Top 100 Non-Fiction Books on Philosophy

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• Top 100 Non-Fiction Books on Philosophy
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  • Top 100 List
  • By Time period
    • Ancient Philosophy
    • Medieval Philosophy
    • Modern Philosophy
    • 19th Century Philosophy
    • 20th Century Philosophy
    • Contemporary Philosophy
      • Philosophy of Mind and Language
      • Ethics and Political Philosophy
      • Metaphysics and Epistemology
      • Philosophy of Science
      • Aesthetics
      • Social and Political Philosophy

Top 100 List

By Time period

Ancient Philosophy

1. Plato - "The Republic"
2. Aristotle - "Nicomachean Ethics"
3. Aristotle - "Metaphysics"
4. Marcus Aurelius - "Meditations"
5. Epictetus - "The Enchiridion"

Medieval Philosophy

1. Thomas Aquinas - "Summa Theologica"
2. Augustine of Hippo - "Confessions"
3. Al-Farabi - "The Book of Letters"

Modern Philosophy

1. René Descartes - "Meditations on First Philosophy"
2. Baruch Spinoza - "Ethics"
3. Immanuel Kant - "Critique of Pure Reason"
4. Immanuel Kant - "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"
5. John Locke - "Second Treatise of Government"
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "The Social Contract"
7. David Hume - "A Treatise of Human Nature"

19th Century Philosophy

1. Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto"
2. Karl Marx - "Capital"
3. Friedrich Nietzsche - "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
4. Friedrich Nietzsche - "Beyond Good and Evil"
5. Søren Kierkegaard - "Fear and Trembling"

20th Century Philosophy

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Philosophical Investigations"
3. Martin Heidegger - "Being and Time"
4. Jean-Paul Sartre - "Being and Nothingness"
5. Simone de Beauvoir - "The Second Sex"

Contemporary Philosophy

1. Derek Parfit - "Reasons and Persons"
2. Judith Butler - "Gender Trouble"
3. Noam Chomsky - "Manufacturing Consent"
4. Daniel Dennett - "Consciousness Explained"
5. Martha Nussbaum - "The Fragility of Goodness"
6. Michel Foucault - "The History of Sexuality"
7. Elizabeth Anderson - "The Imperative of Integration"
8. Peter Singer - "Animal Liberation"
9. Robert Nozick - "Anarchy, State, and Utopia"
10. Amartya Sen - "Development as Freedom"
11. Saul Kripke - "Naming and Necessity"
12. Patricia Churchland - "Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality"
13. Hilary Putnam - "Reason, Truth, and History"
14. Cornel West - "Race Matters"
15. Kwame Anthony Appiah - "The Ethics of Identity"

Philosophy of Mind and Language

1. Daniel Dennett - "Darwin's Dangerous Idea"
2. John Searle - "Speech Acts"
3. David Chalmers - "The Conscious Mind"
4. Jerry Fodor - "The Modularity of Mind"
5. Paul Grice - "Studies in the Way of Words"

Ethics and Political Philosophy

1. Michael Sandel - "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?"
2. Charles Mills - "The Racial Contract"
3. Nancy Fraser - "Fortunes of Feminism"
4. Alain Badiou - "Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil"
5. Martha Nussbaum - "Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership"

Metaphysics and Epistemology

1. David Lewis - "On the Plurality of Worlds"
2. Saul Kripke - "Philosophical Troubles"
3. Timothy Williamson - "Knowledge and its Limits"
4. Ernest Sosa - "A Virtue Epistemology"
5. Quentin Meillassoux - "After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency"

Philosophy of Science

1. Thomas Kuhn - "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
2. Karl Popper - "The Logic of Scientific Discovery"
3. Paul Feyerabend - "Against Method"
4. Nancy Cartwright - "How the Laws of Physics Lie"
5. Bas van Fraassen - "The Scientific Image"

Aesthetics

1. Arthur Danto - "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace"
2. Nelson Goodman - "Languages of Art"
3. Richard Wollheim - "Art and its Objects"
4. Cynthia Freeland - "But Is It Art?"
5. Noël Carroll - "Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction"

Social and Political Philosophy

1. Iris Marion Young - "Justice and the Politics of Difference"
2. Axel Honneth - "The Struggle for Recognition"
3. Chantal Mouffe - "The Democratic Paradox"
4. Michael Walzer - "Spheres of Justice"
5. Judith Butler - "Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?"

This list encompasses a broad spectrum of philosophical thought, including works that have sparked debates, introduced new conceptual frameworks, and contributed to the ongoing evolution of philosophy across various domains.