Book Notes

Hey guys. I am going to keep notes of books and articles that I read. This is to help me remember what I read–I have to write a summary of the material (from memory), which helps to remember it. Also, it will help me keep a record of what I read, so I can revisit it to refresh/test my memory of these books and articles.

I will have a short summary of each article or book chapter (I’m going to do each chapter individually, so I won’t condense a whole book into five sentences!). I will also include up to 5 key points or quotations that I want to remember. These will be points or quotations that I don’t already know, so they aren’t necessary the five most important points in the text. If I’ve read a book before, then when I make notes on my rereading, my key points will be things I don’t already know.

(Below I have posted the titles of books from a reading list for the Doctorate program in Philosophy at St. Louis University. I will link to the book summaries as I read–in some cases, reread–them. Until then, they will remain without a link.)

 

• Barry Stoud, “The Problem of the External World” from *The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism* (single chapter; won’t be doing whole book.)
• G. E. Moore, “Proof of an External World”
• G. E. Moore, “Four Forms of Scepticism”
• Plato, Euthyphro
• Plato, Apology
• Plato, Crito
• Plato, Gorgias
• Plato, Meno
• Plato, Phaedo
• Plato, Republic
• Plato, Theaetetus
• Plato, Euthyphro
• Plato, Parmenides (126a-135c)
• Plato, Timaeus (47-54)
• Plato, Sophist
• Aristotle, Categories (Ackrill’s trans.) (1-5)
• Aristotle, Topics (I.4, 9)
• Aristotle, Physics (I.5-9, II)
• Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption (I.3)
• Aristotle, Parts of Animals (I.1,5)
• Aristotle, Metaphysics (I; II.1-3; III.1-4,6; IV.1-5; VII; VIII; IX; XIII, 4,9)
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
• Plotinus, Enneads (I.6: “On Beauty”)
• Kirk, et al., Fragments and Testimonia in The Presocratic Philosophers
• Epicurus, Principal Doctrines
• Fragments and Testimonia in Hellenistic Philosophy (73-156)
• Fragments and Testimonia in Hellenistic Philosophy (159-239)
• Augustine, Confessions
• Augustine, The City of God (Books 5-10, 12-15, 18, 19)
• Anselm, Proslogion
• Anselm, On Free Will
• Aquinas, (A) Concerning God: Summa Theologica (I qq. 1-12, 19-23)
• Aquinas, (B) Concerning Human Nature and Action: Summa Theologica (I qq. 75-76, 82-83; I-II, qq. 1-21)
• Aquinas, (C) Concerning Law: Summa Theologica (I-II, qq. 91-95)
• Aquinas, (D) Concerning Faith: Summa Theologica (II-II qq. 1-7)
• Bonaventure, Journey of the Mind to God
• Duns Scotus, Quodlibetal Questions (qq. 1, 7, 16-18)
• Ockham, Quodlibetal Questions (I, qq. 1, 10, 16, 20; II, qq. 1, 4; III, qq. 2, 12, 14; V, qq. 4-6)
• Augustine, De Magistro
• Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (I, cc. 21-26, 51-61, 71-76; II, introduction, cc. 1, 13-23; III, cc. 10-33)
• Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence (pp. 1-69, last four discussions “About the Natural Sciences”)
• Abelard, Ethica
• Aquinas, De Ente et Essentia
• Bonaventure, On the Mystery of the Trinity (q. 1)
• Duns Scotus, Texts in Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality, tr. Allan Wolter, Catholic University of America Press, 1986
• Ockham, Predestination, God’s Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents, tr. Marilyn McCord Adams and Norman Kretzmann, Hackett, 1983
• Ockham, Ockham’s Theory of Propositions tr. Alfred Freddoso, University of Notre Dame Press, 1980 (pp. 79-107
• Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
• Hobbes, Leviathan (Introduciton, Part I: chs. 1-6, 10, 12-15; Part II: chs. 17-18, 21, 24, 29-31; Part III: chs. 32, 39, 43; Part IV: 44, 46; Review & Conclusion)
• Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Epistle to the Reader; Bk I: chs. 1-3; Bk II: 2-3, 8, 11-12, 27; Bk III, chs. 1-3; Bk IV: chs. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19
• Locke, Second Treatise of Government, (chs. 1-5, 7-9, 18-19)
• Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Hume, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
• Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Norman Kemp Translation)
• Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit Preface, Introduction, (A) Consciousness & (B) Self-Consciousness
• Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
• Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
• Spinoza, Ethics (Part 1)
• Leibniz, Monadology
• Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge
• Nietzsche, Geneology of Morals (Preface, Parts I & II)
• Peirce, “Fixation of Belief”
• Peirce, “How to Make Ideas Clear”
• Peirce, “What Pragmatism Is”
• Dewey, Quest for Certainty
• Rawls, A Theory of Justice (sections 1-6, 10-17, 20-23, 33-35, 39-40, 79, 87)
• Frege, “On Sense and Reference”
• Moore, Principia Ethica (chs. 1 & VI)
• Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
• Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Husserl, Cartesian Meditations
• Heidegger, “Origin of the Work of Art”
• Heidegger, “Question Concerning Technology”
• Heidegger, Being and Time (Division I)
• Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action (Vol. I, chs. 1, 3; Vol. II, ch. 2)
• Maritain, The Person and the Common Good
• Taylor, C., “Ethics of Authenticity”
• Russell, Principia Mathematica (Introduction; Chapters I, II, & III)
• Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
• Popper, Conjectures and Refutations (ch. 1 “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”)
• Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (secs. 1-77, 109-133, 241, 309, 329, 340, 371-373, 383, 432
• Gilson, Being and Some Philosophers
• Murray, S.J. “We Hold These Truths”
• Foucault, Discipline and Punishment
• Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory”
• Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Levinas, Totality and Infinity
• Rorty, “Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism,” in Consequences of Pragmatism
• Whitehead, Adventures in Ideas
• Derrida, “Event, Signature, Context”