Locke, '']'', 1689
* ], ''The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy'', 1690
* Gottfried Leibniz, '']'', 1704 (printed 1765)
* ], '']'', 1710
* Gottfried Leibniz, '']'', 1710
* Gottfried Leibniz, '']'', 1714 (printed 1720)
* ], '']'', 1725, 1730, 1744
* ], ''An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'', 1725
* ], '']'', 1738–1740
* ], '']'', 1747
* David Hume, '']'', 1748
* ], '']'', 1748
* ], '']'', 1750
* ], '']'', 1751
* David Hume, '']'', 1751
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, '']'', 1754
* ], '']'', 1756
* Edmund Burke, '']'', 1757
* ], '']'', 1759
* ], '']'', 1759
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, '']'', 1762
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, '']'', 1762
* Voltaire, '']'', 1763
* ], '']'', 1764
* Adam Smith, '']'', 1776
* ], '']'', 1781
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', 1783
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', 1785
* Thomas Reid, ''Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man'', 1785
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', 1788
* ], '']'', 1789
* Edmund Burke, '']'', 1790
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', 1790
* ], '']'', 1790
* ], '']'', 1794
* ], '']'', 1791
* Mary Wollstonecraft, '']'', 1792
* ], '']'', 1794
* ], '']'', 1797


==== 19th-century philosophy ====
* ], '']'', 1532
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1802
* Sir Francis Bacon, '']'' * ], '']'', 1807
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, '']'', 1812–1817
* ], '']''
* ], '']'', 1819–1859
* René Descartes, '']''
* René Descartes, '']'' * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, '']'', 1820
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, '']'', 1822, 1828, 1830, printed 1837
* René Descartes, '']''
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1830–1842
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1835
* ], ''The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History'', 1840
* Blaise Pascal, '']''
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1841
* ], '']'', 1843
* Gottfried Leibniz, '']''
* Søren Kierkegaard, '']'', 1843
* Gottfried Leibniz, '']''
* ], '']'', 1651 * ], ''], Ratiocinative and Inductive'', 1843
* ], '']'' * Søren Kierkegaard, '']'', 1844
* John Locke, '']'', 1689 * ], '']'', 1844
* Søren Kierkegaard, '']'', 1846
* ], '']''
* ], '']'' * ] and ], '']'', 1848
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1859
* John Stuart Mill, '']'', 1861–1863
* David Hume, '']''
* ], ''System of Synthetic Philosophy'', 1862–1892
* ], '']
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, '']'' * Karl Marx, '']'', 1867–1894
* ], '']'' * John Stuart Mill and ], '']'', 1869
* ], ''The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method'', 1874
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', ]
* Immanuel Kant, '']'', ] * ], '']'', 1874
* ], ''Illustrations of the Logic of Science'', 1877–1878
* ], '']''
* Charles Sanders Peirce, "]", 1878
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, '']''
* ], '']'', 1879
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, '']''
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1883–1891
* ], '']'', ] * Friedrich Nietzsche, '']'', 1886
* Søren Kierkegaard, '']'', ] * Friedrich Nietzsche, '']'', 1887
* ], '']'' * ], '']'', 1889
* ], '']'' * Henri Bergson, '']'', 1896
* Karl Marx, '']''
* ], '']'', ]
* John Stuart Mill, '']''
* John Stuart Mill, '']''
* John Stuart Mill, '']''
* ], '']''
* Friedrich Nietzsche, '']''
* ], '']'', ]


===Eastern philosophy=== === Asian philosophy ===


==== Indian philosophy ====
*], '']'', approx 1600 AD
* ''The ]''
* ''The ]'' ("The Song of God")
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====Buddhist philosophy==== ==== Chinese philosophy ====
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*], '']'' (''Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way'')


====Confucianism==== ===== Zhou Dynasty =====
* ], '']'' (likely written later by followers)
* Kongzi, ] (compiled)
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===== Warring States =====
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:* ''The ]'' or ''The Book of Odes'' * ], '']''
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:*], ''The ]''
:*], ''The Mencius''
*], '']''


====Hindu philosophy==== ===== Song Dynasty =====
*''The ]'' * ''The Record of Linji''
*''The ]'' ("The Song of God") * ], ''The Taiji Tushuo''
* ], '']''
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* Zhu Xi, ''Reflections on Things at Hand'', 1175
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====Chinese Legalism==== ==== Japanese philosophy ====
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====Taoism==== ===== Pre-Meiji Buddhism =====
* ], ''Attaining Enlightenment in this Very Existence'', 817
* ], '']'', 1212
* ], '']'', 1224
* ], '']'', 1231–1253
* ], ''Wild Ivy''


