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A Must Have Book For Every Philosophy Student

This list is organized alphabetically, by each philosopher’s last name. Given the number of excellent philosophers working today, this list is necessarily short, and almost entirely restricted to blogs and personal sites, rather than faculty pages. Nevertheless, the smattering of links should provide you with glimpses into the workings of these thinkers’ intellectual lives—glimpses not always possible from a book or scholarly paper.

If you are looking for a philosopher’s faculty page, where you’ll find information such as curriculum vitae, but you’re not sure where that individual works, it’s best to conduct an internet search of their name. Top hits will show you where they should be currently working.

Peter Adamson https://historyofphilosophy.net/historian-philosophy-advice
Adamson works in the history of philosophy. This page offers advice to anyone thinking about pursuing an advanced degree in philosophy.

Julia Annas http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jannas/
Annas works on Ancient Greek philosophy.

Kwame Anthony Appiah http://appiah.net/work/general-interest/
Appiah’s site contains a range of writings, from poetry to Tweets to general interest pieces. He works at the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality.

Simon Blackburn http://www2.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/
Blackburn often writes philosophy for a general reading audience.

Nick Bostrom https://www.nickbostrom.com
Bostrom works in the philosophy of science.

David Bourget http://www.dbourget.com
Bourget works in the philosophy of mind.

Robert Brandom http://www.pitt.edu/~brandom/index.html
Brandom works in philosophy of language.

Phillip Bricker http://www.philbricker.com
Bricker works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.

Quassim Cassam https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/cassam/
Cassam works in epistemology and philosophy of mind.

David Chalmers’ http://consc.net/philosophical-weblogs/
Chalmers works in the philosophy of mind, and his blog covers topics and areas of interest outside his own.

Andrew Chignell http://www.chignell.net
Chignell works primarily in early modern philosophy.

Noam Chomsky https://chomsky.info
Chomsky works across a number of areas of general interest to philosophy students, but he is primarily a philosopher of language.

Andrew Chrucky http://www.ditext.com/chrucky/chrucky.html
Chrucky writes across topics in contemporary philosophy.

Patricia Churchland https://patriciachurchland.com
Churchland works in cognitive science.

Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Information http://www.philosophyofinformation.net
Floridi works at the intersection of digital technology and ethics.

Rebecca Goldstein https://www.rebeccagoldstein.com
Goldstein is a philosopher (philosophy of mind and philosophy of mathematics) and a novelist. She also writes general interest philosophy books.

Peter King http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/
King works in Medieval philosophy.

David Koepsell https://davidkoepsell.com
Koepsell works in ethics and public policy.

Christian Thomas Kohl https://sites.google.com/site/ctkohl/
Kohl works in Asian philosophy.

Michael LaBossiere’s A Philosopher’s Blog http://aphilosopher.drmcl.com
LaBossiere writes essays across a broad range of topics.

Brian Leiter’s Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog https://leiterreports.typepad.com
Leiter’s sometimes controversial blog is a comprehensive look at all things to do with professional philosophy. Leiter also publishes The Philosophical Gourmet, a ranking of graduate programs in the English-speaking world: https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com.

Peter Smith’s Logic Matters http://www.logicmatters.net/blogfront/
A blog devoted to all things logic.

Richard Zach https://richardzach.org
Zach works on logic. He also has an archived site
(https://people.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/279/logicians.html) that provides biographical information, and further links, on thinkers in the history of logic.

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