My Philosophy Project Important Books

Linguistics

- Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky

- Current Issues in Linguistic Theory by Noam Chomsky

- Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky

- Cartesian Linguistics by Noam Chomsky

- Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky

- Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky

- The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (have)

- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff

- Gödel, Escher, bach by Douglass Hofstadter

- Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

- Language: A Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

- Language, Truth, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf

- A Guide to Worlds Languages by Merrit Ruhlen

- Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky

- Language and Thought of the Child by Jean Piaget

- Performative/Constative by John Austin

- Speech Acts by John Searle

- Signs, Language, and Behavior by Charles William Morris

- Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time by Roman Jakobson

- Prolegomena to a Theory of Language by Louis Hjlemslev

- System and Function in Language by M.A.K. Halliday

- What is Morphology? by Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman

- Word Formation in Generative Grammar by Mark Aronoff

- Morphology by Itself by Mark Aronoff

- Syntax: A Generative Introduction by Andrew Carnie

- Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction by Paul R. Kroeger

- Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics by Alan Cruse

- Semantics by Kate Kearns

- Introducing Semantics by Nick Riemer

- Theories of Lexical Semantics by Dirk Geeraerts

- Foundations of Intensional Semantics by Chris Fox, Shallom Lappin

- What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics by Paul Portne

- Introduction to Pragmatics by Betty J. Birner

- Pragmatics by Yan Huang

- Pragmatics: An Introduction by Jacob May


Analytic Philosophy

- G.E. Moore

- Bertrand Russel

- Gottlob Frege

- Kurt Gödel

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

- Willard Van Orman Quine

- Rudolph Carnap

- A.J. Ayer

- Saul Aaron Kripke

- Karl Popper

- John Searle

- Edmund L. Gettier

- J.L. Austin

- Alfred Tarski


Semiotics

- Charles Sanders Pierce

- Jacques Derrida

- Umberto Eco


Existentialism

- Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, The Sickness Unto Death, Works of Love, Stages of Life's Way, The Concept of Anxiety

- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, On the Geneology of Morals, Ecce Homo, The Birth of Tragedy, The Antichrist, Twilight of the Idols

- Martin Heidegger - Being and Time, Introduction to Metaphysics, On the Way to Language, What is Called Thinking?, Discourse on Thinking, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

- Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness, Existentialism is a Humanism, The Words

- Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex

- Albert Camus - [novelist]


Also Physics, Mathematics, and Logic (Especially Quantum Logic)

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