Selected List of Readings in Analytic Philosophy

• Audi, Robert, The Structure of Justification
• Austin, J.L., "A Plea for Excuses", Philosophical Papers
• ----------, "Performative Utterances", Philosophical Papers
• ----------, How to Do Things with Words
• ----------, Sense and Sensibilia
• Ayer, A.J., Language, Truth and Logic
• ----------, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
• ----------, The Problem of Knowledge
• ----------, ed., Logical Positivism (especially the Introduction)
• ----------, Philosophical Essays
• Baillie, James, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
• Black, Max, "The Semantic Definition of Truth", Analysis, 1948
• ----------, "The Gap Between 'Is' and 'Should'", Margins of Precision
• Boghossian, Paul, Fear of Knowledge
• BonJour, Laurence, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
• Broad, C.D., "Some of the Main Problems of Ethics", Philosophy, Vol. 21
• Carnap, Rudolf, "Testability and Meaning", Philosophy of Science, Vols. 3 & 4
• ----------, "On Inductive Logic", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 12
• ----------, "The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis Of Language", in Ayer, Logical Positivism
• Charlesworth, M.J., Philosophy and Linguistic Analysis
• Chisholm, Roderick, The Foundations of Knowing
• ----------, Perceiving: A Philosophical Study
• ----------, "The Contrary-to-Fact Conditional", Mind, Vol. 55
• Churchland, Paul, Matter and Consciousness
• Davidson, Donald, "Actions, Reasons and Causes", Journal of Philosophy, 60
• ----------, Essays on Actions and Events
• ----------, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
• Davidson & Harman, eds., Semantics of Natural Language
• Dennett, Daniel C., Brainstorms
• ----------, Consciousness Explained
• ----------, Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• Dummett, Michael, Truth and Other Enigmas
• ----------, Origins of Analytical Philosophy
• ----------, The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy
• Elgin, Catherine Z., With Reference to Reference
• Frankena, W., "The Naturalistic Fallacy", Mind, Vol. 48
• Frege, Gottlob, "On Sense and Nominatum", Readings in Philosophical Analysis, edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars
• ----------, The Foundations of Arithmetic
• Gettier, Edmund L., "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
• Glymour, Clark, Thinking Things Through
• Goodman, M.F. & R..A. Snyder, eds., Contemporary Readings in Epistemology
• Goodman, Nelson, Fact, Fiction and Forecast
• ----------, The Structure of Appearance
• ----------, Ways of Worldmaking
• ----------, "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals", J. of Phl, V. 44
• Gorovitz, Samuel, et.al., Philosophical Analysis
• Grayling, A.C., An Introduction to Philosophical Logic
• Hacking, Ian, The Social Construction of What?
• ----------, Representing and Intervening
• Hanson, Norwood Russell, Patterns of Discovery
• ----------, Perception and Discovery
• Hare, R.M., The Language of Morals
• ----------, Freedom and Reason
• ----------, Moral Thinking
• ----------, Essays in Ethical Theory
• Harman, Gilbert, Thought
• ----------, Change in View: Principles of Reasoning
• Hempel, Carl G., "Empiricist Criterion of Meaning", in Ayer Logical Positivism
• ----------, "The Logical Positivist's Theory of Truth", Analysis, 1935
• Hospers, John, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
• Iseminger, Gary, editor, Logic & Philosophy: Selected Readings
• Kaplan, A., "Are Ethical Judgments Assertions?", Philosophical Review, Vol. 51
• Kirkham, Richard L., Theories of Truth
• Kitcher, Philip, Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
• ----------, Vaulting Ambition
• ----------, The Advancement of Science
• Kripke, Saul, Naming and Necessity
• Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Lakatos, Imre, "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes"
• Lehrer, Keith, Knowledge
• ----------, Theory of Knowledge
• Lewis, C.I., An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation
• ----------, Mind and the World Order
• ----------, "Some Logical Considerations Concerning the Mental", Collected Papers of C.I. Lewis
• ----------, "The Empirical Basis of Value Judgments", Collected Papers of CIL
• ----------, "A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori", Collected Papers of CIL
• ----------, "The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge", Collected Papers of CIL
• Linsky, Leonard, editor, Semantics and the Philosophy of Language
• Malcolm, Norman, "The Verification Argument", Philosophic Analysis, M. Black ed
