Lending Library
The Institute maintains a lending library of philosophical and scientific
works which may be perused by members in our reading room, or taken home after posting a
small deposit.
A partial listing of available works in Philosophy.
Plato's Republic.
The Works of Plato, edited by Irwin Edman. Includes
Euthyphro, Apology, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Symposium, and
the Theatetus
The Histories, by Herodotus
A New Aristotle Reader, edited by J.L Ackrill
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, (vol. 1), Translated by
Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch.
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus, by George Berkeley
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ethics, and Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, by Baruch Spinoza
Discourse on Metaphysics, by G.W. Leibnitz
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, by Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill
The Science of Correct Thinking: Logic, by Celestine Biddle.
Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, by Jonathan Dancy
The Portable Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman
The Nature of Mind, edited by David Rosenthal. Contains 62 essays including Putnam's "Brains and Behaviour", Armstrong's
"Causal Theory of Mind", Lewis' "Mad Pain and Martian Pain",
Kim's "Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation, Fodor's "Propositional
Attitudes", Searle's "Minds, Brains, and Programs", Dennett's
"Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology"
Philosophy of Natural Science, by Carl Hempel.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian
Jaynes
Law's Empire, by Ronald Dworkin
Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel
A partial listing of available works in Science.
A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking.
Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould: a
history of the explosion of arthropod life in the Cambrian Era.
Science Magazine, the leading scientific journal in the world.
The most recent ten
year's worth (520 issues) are on file.
Various Textbooks in chemistry, biology,
medicine, psychology, mathematics, architecture, etc. |
