Philosophy A list of books about philosophy mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Books by Jacques Derrida (Writing and Difference shown) by Jacques Derrida Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind by William Walker Atkinson The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt psychology Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Søren Kierkegaard Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth by René Descartes The Tibetan Book of the Dead religion The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom history Free Will by Sam Harris philosophy The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran On Liberty by John Stuart Mill politics books about Stoicism by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky literature The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn science Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche The I Ching or Book of Changes The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene history The Republic by Plato literature Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein Being and Time by Martin Heidegger Pensées (Pascal’s Wager) by Blaise Pascal Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think by Andy Norman Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity by Edward Slingerland Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M Pirsig The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel Consciousness and Fundamental Reality by Philip Goff Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness: Through the Looking Glass by Michael Tye Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality by Oswald Spengler The Decline of the West: Perspectives of World-History by Oswald Spengler Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life by Oswald Spengler What is Life?: With Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrodinger science The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman biography The Discourses of Epictetus and the Enchiridion by Epictetus