===== Early modern =====
*], '']'', approximately 600 BC ??
* ], ''Style and Flower'', approx. 1400 AD
*], '']''
*], '']'' * ], '']'', approx. 1600 AD


== Contemporary philosophy ==
====Mohism====
*], '']''


==Twentieth-century philosophy== === Logic and philosophy of logic ===
* ] and ], '']'', 1910–13/1925–27
====Epistemology====
* ], "]", 1931
* ], "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", 1933/1956
* Alfred Tarski, ''Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of the Deductive Sciences'', 1941/1994
* ], "Inference and Meaning", 1953
* Alfred Tarski, ''Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938'', 1956/1983
* ] and ], ''The Development of Logic'', 1962
* ], "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic", 1963
* ], "Truth and Meaning", 1967
* ], ''Philosophy of Logic'', 1970/1986
* ], ''Counterfactuals'', 1973
* ], ''Philosophy of Logics'', 1978
* Peter Spirtes, ], and Richard Scheines, ''Causation, Prediction, and Search'', 1993
* ], ''Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism'', 2000


=== Philosophy of language ===
*], '']''
*], "]" * ], "]", 1892
*], "]", 1963 * ], "]", 1905
* ], '']'' (also called ''The Tractatus''), 1921
* ], '']'', 1936
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, '']'', 1953
* ], '']'', 1955/1962
* J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses", 1956
* ], '']'', 1960
* ], "]", 1967/1987
* ], ''Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays'', 1969/1976
* ], ''Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language'', 1969
* ], '']'', 1972/1980
* ], "General Semantics", 1972
* ], "Radical Interpretation", 1973
* Donald Davidson, "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme", 1973
* ], '']'', 1973/1981
* ] and ], ''Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language'', 1987/1999
* ], "Demonstratives", 1989
* ], ''The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind'', 1991
* ], ''Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment'', 1994


====Metaphysics==== === Epistemology ===
* ], '']'', 1912
* ], '']'', 1923
* ], "]", 1925
* ], '']'', 1932
* ], "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", 1963
* ], ''Theory of Knowledge'', 1966/1989
* ], "Epistemology Naturalized", 1971
* ], ''Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism'', 1975
* ], '']'', 1979
* ], ''The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy'', 1979
* ], "What is Justified Belief?", 1979
* ], "The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge", 1980
* ], ''The Structure of Empirical Knowledge'', 1985
* ], "Epistemic Dependence", 1985
* Alvin Goldman, ''Epistemology and Cognition'', 1986
* ], ''The Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation'', 1990
* ], ''Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology'', 1993/2009
* ], ''Mind and World'', 1994
* ], "Elusive Knowledge", 1996
* Alvin Goldman, ''Knowledge in a Social World'', 1999
* ], "Truth and Justification", 1999
* ], '']'', 2000
* ], ''Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective'', 2001
* ], ''The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'', 2003
* ], ''Knowledge and Practical Interests'', 2005
* ], ''Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing'', 2007
* ], ''The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context'', 2009


=== Metaphysics ===
*], '']'', c. 1929
* ], "]", 1903
*], '']''
*], "]", 1903 * ], "The Refutation of Idealism", 1903
* Henri Bergson, '']'', 1907
*], '']'' (a.k.a. ''The Tractatus'')
* ], ''Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking'', 1907
*], '']''
*], '']'' * ], "The Unreality of Time", 1908
*], '']'' * ], ''Experience and Nature'', 1925/1929
* ], '']'', 1929
*], "]"
* ], ''An Essay on Metaphysics'', 1940
*W.V.O. Quine, "]"
*W.V.O. Quine, '']'', 1980 * ], "On What There Is", 1948
*], ''Naming and Necessity''. * ], ''Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic'', 1947/1956
* Rudolf Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology", 1950
*], '']''
* W. V. O. Quine, "]", 1951
* ], ''The Foundations of Metaphysics in Science'', 1965
* ], '']'', 1972/1980
* ], ''Universals and Scientific Realism'', 1978
* W. V. O. Quine, ''Theories and Things'', 1981
* ], '']'', 1981
* ], '']'', 1984
* ], '']'', 1986
* ], ''Metaphysics'', 1993/2015
* ], ''Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy'', 1996
* ], ''The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time'', 1998
* ], ''Fiction and Metaphysics'', 1999
* ], ''Writing the Book of the World'', 2011
* ], ''Constructing the World'', 2012


