Library Resources for Philosophy: Home

• Introduction to Ethics

  Introductory ethics textbook edited by Noah Levin at Golden West College.

• An Introduction to Philosophy

  The goal of this text is to present philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline. Includes classic philosophy, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

• An Introduction to Philosophy: An Online Textbook

  An introduction to philosophical thought by Professor Philip A. Pecorino of Queensborough Community College.

• Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind

  Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field.

• LibreTexts Philosophy Bookshelf

  A collection of over 25 open philosophy books.

• Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

  Looks at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress.

• Modern Philosophy

  This textbook combines readings from primary sources with pedagogical tools.

• The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy

  Original texts covering major areas of philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Socio-Political Philosophy, and finally, Aesthetics.

• Project Gutenberg's Philosphy Bookshelf

  Free access to classic works of philosophy by Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Hume, Russell, and more. Organized by topic.

• Reading for Philosophical Inquiry: A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking, An Open Source Reader,

  An introductory text by Lander University that can be downloaded as a whole or in parts as HTML, PDF, or mp3 files.

• BC Open Textbooks

  The B.C. Open Textbook Project provides textbooks including Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy.

• Internet Archive - Philosophy

  Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

• MERLOT

  MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

• A Modern Formal Logic Primer - UC Davis

  Authored by Dr. Paul Teller at UC Davis, Volume I presents sentence logic. Volume II, Part 1 lays out predicate logic; Part 2 introduces metatheory.

• OER Commons

  OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for studies in Philosophy.

• Open Textbook Library

  Browse a wide selection of textbooks on philosophy.

• Project Gutenberg - Philosophy Bookshelf

  Project Gutenberg offers thousands of free ebooks. Books can be searched by title or by category.

Philosophy Now
This popular philosophy magazine features a selection of free articles from each issue, plus videos and podcasts.

Massimo Pigliucci Channel
The video channel of Professor Massimo Pigliucci (City University of New York), including "The 5-minute philosopher" videos, lectures, interviews, debates, and panel discussions.

SocioPhilosophy Channel
A YouTube channel featuring philosophy playlists that include videos from Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale, and more.

• HathiTrust

  HathiTrust offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world, including many of the great philosophy texts.

• Internet Archive: Digital Library

  Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

• Memrise - Philosophy

  Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.

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