• ----------, "Certainty and Empirical Statements", Mind, Vol. 51
• ----------, Knowledge and Certainty
• Moore, G.E., Principia Ethica
• ----------, "A Defense of Common Sense", Philosophical Papers
• ----------, "Proof of an External World", Philosophical Papers
• ----------, "Refutation of Idealism", Philosophical Studies
• ----------, "Russell's Theory of Descriptions", Philosophical Papers
• Munitz, Milton K., Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
• Neurath, Otto, "Protocal Sentences", in Ayer, Logical Positivism
• Nozick, Robert, Philosophical Explanations
• ----------, Anarchy, State & Utopia
• Ogden, C.K., & I.A. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning
• Prior, Elizabeth, Dispositions
• Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge
• ----------, Conjectures and Refutations
• ----------, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• Putnam, Hilary, Many Faces of Realism
• ----------, "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2
• Quine, W.V., "On What There Is", From a Logical Point of View
• ----------, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", From a Logical Point of View
• ----------, "Truth by Convention", The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays
• ----------, "Epistemology Naturalized", in Goodman & Snyder
• ----------, Word and Object
• ----------, The Roots of Reference
• Ramsey, Frank D., "Philosophy", in Ayer, Logical Positivism
• Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice
• ----------, Political Liberalism
• Russell, Bertrand, "On Denoting", Logic and Knowledge
• ----------, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism", Logic and Knowledge
• ----------, "Mr. Strawson on Referring", My Philosophical Development
• ----------, Our Knowledge of the External World
• ----------, "Logic as the Essence of Philosophy", in Our Knowledge...
• ----------, "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description", in Mysticism and Logic
• ----------, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
• Ryle, Gilbert, "Philosophical Arguments", in Ayer, Logical Positivism
• ----------, The Concept of Mind
• Salmon, Wesley, Causality and Explanation
• ----------, The Foundations of Scientific Inference
• ----------, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
• Schlick, Moritz, "The Foundation of Knowledge", in Ayer, Logical Positivism
• ----------, "The Future of Philosophy", in College of the Pacific Publications in Philosophy, Vol. 1
• Searle, John, Speech Acts
• ----------, Intentionality
• ----------, Minds, Brains & Science
• Stace, W.T., "The Refutation of Realism", Mind, Vol 53
• Stalnaker, Robert C., Inquiry
• Stevenson, C.L., "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms", Mind, Vol. 46
• ----------, Ethics and Language
• Strawson, P.F., "On Referring", Mind, Vol. LIX, No. 235
• ----------, Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
• Suppe, Frederick, ed, The Structure of Scientific Theories
• Tarski, Alfred, "The Semantic Conception of Truth", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. IV, 1944.
• Thomson, Judith Jarvis, The Realm of Rights
• ----------, "A Defense of Abortion", Rights, Restitution & Risk, by J.J. Thomson
• ----------, The Trolley Problem", Rights, Restitution & Risk
• Urmson, J.O., Philosophical Analysis
• ----------, "Are Necessary Truths True by Convention?", Aristotelian Society Supplement, Vol. 21
• Wang, Hao, Beyond Analytic Philosophy
• Wisdom, John, "Other Minds", Mind, Vols. 49-52
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• ----------, Philosophical Investigations
• ----------, The Blue and The Brown Books
• ----------, "Logical Form", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1929

* * * * * Selected Logic Books:

• Aristotle, Prior Analytics
• Copi, Irving M., Symbolic Logic
• ----------, & C. Cohen, Introduction to Logic
• Haack, Susan, Philosophy of Logics
• Forbes, Graeme, Modern Logic
• Hunter, Geoffrey, Metalogic
• Hurley, Patrick, A Concise Introduction to Logic
• Jeffrey, Richard, Formal Logic: Its Scope & Limit
• Joseph, H.W.B., An Introduction to Logic
• Kahane, Howard, Logic and Philosophy
• Konyndyk, Kenneth, Introductory Modal Logic
• Kneale, William & Martha, The Development of Logic
• C. Stephen Layman, The Power of Logic
• Massey, Gerald, Understanding Symbolic Logic
• Mates, Benson, Elementary Logic (The best of the lot.)
• Nolt, John, Logics
• Pospesel, Howard, Predicate Logic
• Quine, W.V., Methods of Logic
• ----------, Philosophy of Logic
• Salmon, Wesley, Logic.