=== Philosophy of mind ===
* ], '']'', 1949
* ], "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", 1956
* ], "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'", 1958
* ], "An Argument for the Identity Theory", 1966
* ], "]", 1974
* ], ''The Language of Thought'', 1975
* ], "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", 1975
* ], "Individualism and the Mental", 1979
* ] and ], '']'', 1980
* ], "Eliminative Materialism and Propositional Attitudes", 1981
* Jerry Fodor, ''The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology'', 1983
* ], ''Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind'', 1983
* ], ''From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief'', 1983
* ], ''Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism'', 1984
* ], ''Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain'', 1986
* Thomas Nagel, '']'', 1986
* ], ''The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason'', 1987
* ], '']: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics'', 1989
* ], '']'', 1991
* ], ], and ], ''The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience'', 1991
* ], '']'', 1996
* ], ''Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again'', 1997
* Andy Clark & David Chalmers, ''The Extended Mind'', 1998
* ], ''How the Body Shapes the Mind'', 2005
* Andy Clark, ''Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension'', 2008
* David Chalmers, ''The Character of Consciousness'', 2010
* ], '']: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference'', 2010
* Evan Thompson, ''Mind in Life'', 2010
* Andy Clark, ''Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind'', 2015


====Philosophy of biology==== === Philosophy of religion ===
* ], "]", 1896
* William James, '']: A Study in Human Nature'', 1902
* ], '']'', 1945
* ], '']: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God'', 1967
* ], ''The Existence of God'', 1979
* ], '']'', 1979
* Alvin Plantinga, "Is Belief in God Properly Basic?", 1981
* ], ''God Without Being'', 1982
* ], ''The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God'', 1982
* ], ''An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent'', 1989/2004
* ], "The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look", 1996
* ], ''Warranted Christian Belief'', 2000
* ], ''Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation'', 2001


=== Philosophy of mathematics ===
*], ''The Nature of Selection''
*], '']'', 1945 * ], '']'', 1884
* ] and ], '']'', 1910–13/1925–27
* ], ''Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy'', 1919
* ], "]", 1960
* ] and ], ''Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings'', 1964/1983
* ], ''The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference'', 1975
* ], '']'', 1976
* ], ''Realism in Mathematics'', 1990
* Penelope Maddy, ''Second Philosophy: A Naturalistic Method'', 2007


====Philosophy of chemistry==== === Philosophy of science ===
* ], ''Science and Hypothesis'', 1902, and ''The Value of Science'', 1905
* ], ''Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science'', 1927/1949
* ], '']'', 1934/1959
* ], ''Logic: The Theory of Inquiry'', 1938
* ], ''Logical Foundations of Probability'', 1950/1962
* ], ''The Rise of Scientific Philosophy'', 1951
* ], ''The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction'', 1953
* ], '']'', 1955
* ], ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy'', 1958
* ], '']: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation'', 1961
* ], '']'', 1962/1996
* ], ''] and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science'', 1965
* ], ''Scientific Research: Strategy and Philosophy'' (republished in 1998 as ''Philosophy of Science''), 1967
* Stephen Toulmin, ''Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts'', 1972
* Mario Bunge, ''Treatise on Basic Philosophy'', 8 volumes, 1974–1989
* ], ''A Realist Theory of Science'', 1975
* ], '']: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge'', 1975/1993
* ], ''Progress and its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth'', 1978
* ], "How to Define Theoretical Terms", 1979
* ], '']'', 1980
* ], ''The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution'', 1980
* ], ''Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'', 1984
* ] and ], '']: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life'', 1985
* ], ''Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach'', 1988
* ], ''Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science'', 1988
* ], ''Computational Philosophy of Science'', 1988
* ], ''Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry'', 1990
* ], ''What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge'', 1991
* ], ''Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives'', 1991
* Paul Thagard, ''Conceptual Revolutions'', 1992
* ], ''The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science'', 1993
* ], ''Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge'', 1996
* ], '']'', 1998
* ], ''Real Science: What it Is, and What it Means'', 2000
* ], ''Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science'', 2003/2021
* ], ''Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress'', 2004
* ], ''Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality'', 2007
* ], ''Creating Scientific Concepts'', 2008
* ], ''Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal'', 2009
* ] and Robert C. Richardson, ''Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research'', 2010


