PH60A — History of Philosophy

Reading List: Ancient Period

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  • Julia Annas (2000) Ancient Philosophy. Oxford: OUP.
  • Aristotle: (1930) The Works of Aristotle. Edited by W. D. Ross. Oxford: OUP
  • J. Barnes (1979) The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. London: Routledge.
  • H. H Benson (2000) Socratic Wisdom. Oxford: OUP.
  • F. M Conford (1960) The Works of Plato. London: Routledge.
  • Frederick Copleston, S.J. (1963) A History of Western Philosophy. NY: Image Books
  • James M. Eddie et al (eds) (1987) Russian Philosophy Vol. 1-3. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press
  • Gail Fine (2000) Plato Oxford: OUP.
  • Gail Fine (1999) Plato 1 . Oxford: OUP.
  • Gail Fine (1999) Plato 2. Oxford: OUP.
  • M. Hiriyanna (1973) Outlines of Indian Philosophy. Bombay: George Allen and Unwin.
  • Michael Frede and Disela Striker, (1999) Rationality in Greek Thought Oxford: OUP.
  • Mandukya Karika (1989) Eight Upanishads. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama Press.
  • Richard D. McKirahan (1994) Philosophy Before Socrates. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  • S. Radhakrishnan (1973) A Source Book in Indian Philosophy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • David Sedley, (2000) Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford: OUP.
  • C. D. Sharma (1973) A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass.
  • Joseph J. Williams (1930) Hebrewisms of West Africa. New York: The Dial Press.

Reading List: Medieval Period

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  • W. B. Abraham (1962) The Mind of Africa. London: OUP.
  • J. F. Ade-Ajayi (1965) A Thousand Years of African History. London: Thomas Nelson.
  • Ulli Beier (1966) Origin of Life and Death – African Creation Myths. London: OUP.
  • Richard Bernheimer (1952) Wild Men in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: CUP
  • Richard Cross (2000) Duns Scotus Oxford: OUP
  • Mercia Elliade (1957) The Sacred and the Profane. New York: Routledge.
  • Anthony Kenny (1994) Aquinas on Mind. NY: Routledge
  • M. S. Kempshall (1999) The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought. Oxford: OUP
  • C. F. J. Martin (1999) On the Six Days of Creation. Oxford: OUP
  • Alli Mazrui (1967) Ancient Greece in African Political Thouhgt. Nairobi, Kenya: ACPT.
  • Gerard O’Daly (1999) Augustine’s City of God. Oxford: OUP
  • F. Snowden Jr. (1970) Blacks in Antiquity – Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Mass: Cambridge University Press.
  • P. G. Walsh (2000) The Consolation of Philosophy. Oxford: OUP

Reading List: Modern Period

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  • Wamde Abimbola (1968) Ijinle ohun enu Ifa. Glasgow: Collins
  • Wamde Abimbola (1975) Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa. UNESCO.
  • Chiuna Achebe (1975) Morning yet on Creation Day. New York: Anchor Press.
  • Francis Bacon (2000) The Advancement of Learning. Oxford: OUP
  • Francis Bacon (1960) Novum Organon. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.
  • G. Berkeley (1996) Principles of Human Knowledge. Oxford: OUP.
  • J. Cottingham et al (1988) Descartes ’ selected philosophical writings. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Rene Descartes (1954) Philosophical Writings. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.
  • G. F. Hegel (1977) The Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • F. Heidegger (1962) Being and Time. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • D. Hume (1978) Treatise of Human Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • I. Kant (1998) The Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: CUP
  • F. Leibnitz (1995) Philosophical Writings. London: Dent.
  • F. Nietzsche (1994) On the Genealogy of Morality. Cambridge: CUP.
  • P. H. Nidditch (1979) Locke: Essay on Human Understanding. Oxford: OUP
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (2000) Parerga and Paralipomena. Oxford: OUP
  • Baruch de Spinoza (1996) Ethics. London: Penguin

