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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
The Kybalion
by Three Initiates
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
by Annaka Harris
Philosophers on God: Talking about Existence
by Jack Symes
Defeating the Evil-God Challenge: In Defence of God’s Goodness
by Jack Symes