==== Philosophy of physics ====
*J. van Brakel, '']'', Leuven University Press, 2000.
* ], ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory'', 1906
* ], '']'', 1922
* ], ''The Philosophy of Space and Time'', 1928/1957
* Albert Einstein, ], ], "]", 1935
* ], ''Philosophy of Physical Science'', 1939
* ], ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'', 1958
* ], '']'', 1963/1973
* ], "On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox", 1964
* ], ''Philosophical Foundations of Physics'', 1966
* ], ''Space, Time, and Spacetime'', 1974
* ], ''How the Laws of Physics Lie'', 1983
* ], ''Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science'', 1983
* John Stewart Bell, ''Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy'', 1987/2004
* Lawrence Sklar, ''Philosophy of Physics'', 1992
* Lawrence Sklar, ''Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics'', 1993
* ], '']: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science'', 1994/1999
* ], ''The Philosophy of Physics'', 1999
* ] and Nick Huggett, ''Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity'', 2001
* ], ''Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective'', 2005


====Philosophy of mind==== ==== Philosophy of biology ====
* ], ''] The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell'', 1945
*], '']''
* ], ''Philosophy of Biological Science'', 1974
*], '']''
* ] and ], "]: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", 1979
*], '']'', 1913
* Stephen Jay Gould, '']'', 1981/1996
*Edmund Husserl, '']'', 1900-1901
* ], '']'', 1982
*], "]"
*], "]" * ], '']: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance'', 1982
*], '']'', 1949 * ], ''The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus'', 1984
* ], ''Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy'', 1986
*], "]", 1956
* ] and Earl D. McCoy, ''Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation'', 1993
* Elliott Sober, ''Philosophy of Biology'', 1993/2000
* ], '']: Evolution and the Meanings of Life'', 1995
* Martin Mahner and ], ''Foundations of Biophilosophy'', 1997
* ] and ], ''Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology'', 1999
* ], ''Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism'', 2003
* ], ''The Music of Life: Biology Beyond the Genome'', 2006
* ], ''Evolution and the Levels of Selection'', 2006
* Elliott Sober, ''Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science'', 2008
* Michael Ruse, ''The Philosophy of Human Evolution'', 2010


====Philosophy of physics==== ==== Philosophy of chemistry ====
* ] and ], "The Case for the Philosophy of Chemistry", 1997
* Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, and Lee C. McIntyre (eds.), ''Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline'', 2006


*], ''The Philosophy of Space and Time'' ==== Philosophy of psychology ====
* ], '']'', 1890
*], "On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox", 1964
* ], ''Science and Human Behavior'', 1953
* ], ''The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science'', 1964
* ], "Theory-Testing in Psychology and Physics: A Methodological Paradox", 1967
* ], ''The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences'', 1979/2015
* ], ''Cognitive Psychology and its Implications'', 1980/2019
* ] (ed.), ''Readings in Philosophy of Psychology'', 1981
* ] and Rubén Ardilla, ''Philosophy of Psychology'', 1987
* Paul E. Meehl, "Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology", 1992
* ], '']'', 2002
* ], ''Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion'', 2004


====Philosophy of psychology==== ==== Philosophy of economics ====
* ], '']'', 1932
* ], '']'', 1951/1963
* ], ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'', 1962
* ], ''Economic Philosophy'', 1962
* ], "Economics as a Moral Science", 1969
* ], ''On Economic Inequality'', 1973
* ], ''Value in Ethics and Economics'', 1993
* ], '']'', 1994
* Amartya Sen, '']'', 1999
* ], '']'', 2001/2011


