| Pre-Socratic 600BC |
- Thales
- Pythagoras
- Parmenides
- Zeno
- Heraclitus
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- W. Kaufmann, Ancient Philosophy Volume 1
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- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. I
- F. Nietzsche, The Tragic Age of the Greeks
- W. Jaeger, The Greek Paideia Vol. I&II
- J.P. Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought
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| Socratic 400BC |
- Plato, Apology; Republic; Symposium; Meno; Theatetes
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics; Metaphysics
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- Dialogues of Plato (Trans.) E.M. Conrnford
- Philosopical Classsics Vol. I Kaufmann & Baird (ED)
- Philosophical Classics From Plato To Nietzsche Kaufmann & Baird (ED)
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- A.E. Taylor, Socrates: The Man And His Thought
- E. Havelock, Preface to Plato
- E. Voegelin, Plato
- W. D. Ross, Aristotle
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. I
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| Hellenistic & Roman 300BC-300CE |
- Epicurus
- Zeno
- Epictetus
- Lucretius
- Marcus Aurelius
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- Philosopical Classsics Vol. I Kaufmann & Baird (ED)
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- A.E. Taylor, Socrates: The Man And His Thought
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. I
- E.V. Arnold, Roman Stoicism
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| Medieval 500CE-1300CE |
- St. Augustine
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- John Duns Scotus
- William of Ocham
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- Philosopical Classsics Vol. II Kaufmann & Baird (ED)
- H. Shapiro, Medieval Philosophy
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- W. Jaeger, Early Christianity and the Greek Paideia
- E. Gilson, The Christian Philosophy of St. Augustine
- F. Copleston, Aquinas
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. II
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| Modern 1600CE-1800CE |
- Descartes, Meditations
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Spinoza, The Ethics
- Leibniz, The Monadology
- Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Berkeley, Three Dialogues
- Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
- Philosophical Classics From Plato To Nietzsche Kaufmann & Baird (ED)
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- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. IV,V,&VI
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| Enlightenment 1750CE |
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
- Voltaire, Treatise on Metaphysics
- Montesquieu, Spirit of the Law
- Kant, What is Enlightenment?
- Hume, Essay on Natural Religion
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- E. Cassirer, The Philosophers of the Enlightenment
- M. Foucault, What is Enlightenment?
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. VI
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| Romantic 1800CE |
- Herder, Ideas
- Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man
- Schelling, System of Transcendental Philosophy
- Hegel, Philosophy of History
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- I. Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. VII
- A.O. Lovejoy, The Meaning of Romanticism
- C. Taylor, Hegel
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| Post-Romantic 1850CE-1900CE |
- S. Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling; Concluding Unscientific Postcript
- A. Schopenhauer, The World as Will; Representation
- F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil; Zarathustra
- J.S. Mill, System of Logic; On Liberty; Utilitarianism
- W. James, The Will to Believe; A Pluralistic Universe
- C.S. Peirce, Collected Papers
- J. Dewey, Experience and Nature
- A.N. Whitehead, Process and Reality; Adventure of Ideas
- H. Bergson, Creative Evolution
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- W. Barrett, Irrational Man
- W. Lowrie, Kierkegaard
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. VII
- W. Kaufmann, Nietzsche
- J. Smith, The Spirit of American Philosophy
- V. Lowe, Understanding Whitehead
- I. Stengers, Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts
- G. Deleuze, Bergsonism
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| Contemporary 1900CE-1970CE |
- B. Russell, Principle of Mathematics; Intro to Mathematical Philosophy
- L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus; Philosophical Investigations
- E. Husserl, Logical Investigations; Ideas
- M. Heidegger, Being and Time; What is Metaphysics; Poetry, Language and Thought
- H.G. Gadamer, Truth and Method
- John Austin, How to do Things with Words
- J. Ryle, The Concept of Mind
- W.V. Quine, From a Logical Point of View
- H. Dreyfus, Mind over Machine
- J. Searle, Expression and Meaning
- D. Davidson, Truth and Meaning
- N. Chomsky, Language and The Problem of Knowledge
- D. Lewis, Language Mind and Knowledge
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- R. Rucker, Philosophy of Mathematics
- F. Copleston, History of Philosophy Vol. VIII
- C.A. Van Peursen, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy
- J. Hartnack, Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy
- J.M. Edie, An Invitation to Phenomenology
- M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Ch. 1
- O. Poggler, M. Heidegger's Path of Thinking
- W. Blattner, Heidegger's Being and Time
- D.C. Hoy, The Critical Circle (Hermeneutics)
- A.P. Martinich, The Philosophy of Language
- T. Schick Jr., Readings in Philosophy of Science
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| PostModern 1970CE-Present |
- H. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
- M. Foucault, Madness and Civilization; Discipline and Punish; Society must be Defended
- J. Derrida, Writing and Difference; Structure; Sign and Play
- J.F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
- R. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency; Irony and Solidarity
- G. Vattimo, The End of Modernity
- J. Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action
- G. Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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- S. Buck-Morse, The Dialectic of Seeing
- H. Dreyfus, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
- D.C. Hoy, (ED.) Foucault a Critical Reader
- C. Norris, What is Deconstruction?; Derrida
- F. Jameson, Postmodernism
- D. Hall, Richard Rorty
- D. Ingrum, Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
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| Women in Philosophy |
- Simone Beauvoir, The Second Sex
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition; Between Past and Future
- Edith Stein, System of Transcendental Philosophy
- Anna Tymieniecka, Phenomenology of Science
- Julia Kristeva, Language, The Unkown: An Invitation into Linguistics
- Luce Irigaray, the Speculum of the Other Woman; The Sex which is not one
- Susan Bordo, the Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
- Sandra Harding, the Science Question in Feminism
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| Religion East & West |
- D.T. Suzuki, Zen
- H. Fingarette, The Secular and the Sacred
- R. Otto, The Idea of the Holy
- Mercea Eliade, Journey East; Journey West; The Sacred and the Profane
- H. Zimmerman, Philosophies of India
- D. Pals, Eight Themes of Religion
- P. Sigmund, St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics
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| Philosophy of Science |
- T. Duhem, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
- K. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- P. Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge
- I. Lakatos, The Problem in Philosophy of Science
- W. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
- T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- J. Monod, Chance and Necessity
- L. Infeld, Albert Einstein
- R. Omnes Quantum Philosophy
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