PATROLOGIAE ANALITICAE LIBRI C

Version 20.2

Last updated: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 06:30:07 PM

A Short Bibliography on Analytic Philosophy
with a list of the top 100 books in the field
selected by members of the internet community and
compiled by Luciano Floridi.

Please send comments, addenda and corrigenda to Luciano.Floridi@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

1. Introduction

The present project begun in 1994. Originally, it was the outcome of a "shopping list" commissioned by a library in Italy. Its aim is now to provide a student bibliography of at least 100 essential readings in the field of analytic philosophy, the one hundred books of analytic philosophy we would save from a burning philosophy library. It is an open text, and I welcome suggestions for corrigenda or addenda. As for the Latin title, I hope its sense (not just its meaning) is obvious. Luciano.Floridi@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

 

2. Classics

1. Alexander S, Space, Time and Deity

2. Analytic Philosophy, 2 series, Oxford 1962-65

3. Anscombe, 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 Problem of Knowledge

10. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic

11. Benacerraf & Putnam (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics

12. Broad C.D., Mind and its Place in Nature

13. Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World

14. Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language

15. Chisholm, Theory of Knowledge

16. Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

17. Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events

18. Dennett, Brainstorms

19. Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language

20. Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas

21. Evans, The Varieties of Reference

22. Evans & McDowell, Truth & Meaning: Essays in Semantics

23. Flew (ed.), Logic and Language, 2 series, 1951-53.

24. Fodor, Representations

25. Fodor, The Language of Thought

26. Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image

27. Feigl & Sellars, Readings in Philosophical Analysis

28. Frege, Collected Papers

29. Frege, Posthumous Writings

30. Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic

31. Frege, Basic Laws of Arithmetic

32. Geach, Logic Matters

33. Geach, Reference and Generality

34. Gettier, "Is Knowledge Justified True Belief?"

35. Goedel, Collected Works, 3 vols

36. Goodman, Problems and Projects

37. Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast

38. Grice, Studies in the Ways of Words

39. Hampshire S., Thought and Action

40. Hare, Freedom and Reason

41. Hare, The Language of Morals

42. Van Heijenoort (ed.), From Frege to Goedel

43. Hempel, The Logic of Scientific Investigation

44. Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation

45. Kripke, Naming and Necessity

46. Lewis, Counterfactuals

47. Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds

48. Lewis C.I., Mind and the World Order

49. MacIntyre, After Virtue

50. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism

51. Mackie, Ethics: Reinventing Right and Wrong

52. Malcolm, Knowledge and Certainty

53. Montague, Formal Philosophy

54. Moore, Principia Ethica

55. Moore, Selected Writings

56. Nagel E., The Structure of Science

57. Nagel T., The View from Nowhere

58. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia

59. Parfit, Reasons and Persons

60. Plantinga, Nature of Necessity

61. Prior , Papers in Logic and Ethics

62. Prior, Papers on Time and Tense

63. Putnam, Philosophical papers (3 volumes)

64. Quine, Theories and Things

65. Quine, Ways of Paradox

66. Quine, Word and Object

67. Quine, From a Logical Point of View

68. Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics & Other Essays

69. Rawls, A Theory of Justice

70. Reichenbach, The Philosophy of Space and Time

71. Rorty, The Linguistic Turn

72. Russell, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

73. Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

74. Russell, Logic and Knowledge

75. Russell, Mysticism and Logic

76. Russell, Principles of Mathematics

77. Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

78. Russell, Philosophical Essays

79. Ryle, Dilemmas

80. Ryle, The Concept of Mind

81. Searle, Speech Acts

82. Searle, Intentionality

83. Sellars W. F., Science, Perception, and Reality

84. Singer, Practical Ethics

85. Smart J.J.C., Philosophy and Scientific Realism

86. Smart & Williams, Utilitarianism - For and Against

87. Smart, Essays Metaphysical and Moral

88. Strawson P. F., Individuals

89. Tarski, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics

90. Whitehead & Rusell, Principia Mathematica

91. Wiggins, Sameness and Substance

92. Williams, Problems of the Self

93. Wisdom, Problems of Mind and Matter

94. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

95. Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

96. Wittgenstein, Tractatus

97. Wittgenstein, On Certainty

 

3. On the borders

• Feyerabend, Against Method

• Kuhn,  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• Lakatos, Collected Papers (2 vols)

• Lakatos, Proofs and Refutation

• Peirce, How to Make our Ideas Clear.

• Peirce, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities.

• Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

• Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

• Popper, 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

• 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. 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

• Ayer, Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

• 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

• Blackburn, Spreading the word

• 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

• Dennet D., The Intentional Stance

• Dennett, Elbow Room

• Devitt, Realism and Truth.

• Dretske F., Seeing and Knowing

• Dretske F., Knowledge and the Flow of Information

• Dummett, Elements of Intuitionism.

• Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics.

• Dummett M., 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, 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

• Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

• Laudan, Progress and its Problems

• Levi, I, Gambling With Truth

• Levi, I., The Enterprise of Knowledge

• Lewis, Collected Papers (2 vols.)

• Locke Don, Myself and Others

• Lycan, Mind and Cognition

• Mackie, Collected papers 2 vols.

