Past Readings

2018 Selected Works

Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin edition preferred)
Jules Evan, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
Carlin Romano, excerpts from America the Philosophical
Oliver Sacks, The River of Consciousness
Thomas Pink, Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)

2017 Selected Works

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
The Bhagavad Gita
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
R. J. Hollingdale, editor, A Nietzsche Reader

2016 Selected Works

Ancius Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Arthur Herman, The Cave and The Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

2015 Selected Works

Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
Simon Glendinning, Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

2014 Selected Works

David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker
Naomi Klein, No Logo
Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Life
Morris Dickstein, ed. The Revival of Pragmatism (first section)
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom