Reading List

Short reading list for prospective and future undergraduate students

Lecturers and tutors will make many suggestions about books which you will find it helpful or necessary to read. Some of them you will need to buy. We're printing this selected short list here so that you can, if you wish, make a start on some reading in advance of the lectures. 

GENERAL

• Nigel Warburton, Philosophy - The Basics (Routledge) 
• John Cottingham, Rationalism (Paladin pb), The Rationalists (OUP) 
• Martin Hollis, Invitation to Philosophy (Blackwell pb) 
• John Hospers, Introduction to Philosophical Analysis 
• Roger Woolhouse, The Empiricists (OUP) 
• Adam Morton, Philosophy in Practice (Blackwell) 

PHIL 10005 / 10006

• Descartes, Meditations 
• Russell, The Problems of Philosophy 
• Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Treatise of Human Nature 
• M. Devitt & K. Sterelny, Language and Reality 
• MacIntyre, A. A Short History of Ethics 
• J. S. Mill, On Liberty 
• W. van O. Quine & J. J. Ullian, The Web of Belief (Random House, pb) 

PHIL 10003

• Plato, Apology, Gorgias, Phaedo 

PHIL 10007

• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; either of the following translations:
  - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, translated by David Ross, revised
  by J. L. Ackrill and J. O. Urmson. (OUP, 1998) (in the 'Oxford World's
  Classics' series)
  - S. Broadie and C. Rowe, Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (OUP, 2002).
  [this book also includes a valuable introduction and commentary]

PHIL 10008

• Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding