A Collection of Links to Philosophy Reading Recommendations

This page contains a collection of philosophy book recommendations primarily sourced from the r/askphilosophy subreddit. Along with the collection of 500+ philosophy course syllabi, these recommendations were used to create a central resource for philosophy book recommendations. Each link on this page will take you to a thread discussing introductory readings on one of the topics listed below. Following these links should help you find reading recommendations on a wide range of philosophical topics.

Table of Contents

Topics

Introduction to Philosophy

Epistemology

Introduction to Epistemology

Disagreement

Memory

Perception

Skepticism

Testimony

Truth

Ethics

Introduction to Ethics

Animal Ethics

Applied Ethics

Bioethics

Consequentialism

Deontological Ethics

Effective Altruism

Egoism

Environmental Ethics

Friendship

Happiness

Hedonism

Philosophy of Love

The Meaning of Life

Metaethics

Moral Psychology

Moral Relativism

Utilitarianism

Virtue Ethics

Well-Being

Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics

Consciousness

Causation

Death

Free Will

Personal Identity

Time

Political Philosophy

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Anarchism

Colonialism

Conservatism

Critical Theory

Democracy

Equality

Free Speech

Freedom

Justice

Liberalism

Libertarianism

Marxism

Punishment

Human Rights

Socialism

War

Regions

African Philosophy

Chinese Philosophy

Indian Philosophy

Islamic Philosophy

Japanese Philosophy

Other Topics

Analytic Philosophy

Art

Philosophy of Biology

Buddhism

Philosophy for Children

Confucianism

Continental Philosophy

Critical Thinking

Daoism

Decision Theory

Philosophy of Economics

Philosophy of Education

Philosophy of Emotion

Philosophy and the Enlightenment

Existentialism

Feminist Philosophy

Philosophy of Film

Philosophy of Gender

Philosophy of History

History of Philosophy

Philosophy of Human Nature

Philosophy of Humour

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Law

LGBTQ Philosophy

Logic

Philosophy of Mathematics

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Music

Phenomenology

Philosophy of Physics

Postmodernism

Pragmatism

Philosophy of Psychology

Philosophy of Race

Philosophy of Religion

Rhetoric

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Technology

Philosophers:

Ancient Greek Philosophy

Pre-Socratics

Socrates

Plato

Diogenes/Cynicism

Aristotle

Epicurus

The Stoics

Cicero

Plotinus

St Augustine

Avicenna

St Aquinas

Medieval Philosophy

Machiavelli

Montaigne

Descartes

Spinoza

Locke

Leibniz

Hume

Rousseau

Kant

Hegel

Schopenhauer

Kierkegaard

Marx

Nietzsche

Frege

Freud

Dewey

Russell

Wittgenstein

Husserl

Heidegger

Lacan

Adorno

Popper

Sartre

Beauvoir

Camus

Arendt

Rawls

Foucault

Deleuze

Derrida

Habermas