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Reading Group Information

Graduate students (and faculty) in our department have been very active in organizing informal reading groups, as additional occasions for philosophical discussion. Here is a list of books that have been read in such groups during the past five years:

  • G.E.M. Anscombe, Intention
  • Norm Arpaly, Unprincipled Virtue
  • Lawrence Bonjour, In Defense of Pure Reason
  • Robert Brandom, Articulating Reasons
  • Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit
  • Taylor Carman, Heidegger’s Analytic
  • Stephen Darwall,The Second Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability
  • Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
  • Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
  • Newton Garver, This Complicated Form of Life
  • Alvin Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition
  • Alvin Goldman, Knowledge in a Social World
  • A. C. Grayling, Introduction to Philosophic Logic
  • Susan Haack, Evidence and Inquiry
  • Jürgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Rationality
  • Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
  • Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul
  • G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
  • G.W.F. Hegel, Logic
  • Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
  • Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
  • Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
  • Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
  • Christine Korsgaard, Self-Constitution, Agency, Identity, and Integrity
  • Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
  • Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
  • Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
  • Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals
  • Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
  • John McDowell, Mind and World
  • Antonio Negri, Empire
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
  • Susan Moller Okin, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women
  • Alvin Plantinga, Warrant: The Current Debate
  • Alvin Plantinga, Warrant and Proper Function
  • Hilary Putnam, Renewing Philosophy
  • William Ramsay, ed., Rethinking Intuition
  • Tim Scanlon, What We Owe Each Other
  • Hugh Schwyzer, The Unity of Understanding
  • John Searle, Construction of Social Reality
  • Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
  • Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, ed., Causation
  • David Stern, Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction
  • Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
  • Edward Wierenga, The Nature of God
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Brown Book
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel
  • In addition, groups have met regularly to read assorted essays on the following topics:

  • Deleuze
  • God and Freedom
  • Philosophy of Feminism (Articles by Luce Irigaray, Nell Noddings, Martha Nussbaum, and others)
  • Philosophy and Literature (Dostoevsky, Borges, Voltaire)
  • Sartre
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