Analytic’s bibliography consists of three lists of books. The first is a short selection of introductory material including histories, textbooks, and anthologies of influential essays. Any few of these can serve as a first step introduction to the very extensive literature. The second list is a selection of reference books, resembling either dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books will aid beginners and initiates alike. The third list is a selection of the most influential books in analytic philosophy. With few exceptions, these are mostly difficult primary sources recommended primarily for the more experienced reader of philosophy. And yet, they must be read eventually since most discussions center on their contributions. The first and second list was compiled by myself, and the third by Luciano Floridi, with the help of internet philosophers everywhere. I welcome any suggestions and feedback

I have deleted the links in the following:

This page is also an internet bookstore. Clicking on the author’s name of any book will lead to the book’s page in the Amazon bookstore from which you can buy the book. Note that in many cases although several editions of a particular book are available, the link points only to one of them. In each such case I tried to give preference to the least expensive and most recent edition still in print. In some other cases, every edition is out of print, in which case one can order an out-of-print search, also through Amazon

INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL

Ayer, A. J., Philososphy in the Twentieth Century

Ammerman, Robert R. [ed.], Classics of Analytic Philosophy

Blackburn, Simon, Spreading the Word

Feigl, Herbert and Sellars, Willard [eds.], Readings in Philophical Analysis

Hospers, John, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis

Martinich, A. P. [ed.], The Philosophy of Language

Moore, A. W., Meaning and Reference

Rorty, Richard M. [ed.], The Linguistic Turn

Rosenberg, Jay, The Practice of Philosophy

Rosenthal, David M. [ed.], The Nature of Mind

Russell, Bertrand, The Problems of Philosophy

Scruton, Roger, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

Sparkes, A.W., Talking philosophy: a wordbook

Strawson, P.F., Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy

White, Morton Gabriel [ed.], The Age of Analysis

REFERENCE

Audi, Robert [ed.], The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

Blackburn, Simon, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

Honderich, Ted [ed.], The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

Bunnin, Nicholas and Tsui-James, E. P. [eds.], The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

Singer, Peter [ed.], A Companion to Ethics

Cooper, David [ed.], A Companion to Aesthetics

Kim, Jaegwon and Sosa, Ernest [eds.], A Companion to Metaphysics

Guttenplan, Samuel [ed.], A Companion to Philosophy of Mind

Hale, Bob and Wright, Crispin [eds.], A Companion to Philosophy of Language

Newton-Smith, Bill [ed.], A Companion to Philosophy of Science

PRIMARY SOURCES

Draft N. 20.rv: 19 Sept 1998

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

INTRODUCTION: NATURE OF THE PROJECT

The present project aims at compiling a student bibliography of at least 100 essential readings in the field of Analytic Philosophy Originally, it was meant to be an actual buying list for a library. As an electronic bibliography, it is constantly under revision so I hope that you may find a minute to send me a few suggestions and forward this file to other colleagues. Name of the author/editor and approximate title will be already sufficient. A reading list that you may have in your files will be welcome. Books may include *classics*, *studies on the history of the movement* or *secondary literature* that you have found particularly useful when teaching undergraduates

CLASSICS: THE 100 BEST BOOKS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

1] Alexander S. Space, Time and Deity

2] Analytic Philosophy 2 series, Oxford 1962-65

3] Anscombe,v2 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 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,v2,v3 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 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,v2,v3 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

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ON THE BORDERS: CLASSICS CONNECTED TO THE ANALYTIC TRADITION

Feyerabend Against Method

Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Lakatos,v2 Collected Papers [2 vols]

Lakatos Proofs and Refutations

Peirce How to Make our Ideas Clear

Peirce Some Consequences of Four Incapacities

Popper Conjectures and Refutations

Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Popper,v2 The Open Society and Its Enemies

Popper Unended Quest

Rorty Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Whitehead Process and Reality

ON THE MOVEMENT: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

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

TOOLS: DIDACTIC INSTRUMENTS

Boolos & Jeffrey Computability and Logic

Dancy Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

Haack Philosophy of Logics

Hughes & Cresswell A New Introduction to Modal Logic

Jeffrey The Logic of Decision

Nagel and Newman Goedel’s Proof

Pollock Technical Methods in Philosophy

Quine Mathematical Logic

Quine Methods of Logic

Singer A Companion to Ethics

Smith & Jones The Philosophy of Mind

REVIEWS: SHORT COMMENTS ABOUT THE PATROLOGIA ANALYTICA

[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.]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: LIST OF THE CONTRIBUTORS

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

Cesar Schirmer dos Santos CHIRMER@vortex.ufrgs.br

Steve Savitt savitt@unixg.UBC.CA

Alessandra Tanesini senat@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

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