Graduate Reading List
List I List II List III
Graduate Reading Program
The Graduate Reading Program of primary sources is required of all Ph.D. degree candidates. The program is divided into three parts with reading lists corresponding approximately to a threefold chronological division of the history of philosophy. To be admitted as a candidate for the Ph.D. degree, a student must pass an examination on one of the parts. To qualify for the Ph.D. degree, a student must pass an examination on a second part, thus passing examinations on two of the three parts. The examinations are open-book: the student brings approved editions of the relevant texts (see the lists, below) to the examination. Both examinations must be passed before students are entitled to defend their doctoral dissertation. Students may take the two examinations in any order.
Graduate Reading List I
PRESOCRATICS:
Fragments and testimonia in The Presocratic Philosophers. Edited and translated by G. Kirk, J. Raven, and M. Schofield. Second edition. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Chapters 2-16, pages 76-452.
PLATO:
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic, Timaeus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Parmenides, Seventh Letter in Plato Complete Works. Edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Indianapolis: HACKETT, 1997. This edition is required.
ARISTOTLE:
Categories, On Interpretation, Posterior Analytics, On the Soul, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics in The Basic Works of Aristotle. Edited by Richard McKeon. New York: Random House, 1941 or later. Also acceptable: The Complete Works of Aristotle. The Revised Oxford Translation. Two Volumes. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
EPICURUS:
Fragments and testimonia of Epicurus in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998. Pages 3-102. This (second) edition contains new material and is required.
LUCRETIUS:
De rerum natura. Translated by M.F. Smith & W.H.D. Rouse. Revised Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb-Harvard Press, 1982. Also acceptable: On the Nature of the Universe. Translated by R.E. Latham. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951.
SCEPTICS:
Sceptical texts and testimonia in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998. Pages 261-397. This (second) edition contains new material and is required.
STOICS:
Stoic fragments and testimonia in Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998. Pages 103-260. This (second) edition contains new material and is required.
PLOTINUS:
Enneads 1.2 (19), 1.3 (20), 1.6 (1), 2.4 (12), 3.8 (30), 4.3 (27), 4.8 (6), 5.1 (10), 5.2 (11), 5.9 (5), 6.9 (9) in Plotinus. Translated by A. H. Armstrong. In Seven volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb-Harvard, 1966-1988. Also acceptable, with the exception of Ennead 2.4: The Essential Plotinus. Translated by O'Brien. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1964. O’Brien does not contain Ennead 2.4, on matter, which is important. Students are asked to copy that text from the Armstrong.
AUGUSTINE:
(i) Books X and XI of The Confessions of Augustine. Translated by John K. Ryan. New York: Image, 1960. Also acceptable: The translation by Henry Chadwick. Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
(ii) On Free Choice of the Will. Translated by A.S. Benjamin and L.H. Hackstoff. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. Also acceptable: The translation by Thomas Williams, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.
AVERROES:
The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection between Religion and Philosophy. Translated by G.F. Hourani. In Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Edited by A. Hyman and J.J. Walsh. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1973 and 1987. Pages 297-316. Also available in Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1963 and 1972.
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Graduate Reading List II
AQUINAS:
(i) Summa theologiae, Prima pars, quaestiones 1-3, and Prima secundae, quaestiones 1-5 and quaestiones 90-97, 100; cited by question number, article number, objection number, body of response, reply to objection. The standard English translation is St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. In 5 vols. The required questions are in vols. 1 and 2. The required questions in this translation can also be downloaded from www.newadvent.org/summa.
Prima secundae, quaestiones 1-5 are also available in Treatise on Happiness. Translated by John A. Oesterle. University of Notre Dame Press, 1983; originally Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Prima secundae, quaestiones 90-97, 100 are also available in St. Thomas on Law, Morality, and Politics. Edited by William P. Baumgarth and Richard J. Regan, S.J. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1988.
Please note: While several other translations or editions of material from the Summa theologiae are available, only those listed above are acceptable for this examination.
(ii) Aquinas: Selected Writings. Edited by Robert P. Goodwin. Library of Liberal Arts, 1965 or later.
(iii) The Division and Methods of the Sciences. Translated by A. Maurer. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Fourth Edition, 1986. This (fourth) edition contains significant changes over earlier editions and is required.
SCOTUS:
Philosophical Writings. Translated by Allan B. Wolter. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.
OCKHAM:
Philosophical Writings: A Selection. Second, revised edition. Introduced and translated by Philotheus Boehner. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990.
MACHIAVELLI:
The Prince. Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985 or later.
HOBBES:
Leviathan. Edited by C.P. Macpherson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968 or later.
DESCARTES:
Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy in The Philosophical Writings. Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Also acceptable: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett, 1998. Philosophical Essays. Translated by L.J. Lafleur. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.
Cite text by the standard Adam-Tannery (AT) page number, which is inserted in the English translation.
SPINOZA:
Ethics in The Ethics and Selected Letters. Translated by Samuel Shirley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982 or later.
LEIBNIZ:
New System of Nature, Specimen Dynamicum, Principles of Nature and Grace, Monadology in Philosophical Essays. Translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989.
LOCKE:
Second Treatise of Government. Any edition is acceptable. Cite text by chapter number and section number.
BERKELEY:
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982.
HUME:
A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge & P. Nidditch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978 or later.
ROUSSEAU:
On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men in The First and Second Discourses and Essay on the Origin of Languages. Edited, translated, and annotated by Victor Gourevitch. New York: Harper & Row (Perennial), 1986 or later. Pages 117-230. Also acceptable: First and Second Discourses. Edited by Roger D. Masters. New York: St. Martin's, 1969 or later.
KANT:
(i) The Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by N.K. Smith. New York, 1965 or later.
(ii) Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by James W. Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981 or later.
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Graduate Reading List III
HEGEL:
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A.V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
MILL:
(i) Utilitarianism. Edited by George Sher. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1979.
(ii) On Liberty. Edited by Currin V. Schields. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrills, 1956.
MARX:
The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, and Wage-Labour and Capital in Selected Writings. Edited by David McLellan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pages 159-191, 221-268.
NIETZSCHE:
Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by Walter F. Kaufmann. New York: Random House (Vintage), 1966.
HUSSERL:
(i) Sixth Logical Investigation, Sections I and II (Chapters 1-8), in Logical Investigations. Translated by J.N. Findlay. New York: Humanities, 1970 or later.
(ii) Cartesian Meditations. Translated by Dorion Cairns. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1977.
HEIDEGGER:
Being and Time. Translated by Macquarrie and Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. This translation is required.
WITTGENSTEIN:
(i) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Translated by D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness. New York: Humanities, 1972.
(ii) Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G.E. Anscombe. New York: Macmillan, 1953.
DEWEY:
Experience and Nature. New York: Dover, 1958 or later.
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