Hungry for more?
By popular demand: these are the books I recommend for students looking for extra reading materials.
They are expressly NOT required for any course I teach. But they are a great read for those interested!
If you’re one of my students: once you read this, feel free to come by my office and talk about it.
Additionally, if you’re interested in the canon of philosophical books that philosophy majors study,
I have a list of those as well. Happy reading!
Gutenberg Bible
1454
THE BIG PICTURE
- Just Getting Started
- Aurelius | Meditations
- Button | The Consolations of Philosophy
- Where Did We Come From?
- Harari | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Where Are We Headed?
- Friedman | The World is Flat
- Harari | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- What Can We Do?
- Sacks | The Dignity of Difference
- XXX | XXX
BEYOND THE INTRODUCTORY COURSE
- Ethics
- Macintyre | After Virtue
- Ross | The Right and the Good
- Metaphysics
- XXX | XXX
- Baudrilliard | Simularcra & Simulation
- Existentialism
- Kushner | When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough
- Yalom | Love’s Executioner
- Epistemology
- Frankfurt | On Bullsh*t
- Foucault | XXX
- Feminism
- hooks | Ain’t I a Woman?
- Adichie | We Should All Be Feminists
- Phenomenology
- XXX | XXX
- XXX | XXX
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
- Chinese Philosophy
- Chan | A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
- Norden | Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Daoism
- Sunzi (孙子) | The Art of War
- Hoff | The Tao of Pooh
- Hindu Philosophy
- Matilal | Ethics & Epics
- Easwaran (Ed.) | The Upanishads
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Siderits | Buddhism as Philosophy
- Garfield | Engaging Buddhism
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
- Judaism in General
- Telushkin | Jewish Literacy
- XXX | Jewish Literacy
- The Holocaust
- XXX | XXX
- XXX | XXX
- Jewish Ethics
- Buber | I and Thou
- Levinas | Totality & Infinity
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
- Christianity in General
- Lewis | Mere Christianity
- Pope Francis | The Name of God is Mercy
- HIstory of the Church
- Carroll | Constantine’s Sword
- MacCulloch | Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
- Christian Ethics
- Niebuhr | Moral Man and Immoral Society
- Tillich | The Courage to Be
ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
- Islam in General
- Aslan | No god but God
- Hodgson | The Venture of Islam vols. 1-3
- Islamic Philosophy
- Menocal | The Ornament of the World
- Fakhry | A History of Islamic Philosophy
- Islamist Terrorism
- Saïd | Orientalism
- Lewis | What Went Wrong?
AMERICAN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
- American Indian History
- Brown | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Weatherford | Native Roots
- American Indian Philosophy
- Deloria | God is Red
- Cordova | How It Is
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
- African Philosophy
- Janz | Philosophy in an African Place
- Mudimbe | The Invention of Africa
- Post-Colonial Ethics in Africa
- Achebe | Things Fall Apart
- Mbembe | Critique of Black Reason