• Mackie, The Cement of the Universe

• Ruth Marcus, Modalities

• 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, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays

• Quine, Roots of Reference

• Quine, Set Theory and Its Logic

• Reichenbach, Elements of Symbolic Logic

• Russell, Essays in Analysis

• 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

• Stevenson C., Ethics and Language

• 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, Zettel

• Ziff P., Semantic Analysis

6. Reviews
(authors are  usually not  acknowledged unless  they explicitly   state they wish to be)

1) "It depends on how hard you want to push 'analytic'. Do we include Locke
and Hume  and Kant?  Now  I'm  suffering  a  philosophical   and  historical
problem: just  what counts  as 'analytic'?  [...] a  collection of the best
books in  the analytic  *style* (as  opposed to  as movement) of philosophy
would also  include Mill's  Utilitarianism and  On Liberty,  something from
Hume and Locke and Aristotle and maybe some of the other ancients."

2) "You  don't have  enough Australian  Philosophy." [said   of  a  previous
version]

3) "Your  list is  excessively Oxonian.  Oxford heroes are not necessarilly
world heroes,  something Oxonians  tend to  forget." [said  of   a  previous
version]

4) "The biblio looks great, except that I think one less book by Dummett on
Frege would be a good idea."

5) "Your work are [sic] very good!"

6) "The list is looking good."

7) "To  decide matters  like this is rather difficult since one tends to be
partial"

8) "Thanks for your fine idea!" [about the title Patrologia Analitica]

9) "I  think your  list is  a little  light on  social philosophy" [said of
version n. 13].

10) "There will be lots of disputes about this list."

11) "There should be more phil of science among the classics"

11) I  find this  Top 100  list a  curious, if  fun, idea.   It is even more
curious in the execution. Included in the list of analytic philosophy books
are Wittgenstein's  *investigations*,  Rorty's  *Phil  and  the   Mirror  of
Nature*, Lewis's  *Mind and the World Order* and McIntyre's *After Virtue*.
We have Fodor and Frege appearing on one list. Ordinary language philosophy
sits cheek  by jowl  with work  in foundational epistemology. Late analytic
metaphysics snuggles coyly with logical empiricism. Strangest of all is the
current version's  understanding of  philosophy of science. Carnap, Hempel,
Reichenbach are represented (if sparsely). Then we skip to van Fraassen and
Laudan(!). Feyerabend,  Lakatos and  POPPER  (!!!)  are   relegated  to  the
borders. Kuhn  appears not  at all.  In essence, the enterprise confirms my
suspicion that  the notion  of analytic  philosophy helps  us not at all in
placing works  in their intellectual niches. All that unites these works is
an opposition (not always in the work themselves but in their reception) to
Continental  philosophy.   But  what   of  the    French   positivists   and
conventionalists, the scientific neo-Kantians, whether of transcendental or
psychophysical  persuasion,   the  early  phenomenologists,   etc.?  Clearly
Continental does  not mean  "from the  European continent"   -- with  Frege,
Carnap, Reichenbach,  Wittgenstein happily taking their places on the list.
I no  longer believe  that there  is *an* analytic tradition. [about one of
the first versions of the P.A.]

12)  An interesting list [about version 19]

 

7. Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all those who have contributed to the project:

Mark van Atten, Mark.vanAtten@phil.ruu.nl
David Chalmers, dave@twinearth.wustl.edu
Jonathan Berg, J.BERG@UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL
Christopher Bertram, C.Bertram@bristol.ac.uk
John Bishop, PHI_JCB@ccnov1.auckland.ac.n
Blackwell, diva@cix.compulink.co.uk
Kenneth Blackwell, blackwk@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
J.A.M. Bransen, Jan.Bransen@phil.ruu.nl
Andrew Brien, A.J.Brien@massey.ac.nz
Phil Brown, pb6755@csc.albany.edu
Keith Campbell, Keith.Campbell@philosophy.su.edu.au
Antoni Diller, A.R.Diller@cs.bham.ac.uk
Mark Fisher, MFISHER@hkucc.hku.hk
Peter Forrest, pforrest@metz.une.edu.au
Michelle Forster, mforster@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Andre Fuhrmann, Andre.Fuhrmann@uni-konstanz.de
Tim van Gelder, tvg@coombs.anu.edu.au
G.N. Georgacarakos, george@gac.edu
William Grey, wgrey@metz.une.edu.au            
A. Hale, adrian.hale@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Ken Hanly, HANLY@BrandonU.CA
John Havens, jhavens@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Ian Hinckfus, hinck@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
Leon Horsten, FWAAA10@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE
David Howlett, dhowlett@keene.edu
Frank Jackson, fcj@coombs.anu.edu.au
Anne Jaap Jacobson, Phil8@jetson.uh.edu
Tze-wan Kwan, B071767@axp400a.csc.cuhk.hk
David Lumsden, phil0075@waikato.ac.nz
Nollaig MacKenzie, GL250011@Orion.YorkU.CA
Hugh Miller, hugh.miller@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Jim Murdock, murdock@pollux.math.iastate.edu
Graham Oddie, G.J.Oddie@massey.ac.nz
Adriano P. Palma, palma@ds5500.cc.boun.edu.tr
Charles Pigden, cpigden@gandalf.otago.ac.nz
Alan Richardson ,richrdsn@helix.UCSD.EDU
Lawrence M. Sanger, lsanger@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Steve Savitt, savitt@unixg.UBC.CA
Cesar Schirmer dos Santos, CHIRMER@vortex.ufrgs.br
Alessandra Tanesini, sanat@cardiff.ac.uk
Michael A. Tissaw, tissaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
Rodrigo Vanegas, vanegas@shore.net
Stephen Voss, voss@TRBOUN.EARN
Gerben Wierda, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl