Philosophy Reading List

Must-read for those interested in philosophy of science:

Science

  • The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory, David Deutsch
  • Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Imre Lakatos
  • The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science, Karl Popper
  • Who’s afraid of Nagelian reduction? Foad Dizadji-Bahmani, et al.
  • The Philosophy of Constructor Theory, David Deutsch

Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge)

  • Liability and Individualized Evidence, Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • The Reach of Explanations (The Beginning of Infinity - Chapter 1), David Deutsch
  • Belief, Credence, and Statistical Evidence, Davide Fassio & Joe Gao
  • Meditations on First Philosophy I & II, Descartes
  • The Nature of Mathematics (The Fabric of Reality - Chapter 10), David Deutsch

Mind and Metaphysics

  • 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
  • The Theory of Everything (The Fabric of Reality - Chapter 1), David Deutsch
  • Dimensions of Animal Consciousness, Jonathan Birch, et al.
  • The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language, Rudolph Carnap