Reading List: Contemporary Period

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  • R. Abel (1976) Man is the Measure. NY: The Free Press
  • Robert Almeder (2000) Human Happiness and Morality NY: Prometheus Books.
  • A. R. Anderson (1964) Minds and Machines. NJ: Prentice Hall
  • Obafemi Awolowo (1968) The People’s Republic. Ibadan, Nigeria: OUP.
  • Obafemi Awolowo (1981) Voice of Reason. Akure, Nigeria: Fagbamigbe Publishers.
  • Molefi Kete Asante (1990) Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge. New Jersey: Africa World Press.
  • A. J. Ayer (1946) Language, Truth and Logic. NY: Dover
  • A. J. Ayer (1968) The Origins of Pragmatism. San Franscisco: Freeman Cooper Ltd.
  • M. Bernal (1987) Black Athena. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
  • P. O. Bodunrin (1971) Plato and his Contemporaries on the Possibility of Falsehood. PhD Thesis, University of Minnesota.
  • P. O. Bodunrin (1985) Philosophy in Africa. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press.
  • A. Bogues (1997) Caliban’s Freedom. London: Pluto Press
  • John H. Clarke (1991) New Dimensions in African History. New Jersey: Africa World Press.
  • B. Chevannes (1995) Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worlviews. The Hague: Macmillan
  • R. G. Collingwood (2001) The Principles of History. Oxford: OUP
  • R. G. Collingwood (1998) An Essay on Metaphysics. Oxford: OUP
  • R. G. Collingwood (1992) The New Leviathan. Oxford: OUP
  • Basil Davidson (1975) Can Africa Survive? Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown Co.
  • J. Derrida (1994) Specters of Marx. NY: Routledge
  • C. A. Diop (1991) The African Origin of Civilization. NY: Lawrence Hill Books
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1986) Essays and Articles. Cambridge: Library of America
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1990) The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Vintage Books
  • F. Fanon (1966) The Wretched of the Earth. NY: Grove Press
  • M. Foucault (1976) The Birth of the Clinic. NY: Routledge.
  • Amy Jacques Garvey (1970) The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. New York: Athenaeum.
  • Marcel Griaule (1970) Conversations with Ogotommeli. London: International African Institute.
  • J. Habermas (1975) Knowledge and Human Interests. London: Heinemann
  • S. Hampshire (1959) Thought and Action. London: Chalto and Windus.
  • C. G. Hempel (1965) Aspects of Scientific Explanation. NY: The Free Press
  • C. G. Hempel (1966) Philosophy of Natural Science. NJ: Prentice Hall
  • Paget Henry (2000) Caliban’s Reason NY: Routledge
  • P. J. Hountondji (1983) African Philosophy, Myth and Reality. London: Hutchinson.
  • J. Inikori (1992) The Chaining of a Continent. Kingston, Jamaica: ISER.
  • C. L. R. James (1993) World Revolution NJ: Humanities Press International
  • Moses Akin Makinde (1974) John Stuart Mill’s Theory of Logic and Scientific Method. PhD Thesis, University of Toronto.
  • Moses Akin Makinde (1988) African Philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
  • D. Masolo and H. O Oruka Eds. (1983) Philosophy and Cultures. Nairobi: Bookwise.
  • J. S. Mbiti (1969) African Religions and Philosophy. London: Heinmann.
  • J. S. Mill (1943) A System of Logic. London: Blackwell
  • T. Nagel (1966) The Structure of Science. NY: Harcourt Press
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1969) Neocolonialism – The last stage of Imperialism. New York: International Publishers.
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1964) Consciencism. New York: Monthly Review.
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1970) Class Struggle in Africa. New York: International Publishers.
  • Julius Nyerere (1967) Freedom and Unity. London: OUP.
  • Julius Nyerere (1968) Ujamaa: The basis of African Socialism. Dar-es-Salaam: OUP.
  • H. O. Oruka (1993) Sage Philosophy. Nairobi, Kenya: ACTS Publishers.
  • Okot P’Bitek (1970) African Religions in Western Scholarship. Nairobi: EALB
  • K. R. Popper (2001) The World of Permenides. NY: Routledge
  • K. R. Popper (1962 & 1968) The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol 1 & 2. NY: Routledge
  • K. R. Popper (1986) The Poverty of Historicism. NY: Routledge
  • K. R. Popper (1975) The Logic of Scientific Discovery. NY: Routlege.
  • K. R. Popper (1969) Conjectures and Refutations. NY: Rotledge.
  • W. V. O. Quine (1960) Word and Object. Cambridge: MIT Press
  • Walter Rodney (1983) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Bogle L’Ouverture
  • B. Russell (1975) The Conquest of Happiness. Oxford:OUP
  • B. Russell (1992) Analysis of Matter. Oxford: OUP
  • B. Russell (1989) Analysis of Mind. Oxford: OUP
  • B. Russell (1994) Philosophical Essays. Oxford: OUP
  • B. Russell (1995) An Outline of Philosophy. Oxford: OUP
  • B. Russell (1996) Sceptical Essays. Oxford: OUP
  • B. Russell (1992) Theory of Knowledge. Oxford: OUP
  • G. Ryle (1954) Dilemmas. Cambridge: CUP.
  • G. Ryle (1949) The Concept of Mind. NY: Barnes and Noble Inc.
  • J-P. Sartre (1969) Being and Nothingness. NY: Routledge
  • Leopold Seder Senghor (1964) On African Socialism. New York: Praeger Inc.
  • Leopold Seder Senghor (1970) “Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century” in W. Cartey and M. Kilson (eds.) The African Reader – Independent Africa. New York: Random House.
  • John Olubi Sodipo and Barry Hallen (1986) Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft. London: Ethnographica
  • C. Williams (1971) The Destruction of Black Civilization. New York: The Vail-Ballou Press.
  • L. Wittgenstein (2001) Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. NY: Routledge
  • L. Wittgenstein (1960) The Blue and Brown Books. NY: Harper Torchbooks
  • L. Wittgenstein (1976) Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Ngugi Wa Thiong’O (1972) Homecoming. Nairobi, Kenya: Heinmann.
  • K. Wiredu (1980) Philosophy and an African Thought. Cambridge: CUP.
  • K. Wiredu (1996) Cultural Universals and Particulars. Indianapolis: IUP

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