Bibliography — Works Cited and Referenced

This bibliography lists the major works cited, quoted, or closely drawn upon throughout Practical Philosophy: How to Live. Citations follow Chicago/Turabian format. Primary sources are listed by author; ancient works use the author's name in the form most common in English. For ancient texts, standard section numbers (e.g., Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 1094a1) are used where applicable.

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Annas, Julia. The Morality of Happiness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Anscombe, G.E.M. "Modern Moral Philosophy." Philosophy 33, no. 124 (1958): 1–19.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. 5 vols. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1981.

Aristotle. De Anima (On the Soul). Translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred. London: Penguin Classics, 1986.

Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W.D. Ross. In The Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by Terence Irwin. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999.

Aristotle. Politics. Translated by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Austin, J.L. How to Do Things with Words. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

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Bakewell, Sarah. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails. New York: Other Press, 2016.

Baier, Annette. "What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?" Noûs 19, no. 1 (1985): 53–63.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Vintage, 2011.

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. 1789. Reprint, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Berkeley, George. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. 1713. Edited by Robert Adams. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1979.

Blackburn, Simon. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Translated by Victor Watts. London: Penguin Classics, 1999.

Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). Dhammapada. Translated by Eknath Easwaran. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1986.

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Cajete, Gregory. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe: Clear Light, 2000.

Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Translated by Justin O'Brien. New York: Vintage, 1955.

Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Translated by Matthew Ward. New York: Vintage, 1989.

Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Chalmers, David. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies 2, no. 3 (1995): 200–219.

Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Confucius (Kong Qiu). The Analects. Translated by Edward Slingerland. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003.

Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color." Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–99.

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Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso). The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. With Howard C. Cutler. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso). Ethics for the New Millennium. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Deloria, Vine, Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. 3rd ed. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2003.

Dennett, Daniel. Consciousness Explained. New York: Little, Brown, 1991.

Dennett, Daniel. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy. Translated by John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Deutsch, Eliot. Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1969.

Dewey, John. Art as Experience. New York: Minton, Balch, 1934.

Dreyfus, Hubert. Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.

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Easwaran, Eknath, trans. The Bhagavad Gita. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 2007.

Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Translated by John Wilkinson. New York: Vintage, 1964.

Epictetus. Discourses and Selected Writings. Translated by Robert Dobbin. London: Penguin Classics, 2008.

Epictetus. Enchiridion. Translated by P.E. Matheson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. Also available free online.

Epicurus. The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia. Translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

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Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2008.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. 3rd ed. London: Verso, 1993.

Floridi, Luciano. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.

Frankfurt, Harry. "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person." Journal of Philosophy 68, no. 1 (1971): 5–20.

Fricker, Miranda. Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Gethin, Rupert. The Foundations of Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Gyekye, Kwame. Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Hadot, Pierre. Philosophy as a Way of Life. Edited by Arnold Davidson. Translated by Michael Chase. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Hadot, Pierre. The Present Alone Is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold Davidson. Translated by Marc Djaballah. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Hadot, Pierre. What Is Ancient Philosophy? Translated by Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Pantheon, 2012.

Hall, David L., and Roger T. Ames. Thinking Through Confucius. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987.

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A.V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

Heidegger, Martin. "The Question Concerning Technology." In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, 3–35. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Held, Virginia. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by C.B. Macpherson. London: Penguin Classics, 1985.

Holiday, Ryan. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2014.

hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. New York: William Morrow, 2000.

hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Hume, David. Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals. 3rd ed. Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

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Ivanhoe, Philip J. Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

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James, William. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. 1907. Reprint, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902. Reprint, New York: Modern Library, 1999.

Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

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Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Christine Korsgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Mary Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Either/Or, Part I and II. Translated by Howard and Edna Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling / Repetition. Translated by Howard and Edna Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 1963. Reprinted in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr., edited by James M. Washington. New York: HarperCollins, 1986.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Laozi. Tao Te Ching. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Boston: Shambhala, 1997.

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Larson, Gerald James. Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1979.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969.

Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Edited by Peter Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Long, A.A. Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. 3rd ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

Marinoff, Lou. Plato, Not Prozac! Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

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Matilal, Bimal Krishna. Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. 2nd ed. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith. London: Routledge, 1962.

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Nagel, Thomas. Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

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Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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