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GRADUATE READING LIST I Only the editions of works on this list are approved for use on the School of Philosophy’s Graduate Reading List Examinations. PRESOCRATICS
• Chapters 3–18 in Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary, 2nd ed. Edited and translated by Richard D. McKirahan. Hackett Publishing Company, 2010. ISBN: 9781603841825.
PLATO
• Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic, Timaeus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Parmenides, Seventh Letter in Complete Works. Edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN: 9780872203495.
ARISTOTLE
• Categories, On Interpretation, Posterior Analytics, On the Soul, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics in The Complete Works of Aristotle. The Revised Oxford Translation. Two Volumes. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Volume 1 ISBN: 9780691016504. Volume 2 ISBN: 9780691016511. Also acceptable:
– Same works in The Basic Works of Aristotle. Edited by Richard McKeon. Either (hardcover) New York: Random House, 1941. ISBN: 9780394416106 or (softcover) New York: Modern Library, 2001. ISBN: 9780375757990. EPICURUS
• Fragments and testimonia of Epicurus in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, 2nd ed. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780872203785. Pages. 3–102. LUCRETIUS
• De rerum natura, 2nd rev. ed. Translated by M.F. Smith & W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb-Harvard Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780674992009.
Also acceptable:
– On the Nature of Things. Translated with introduction by Martin Ferguson Smith. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2001. ISBN: 9780872205871.
SCEPTICS
• Sceptical texts and testimonia, pp. 261–397 in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, 2nd ed. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780872203785.
STOICS
• Stoic fragments and testimonia, pp. 103–260 in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, 2nd ed. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780872203785.
PLOTINUS
• Enneads 1.2 (19), 1.3 (20), 1.6 (1), 2.4 (12), 3.8 (30), 4.3 (27), 4.8 (6), 5.1 (10), 5.2 (11), 5.9 (5), 6.9 (9) in Plotinus. Translated by A. H. Armstrong. In Seven volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb-Harvard, 1966-1988. Also acceptable:
– The Essential Plotinus, 2nd ed. Translated by O’Brien. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1975. ISBN: 9780915144099. N.b., O’Brien does not contain Ennead 2.4, on matter, which is important. Students are asked to copy that text from the Armstrong.
AUGUSTINE
• Books X and XI of The Confessions of Augustine. Translated by John K. Ryan. New York: Image, 1960. ISBN: 9780385029551.
Also acceptable:
– The translation by Henry Chadwick. Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199537822.
• On Free Choice of the Will. Translated by A.S. Benjamin and L.H. Hackstoff. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. ISBN: 9780023080302.
Also acceptable:
– The translation by Thomas Williams, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993. ISBN: 9780872201880.
AVERROES
• The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection between Religion and Philosophy. Translated by G.F. Hourani. Chapter 25 In Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed. Edited by A. Hyman and J.J. Walsh. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2010. ISBN: 9781603842082.
Also acceptable:
– The same translation is found in the earlier 2nd ed. of Philosophy in the Middle Ages, pp. 297–316. Edited by A. Hyman and J.J. Walsh. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1983. ISBN: 0915145804.
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GRADUATE READING LIST II Only the editions of works on this list are approved for use on the School of Philosophy’s Graduate Reading List Examinations. AQUINAS
• Summa theologiae, I, qq. 1–3, and I-II, qq. 1–5 and qq. 90–97, 100. The standard English translation is St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. In 5 vols.
ISBN: 9780870610639. The required questions are in vols. 1 and 2. Also acceptable:
– The required questions in the translation by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province can be downloaded from www.newadvent.org/summa.
– I-II, qq. 1–5 in Treatise on Happiness. Translated by John A. Oesterle. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780268018498.
– I-II, qq. 90–97, 100 in Treatise on Law: The Complete Text. Translated by Alfred J. Freddoso. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781587318801.
• Aquinas: Selected Writings. Edited by Robert P. Goodwin. Library of Liberal Arts, 1965. ISBN: 9780023450501. • The Division and Methods of the Sciences, 4th ed. Translated by A. Maurer. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval
Studies, 1986. ISBN: 9780888442796. SCOTUS
• Philosophical Writings. Translated by Allan B. Wolter. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. ISBN: 9780872200180.
OCKHAM
• Philosophical Writings: A Selection, rev. 2nd ed. Introduced and translated by Philotheus Boehner. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1990. ISBN: 9780872200784.
MACHIAVELLI
• The Prince, 2nd ed. Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780226500447.
HOBBES
• Leviathan, rev. ed. Edited by Richard Tuck. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521567978. . Also acceptable:
– Leviathan. Edited by Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994. ISBN: 9780872201774. DESCARTES
• Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy in The Philosophical Writings. Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780521288071. Also acceptable:
– Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th ed. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780872204201.
SPINOZA
• Ethics in Ethics; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect; and Selected Letters, 2nd ed. Translated by Samuel Shirley. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780872201309.
LEIBNIZ
• New System of Nature, Specimen Dynamicum, Principles of Nature and Grace, Monadology in Philosophical Essays. Translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. ISBN: 9780872200623.
LOCKE
• Second Treatise of Government. Edited by C.B. Macpherson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980. ISBN: 9780915144860.
BERKELEY
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1982. ISBN: 9780915145393.
HUME
• A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780198751724.
Also acceptable
– A Treatise of Human Nature, 2nd ed. Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge & P. Nidditch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780198245889.
ROUSSEAU
• Second Discourse in Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Translated and Edited by Victor Gourevitch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-0521424455.
Also acceptable:
– Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780872201507.
– Second Discourse in First and Second Discourses. Edited by Roger D. Masters. New York: St. Martin's, 1969. ISBN: 9780312694401.
KANT
• Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge, 1998. ISBN: 9780521657297. • Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge, 1998. ISBN: 9780521626958. (9/2011)
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GRADUATE READING LIST III Only the editions of works on this list are approved for use on the School of Philosophy’s Graduate Reading List Examinations. HEGEL
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A.V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780198245971.
MILL
• Utilitarianism, 2nd ed. Edited by George Sher. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2001. ISBN: 9780872206052.
• On Liberty. Edited by Elizabeth Rapaport. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978. ISBN: 9780915144433. MARX
• The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, and Wage-Labour and Capital in Karl Marx: Selected Writings, 2nd ed. Edited by David McLellan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780198782650.
NIETZSCHE
• Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by Judith Norman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521779135.
HUSSERL
• Sixth Logical Investigation, Sections I and II (Chapters 1-8), in Logical Investigations. Translated by J.N. Findlay. New York: Routledge, 2001. Vol. I ISBN: 9780415241892; Vol. II ISBN: 9780415241908.
Also acceptable:
– Earlier editions of the same translation.
• Cartesian Meditations. Translated by Dorion Cairns. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 9789024700684.
HEIDEGGER
• Being and Time, rev. ed. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1962. ISBN: 9780060638504.
WITTGENSTEIN:
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Translated by C.K. Ogden. New York: Dover Publications, 1999. ISBN: 9780486404455.
• Philosophical Investigations, German text with an English translation by G. E. M. Anscombe, P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Revised 4th edition. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 9781405159289.
DEWEY
• Experience and Nature, rev. ed. New York: Dover, 2000. ISBN: 9780486204710. (9/2011)