Postgraduate Reading List

MA Philosophy

Preliminary Readings

For those starting their MA Degree with no prior philosophy in their first degree:

J. Perry, M. Bratman & J. Martin Fischer (eds), Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, with selections from the Objections and Replies, trans. John Cottingham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

N. Lemos, An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

A. Kenny, An illustrated brief history of Western Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell 2006).

For those starting their MA Degree with a first degree in philosophy:

J. Heil, Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1998).

W.J. Lycan, Philosophy of Language (London: Routledge, 1999).

B. Williams, Ethics and the limits of philosophy  (London: Routledge, 2006).

B. Davies, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

R. Norman, The Moral Philosophers, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

A.J. Simmonds, Moral Principles and Political Obligations (Princeton University Press, 1980).

M.J. Loux, Metaphysics, a contemporary introduction (London: Routledge, 2002).