=== Ethics ===
*], '']''
* ], '']'', 1903
*], "]"
* ] and ], ''Ethics'', 1908/1932
* ], ''The Right and the Good'', 1930
* ], '']'', 1943
* ], "]", 1958
* ], "]", 1972
* ], '']'', 1977
* ], '']'', 1978
* ], ''Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy'', 1978
* ], '']'', 1978
* Peter Singer, '']'', 1979/2011
* ], '']'', 1981/2007
* ], ''The Rejection of Consequentialism'', 1982/1994
* ], '']'', 1984
* ], '']'', 1985
* ], '']'', 1986
* ], "Moral Realism", 1986
* ], '']: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy'', 1986
* ], ''Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics'', 1986
* ], ''Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World'', 1988
* ], ''The Limits of Morality'', 1989
* ], ''Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory Of Normative Judgment'', 1990
* ], ''Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care'', 1993
* ], ''Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics'', 1994
* ], ''The Moral Problem'', 1994
* ], ''The Sources of Normativity'', 1996
* ], '']: Our Illusion of Innocence'', 1996
* ], '']'', 1998
* ], ''On Virtue Ethics'', 1999
* Philippa Foot, ''Natural Goodness'', 2001
* Allan Gibbard, ''Thinking How to Live'', 2003
* ], ''Ethics Without Principles'', 2004
* ], '']'', 2005
* ], ''The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global'', 2006
* Derek Parfit, '']'', 2011/2017


====Philosophy of religion==== ==== Meta-ethics ====
* ], "Freedom and Resentment", 1962
* ], "Virtue and Reason", 1972
* John McDowell, "Non-Cognitivism and Rule-Following", 1981
* ], ''Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics'', 1993


==== Bioethics ====
*], '']'', 1982
* ], ''Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control'', 1970
* Paul Ramsey, ''The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics'', 1970
* ], "]", 1971
* ], "Why Abortion is Immoral", 1989


====Philosophy of science==== === Aesthetics ===
*], '']'', 1892 * ], '']'', 1896
*], '']'', 1959 * ], ''Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General Linguistic'', 1902
*], '']'', 1962 * ], '']'', 1920
*], '']'' * ], '']'', 1934
* ], "]", 1935
*], '']: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge'', 1975
*], '']'', 1980 * ], ''The Principles of Art'', 1938
* ], ''Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism'', 1958
*], '']''
* ], ''The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things'', 1962
* ], '']: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols'', 1968/1976
* ], ''Art and Its Objects'', 1968
* ], ''Visual Thinking'', 1969
* ], '']'', 1970
* ], ''Essays on Performance Theory'', 1976/2004
* ], ''The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art'', 1981
* ], ''The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart'', 1990
* ], ''Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts'', 1990
* ], ''Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art'', 1992/2000
* Arthur Danto, ''After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History'', 1997
* ], ''The Aesthetics of Music'', 1997
* Roger Scruton, ''Beauty'', 2009


=== Social philosophy ===
===Ethics, value, and social philosophy===
====Aesthetics==== ==== Identity ====
* ], '']'', 1978
* ], "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution", 1988
* Judith Butler, '']'', 1990
* ], '']'', 2006
* ], ''The Ethics of Identity'', 2005
* ], '']'', 2006
* ], ''On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life'', 2012
* ], ''Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique'', 2012


==== Philosophy of education ====
*], '']''
*], '']'' * ], '']'', 1916
*], '']'', 1968 * ], '']'', 1948
*], '']'' * ], '']'', 1968


====Ethics==== ==== Philosophy of history ====
* ], '']'', 1918 & 1922
* ], '']'', 1946
* ], ''Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History'', 1949
* ], ''The Nature of Historical Explanation'', 1952
* ], '']'', 1961
* ], ''Analytical Philosophy of History'', 1965


==== Philosophy of law ====
*], "]"
* ], ''An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law'', 1954
*] and ], "]"
* ], '']'', 1961
*], "Values as Secondary Qualities"
*], '']'' * ], ''The Morality of Law'', 1964/1969
*], '']'' * ], '']'', 1977
* ], '']'', 1980/2011
*], '']''
* Ronald Dworkin, '']'', 1986
*], "]"


=====Bioethics===== === Political philosophy ===
* ], '']'', 1914
* ], '']'', 1932
* ], ''Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom'', 1936
* ], '']'', 1939
* Jacques Maritain, ''The Rights of Man and Natural Law'', 1942
* ], '']'', 1944
* ], '']'', 1945
* ], '']'', 1951
* ], '']'', 1953
* ], '']'', 1953
* ], '']'', 1958
* ], "]", 1958
* ], '']'', 1961
* ], '']'', 1971
* ], '']'', 1974
* ], '']'', 1982/1998
* ], '']: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality'', 1983
* ], ''The Morality of Freedom'', 1986
* ], ''Lectures on Ideology and Utopia'', 1986
* ], '']'', 1987
* ], '']'', 1992
* ], ''The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts'', 1992
* John Rawls, '']'', 1993
* ], ''Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights'', 1995
* ], '']'', 1996
* ], ''Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition'', 1997
* ], '']: The Progressive Alternative'', 1998
* ], '']'', 2001
* ], ''The Idea of Justice'', 2009


