Book Club

Hello! We’re casual readers, generally but not exclusively focused on philosophical texts. We (attempt to) discuss every Saturday at 3pm BST/10am ET on Discord. We are very international, with people tuning in from across the US, UK, and India. We are also newcomer-friendly; if you are interested in joining, please reach out for the Discord link.

Next session: TBA, books 3—5 of Plato’s Republic

Reading List

Texts are picked on a per-session rolling basis, but we prefer to read ‘modules’ of related texts back-to-back for continuity.

The Greeks

• Euthyphro, Plato
• Apology, Plato
• Crito, Plato
• Phaedo, Plato
• Republic, Plato
• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
• Posterior Analytics, Aristotle
• The Enneads, Plotinus

Let’s Be Unreasonable

• The Kekulé Problem, Cormac McCarthy
• The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges
• Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
• Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
• On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy of Science

• The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
• Against Method, Paul Feyerabend

The Scholastics

More to be added.

• Aquinas: Basic Works, Jeffrey Hause

Descartes to Deleuze

• Meditations, René Descartes
• Ethics, Baruch Spinoza
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant
• Philosophy and Truth, Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche
• Practical Philosophy, Giles Deleuze
• Nietzsche and Philosophy, Giles Deleuze
• Expressionism in Philosophy, Giles Deleuze
• The Logic of Sense, Giles Deleuze

Existentialism

• Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Søren Kierkegaard
• The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
• Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being and Time, Martin Heidegger

Ethics and Moral Philosophy

• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Jeremy Bentham
• Utilitarianism, J.S. Mill
• Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant
• After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre
• Animal Liberation, Peter Singer

Post-structuralism, Postmodernism, and the Linguistic Turn

• Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews, Michel Foucault
• The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Simulations, Jean Baudrillard

Political Philosophy

• Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
• Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy of Mind

• Philosophy of Mind, John Heil
• Mind and Emergence, Philip Clayton