List of important publications in philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Parmenides, On Nature

Plato, Protagoras

Plato, Cratylus

Plato, Phaedrus

Plato, Symposium

Plato, Meno

Plato, Euthyphro

Plato, Apology

Plato, Crito

Plato, Phaedo

Plato, Gorgias

Plato, The Republic

Plato, Timaeus

Plato, Parmenides

Aristotle, Organon

Aristotle, Physics

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Aristotle, On the Soul

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, Politics

Aristotle, Rhetoric

Aristotle, Poetics

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Plotinus, Enneads

Medieval Philosophy

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, c. AD 397

Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, early 5th century

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, c. 500

Avicenna, The Book of Healing

Avicenna, Proof of the Truthful

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

Yehuda Halevi, Kuzari

Saadia Gaon, Emunoth ve-Deoth

Al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers

Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence

Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles, c. 1260

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

Anselm, Proslogion

Modern Philosophy

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, 1509 (printed 1511)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 (printed 1532)

Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

Hugo Grotius, De iure belli ac pacis, 1625

René Descartes, Discourse on Method , 1637

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1641

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, 1677

Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 1677

John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689

Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, 1686

Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding, 1704 (printed 1765)

Gottfried Leibniz, Théodicée, 1710

Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, 1714 (printed 1720)

George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1738–1740

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, 1751

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, 1750

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: or, On Education, 1762

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, 1785

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, 1788

Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement, 1790

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Foundations of the Science of Knowledge, 1794

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit , 1807

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic, 1812–1817

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, 1820

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, printed 1837

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, 1819–1859

Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, 1843

Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 1844

Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own, 1844

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867–1894

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1861–1863

John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, The Subjection of Women, 1869

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 1874

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883–1891

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, 1887

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, 1896

Indian Philosophy

The Upanishads

The Bhagavad Gita ("The Song of God")

Samkhya school:

Isvarakrsna, Sankhya Karika

Nyaya school:

Aksapada Gautama, Nyaya Sutras

Vaisheshika school:

Kanada, Vaisheshika Sutra

Yoga school:

Patañjali, Yoga Sutras

Swami Swatamarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Vedanta school:

Vyasa, Brahma Sutras

Zhou Dynasty

Kongzi, Analects (likely written later by followers)

Kongzi, Five Classics (compiled)

Sunzi, Art of War

Laozi, Dao De Jing

Warring States

Mengzi, [The] Mengzi

Han Fei, [The] Han Feizi

Song Dynasty

Zhou Dunyi, The Taiji Tushuo

Zhu Xi, Four Books [compiled]

Zhu Xi, Reflections on Things at Hand, 1175

Modern

Feng Youlan, A History of Chinese Philosophy, 1934

Feng Youlan, New Rational Philosophy, 1939

Japanese Philosophy

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, approx. 1600 AD

Zeami Motokiyo, Style and Flower

Pre-Meiji Buddhism

Kukai, Attaining Enlightenment in this Very Existence, 817

Honen, One-Sheet Document, 1212

Shinran, Kyogyoshinsho, 1224

Dogen Zenji, Shōbōgenzō, 1231-1253

Hakuin Ekaku, Wild Ivy

Modern Philosophy

Kitaro Nishida, An Inquiry into the Good, 1911

Kitaro Nishida, From the Acting to the Seeing, 1923–27

Suzuki Daisetsu Teitaro, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, 1934

Nishitani Keiji, Religion and Nothingness, 1961

Phenomenology and Existentialism

Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations (1900/1901)

Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (1913)

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927)

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations (1931)

Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945)

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)

Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (1960)

Paul Ricœur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (1965)

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967)

Structuralism and Post-structuralism

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966)

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968)

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972-1980)

Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (1974)

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975)

Critical Theory and Marxism

Georg Lukacs, "History and Class Consciousness" (1923)

Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (1941)

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (1945)

Louis Althusser, Reading Capital (1965)

Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics (1966)

Jürgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action (1981)

Alain Badiou, Being and Event (1988)

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)

Roderick Chisholm, A Theory of Knowing

Alvin Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition

John McDowell, Mind and World

Susan Haack, Evidence and Enquiry

Laurence Bonjour, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

Stephen Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason

Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and its Limits

Keith DeRose, The Case for Contextualism

Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interest

Hilary Kornblith, Knowledge and its Place in Nature

Jonathan Kvanvig, The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

David K. Lewis, Elusive Knowledge

Willard van Orman Quine, Epistemology Naturalized

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

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

Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

David Kellogg Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds

John McDowell, Mind and World

Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Stephen Mumford, Dispositions

Theodore Sider, Writing the Book of the World

David Chalmers, Constructing the World

Philosophy of biology

Elliott Sober, The Nature of Selection

Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, 1945

Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories

Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Philosophy of chemistry

J. van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry, Leuven University Press, 2000.

Philosophy of mind

David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind and The Character of Consciousness

Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained

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

John Searle, Intentionality

Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind

Ruth Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories.

Jerry Fodor, The Language of Thought

Jerry Fodor, The Modularity of Mind

Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind

Tyler Burge, Anti-Individualism and the Mental

Paul Churchland, Eliminative Materialism and Propositional Attitudes

Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science

David K. Lewis, An Argument for the Identity Theory

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, The Principles of Psychology

Donald Davidson, The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme

Philosophy of religion

Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds, 1967

Alvin Plantinga, 'Is Belief in God Properly Basic', 1981

Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God, 1979

William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, 1979

J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism, 1982

Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, 'Religion Without Explanation'

William Rowe, 'The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look', 1996

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

David K. Lewis, 'How to Define Theoretical Terms', 1970.

Bas C. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, 1980

Larry Laudan, 'The Demise of the Demarcation Problem', 1983

Aesthetics

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

Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

Ethics

G. E. M. Anscombe, Modern Moral Philosophy

Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices and Natural Goodness

David Gauthier, Morals by Agreement

Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality

Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live

Susan Hurley, Natural Reasons

Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality

Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity

John McDowell, Values as Secondary Qualities

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica

Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit, On What Matters

Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms

W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good

Thomas M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other

Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism

Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

Michael A. Smith, The Moral Problem

Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Freedom and responsibility

P. F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment

Bioethics

Paul Ramsey, The Patient as a Person

Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man

Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"

Business ethics

Tibor R. Machan, The Morality of Business: A Profession for Human Wealthcare (2007)

Feminism

Judith Butler, 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution', (1988)

Philosophy of economics

Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values

Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Elizabeth S. Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics

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

Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty

Postcolonialism

Edward Said, Orientalism

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 Gödel, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems", 1931

Saul Kripke, "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic"

Alfred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth"

Donald Davidson, "Truth and Meaning"

Philosophy of language

Gottlob Frege, "Sense and Reference"

Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Willard Van Orman Quine, "Word and Object"

J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses"

Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity

H. P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"

Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language

Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit

David K. Lewis, 'General Semantics'

David Chalmers, 'Two Dimensional Semantics'

Philosophy of mathematics

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica

Paul Benacerraf What Numbers Could not Be

Paul Benacerraf, Mathematical Truth

Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings

George Boolos, Logic, Logic and Logic

Penelope Maddy, Second Philosophy.

Hartry Field, Without Numbers.