🐯 Princeton Philosophy unofficial reading list 2026
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Sophomore level
Tools for Thought: Logic, Probability, and Arguments for Philosophy & Life PHI 221 (fa26)
- How Logic Works: A User’s Guide by Hans Halvorson
African American Studies & the Philosophy of Race PHI 291 (fa26)
- The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martin Alcoff
- ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
- The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
- ✔️ Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)
- More Beautiful & More Terrible: The Embrace & Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the US by Imani Perry
- Race: A Philosophical Introduction by Paul C. Taylor
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Junior level
Aristotle & His Successors PHI 301 (fa26)
- Complete Works of Aristotle, v.1
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Computability & Logic PHI 312 (fa26)
- Computability and Logic by Boolos et al.
Philosophy of Science PHI 321 (fa26)
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason & of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes
- The World & Man by René Descartes
- Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle
- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy by Margaret Cavendish
- The Essential Galileo
- Leibniz and Clarke: Correspondence
- Newton: Philosophical Writings
- Francis Bacon: Selected Philosophical Works
Semantics PHI 334 (fa26)
- Semantics in Generative Grammar by Heim & Kratzer
Graduate level
Pre-Kantian Rationalism: The Ethics & the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus PHI 511 (fa26)
- The Collected Works of Spinoza, Vol. II by Edwin Curley