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Hello and welcome to the Philosophy, religious studies and theology forum.


Do you enjoy philosophy?
How much experience have you had with the subject?
What got you interested in the subject to start with?
Do you have any tips for future philosophy applicants or students?


>>>Click here to read all about what to expect from a philosophy degree.<<<
See the next post for a comprehensive philosophy reading list. Post below if you have any queries or suggestions!
Also quick note, see this other forum for anything related to PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics).
Some advice
Don't feel as though you have to read these before your course starts...
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Each list is order alphabetically by author surname.


Introductory
The Pig that Wants to be Eaten - Julian Baggini
Think - Simon Blackburn
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
Philosophy in practice - Adam Morton
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Philosophy: the Basics - Nigel Warburton
The spirit level - Richard Wilkinson
Very Short Introduction books (available for loads of different philosophical interests)
Core texts
Nichomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Meditations - Rene Descartes
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Treatise on Human nature- David Hume
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
The Republic - Plato
Art of War
The Prince
Logic
Languages of Logic - Samuel Guttenplan
Logic - Wilfred Hodges
Ethics
Being good - Simon Blackburn
Practical Ethics - Peter Singer
Mathematics
Thinking About Mathematics - Shapiro (a completely readable introduction to the philosophy of mathematics)
Politics
An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Jonathan Wolff
Miscellaneous
Language Truth and Logic - Ayer
The Language of Morals - Hare
Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. Hegel
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - Hume
Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
Toleration & Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Locke
What does it all mean? - Thomas Nagel
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
The Genealogy of Morality - Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche (don't start with this one until you're more familiar with Nietzsche)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Logic of Scientific Discovery - Popper
History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Social Contract & Inequality - Jean Jaque Rousseau
Existentialism and Humanism - John-Paul Sartre
World as Will and Representation - Schopenhauer
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Great free philosophy resources
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Like Wikipedia, but written by experts in all fields of philosophy to an academically rigorous standard.)
PhilosophyBro.com
Wikibooks, introduction to Philosophy
Rust Belt Philosophy (The author takes current writing and disassembles the bad reasoning and argument that comes out of the pens of so many modern-day commenters.) ning and argument that comes out of the pens of so many modern-day commenters.)
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Was wondering when you'd rock up.
Anything in this guide you think needs adding or changing?



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