Philosophy Reading List

Must-reads for those interested in the philosophy of science

Science

• The Logic of Experimental Tests, David Deutsch

• Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Imre Lakatos

• The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science, Karl Popper

• The Philosophy of Constructor Theory, David Deutsch

Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge)

• The Reach of Explanations, David Deutsch

• Liability and Individualized Evidence, Judith Jarvis Thomson

• Meditations on First Philosophy I & II, Rene Descartes

• The Nature of Mathematics (The Fabric of Reality - Chapter 10), David Deutsch

Mind and Metaphysics

• The Theory of Everything (The Fabric of Reality - Chapter 1), David Deutsch

• Dimensions of Animal Consciousness, Jonathan Birch

• The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language, Rudolph Carnap

• Remarks upon Mr. Arnauld’s letter in regard to my statement that the individual concept of each person involves, once for all, all that will ever happen to him, Gottfried Leibniz