Ideas for preliminary reading
The books listed below provide good introductions to different topics in Philosophy:
- Bertrand Russell Problems of Philosophy (OUP)
- Brian Davies An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (OUP)
- JS Mill On Liberty (Pelican)
- Plato The Last Days of Socrates (Pelican)
- PM Churchland Matter and Consciousness (MIT Press)
- Thomas Nagel What does it all mean? (OUP) , Mortal Questions (CUP)
- Bernard Williams Morality (Penguin)
- Colin Lyas Aesthetics (UCL Press)
- Peter Singer Practical Ethics (CUP)
- Brian Magee The Great Philosophers (BBC Books)
- Richard Taylor Metaphysics (Prentice Hall)
- N Warburton Philosophy: the basics (Routledge)