=== Continental philosophy ===
*], '']''
==== Phenomenology and existentialism ====
*Paul Ramsey, '']''
* ], '']'', 1900/1901
*], "]"
* Edmund Husserl, ''Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy'', 1913
* ], ''Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values'', 1913/1916
* ], '']'', 1923
* ], '']'', 1927
* Edmund Husserl, '']'', 1931
* ], ''The Phenomenology of the Social World'', 1932
* ], '']'', 1942
* ], '']'', 1943
* ], '']'', 1945
* ], ''Existence and the Existent'', 1947
* ], '']'', 1949
* ], '']'', 1961
* Emmanuel Levinas, ''], or Beyond Essence'', 1974
* ], ''Being Given'', 1997


==== Hermeneutics and deconstruction ====
=====Business ethics=====
* ], '']'', 1960
=====Feminism=====
* ], '']: An Essay on Interpretation'', 1965
* ], '']'', 1967
* Jacques Derrida, '']'', 1967
* Hans-Georg Gadamer, ''Philosophical Hermeneutics'', 1976
* Paul Ricœur, ''Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning'', 1976
* Paul Ricœur, ''Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action, and Interpretation'', 1981
* ], "Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism", 2002


==== Structuralism and post-structuralism ====
*], '']''
* ], '']'', 1949
* ], '']'', 1961
* Michel Foucault, '']'', 1963
* Michel Foucault, '']'', 1966
* ], '']'', 1968
* Gilles Deleuze, '']'', 1969
* Gilles Deleuze and ], '']'', 1972–1980
* ], '']'', 1973
* ], ''Speculum of the Other Woman'', 1974
* Michel Foucault, '']'', 1975
* Michel Foucault, '']'', 1976
* Jean Baudrillard, '']'', 1981


====Existentialism==== ==== Critical theory and Marxism ====
* ], '']: Studies in Marxist Dialectics'', 1923
* ]. '']'', 1923
* ], '']: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory'', 1941
* ] and ], '']'', 1944
* Herbert Marcuse, '']'', 1945
* ], ''Critique of Everyday Life'', 1947, 1961, 1981
* ], '']'', 1960
* Herbert Marcuse, '']'', 1964
* ], '']'', 1965
* Theodor Adorno, '']'', 1966
* ], ''The Imaginary Institution of Society'', 1975
* ], '']: A Defense'', 1978
* ], '']'', 1981
* ], '']: The Experience of Modernity'', 1982
* ], ''Being and Event'', 1988
* ], '']'', 1989


=== Eastern philosophy ===
*], '']''
* ], '']'', 1911
*Jean-Paul Sartre, "]"
* Kitaro Nishida, ''From the Acting to the Seeing'', 1923–27
* ], '']'', 1934
* ], ''A History of Chinese Philosophy'', 1934
* Feng Youlan, ''New Rational Philosophy'', 1939
* "]",<ref>'New Confucianism is perhaps the most influential form of Confucian philosophy in the twentieth century: The following essay, published on New Year's Day 1958, is often referred to as the "New Confucian Manifesto" (even though that particular phrase never occurs in it).' {{cite web |title=Eirik Harris' translation of "Manifesto on Behalf of Chinese Culture," by Mou Zongsan et al. |url=https://www.hackettpublishing.com/mou_zongsan_manifesto |website=hackettpublishing.com |access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref> 1958
* ], '']'', 1961


==See also==
====Philosophy of economics====
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==Notes==
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====Philosophy of history====
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====Philosophy of law====

*], ''Natural Law and Natural Rights''
*], '']'', 1994.
*], ''The Morality of Law''
*], ''Law's Empire''

====Political philosophy====

*], '']''
*], '']''
*], '']'', 1971
*], '']''
*], V.I. '']''
*], '']''

===Logic, language, and mathematics===
====Logic and philosophy of logic====

*], "]"
*], '']''
*] and ], '']'', 1910-1913
*], "]", 1931
*], "]"
*], "]"
*], '']''
*], "]"

====Philosophy of language====

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*], '']''
*], "]"
*], "]"

====Philosophy of mathematics====
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  2. Brickhouse, Thomas; Smith, Nicholas. "Plato (427–347 B.C.E.)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 2161-0002. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
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