General Philosophy  

Descartes, Rene, Meditations on First Philosphy (Cambridge:Cambridge UP,1996)
Freud, Sigmund, Civilization & Its Discontents (NY: WW Norton, 1961)
Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan (NY: Collier Books,1962)
Hume, David, Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding (Chicago: Open Court, 1996)
Kant, Immanuel, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (Indpls: Bobs-Merrill,1949)
Kierkegaard, Soren, Fear & Trembling (NY: Penquin Classics)
Kierkegaard, Soren, Sickness Unto Death (NY: Penquin Classics, 1989)
Kuhn, Thomas, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1970)
Marx, Karl, Marx-Engels Reader ed. R. Tucker (NY: WW Norton, 1978)
Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morals (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994)
Pascal, Blaise, Penses (NY: Penguin Classics)
Plato, The Republic (NY: Vintage Books, 1991)
Weber, Max, From Max Weber (NY: Oxford UP, 1958)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, On Certainty (NY: Harper&Row)

Philosophy of Mind  

Churchland, Paul, Matter & Consciousness (Cambridge: MIT ress, 1988)
Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained (Boston:Little&Brown, 1991)
Searle, John, Mind, Brains, & Science (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984)(very concise treatment of coginitive science)
(see also Searles excellent lecture series on Phil. of Mind through the Teaching Co.)
--Web Cognitive Science resources---


Science and Philosophy  

Davies, Paul, The Matter Myth (NY: Simon&Schuster, 1992)
Davies, P.C.W. & J. Brown, Superstrings (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,1988)
>  Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989)
>  Dennett, Daniel, Darwin's Dangerous Idea (NY: Touchstone,1995)
  Dozier, Rush, Codes of Evolution (NY: Crown Pub, 1992)
Foster, David, The Philosophical Scientists (NY:Barnes&Noble, 1985)
Gleick, James, Chaos (NY: Penguin, 1987)
Jones, Shirley ed., The Mind of God (San Raphael: New World Library, 1994)    --(collection of sayings of prominent scientists)
---more chaos---
Evolution & Philosophy: a revolution IN philosophy homepage with very similar ideas to those presented in this page but in much greater detail and with very different conclusions (thesis of K Van Cleave)

Religion  

Augustine, St. The City of God (NY: Doubleday, 1958)
Augustine, St. The Confessions (NY: Image Books, 1960)
>Borg, Marcus, The God We Never Knew (SF: HarperCollins,1997)
Borg, Marcus, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (SF: HarperCollins, 1995)
Buber, Martin, I and Thou (NY: Scribner & Sons,1958)
Funk, Robert, ed., The Five Gospels (SF: HarperCollins, 1997) (what did Jesus Really Say? --proceedings of the Jesus Seminar)
Haverstick, John, The Progress of the Protestant (A Pictorial History) (NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968)
Milton, John, Paradise Lost (NY: WW Norton, 1975)
Meeks, Wayne, The Origins of Christian Morality (New Haven: Yale U P, 1993)
Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels (NY: Vintage, 1981)
Placher, William, Unapologetic Theology (Louisville: Westminister/John Knox P, 1989)
Robbins, Terry, ed., The Essential Luther (Barker Books, 1991)
Tillich, Paul, The Courage to Be (New Haven: Yale UP, 1976)

Sexuality  

Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
(Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981)
Cahill, Lisa, Between the Sexes: Foundation for a Christian Ethics of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress P, 1985)
Califia, Pat, Public Sex (SF: Cleis P, 1994)
Easton, Dossie & Catherine Liszt, The Ethical Slut (SF: Greenery P, 1997)
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, An Intro. Vol I (NY: Random House, 1990)
Gudorf, Christine Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim's P, 1994)
Highwater, Jamake, Myth & Sexuality (NY: Penguin, 1989)
Mann, A T & Jane Lyle, Sacred Sexuality (NY: Barnes & Noble, 1995)
Nelson, James, Between Two Gardens (NY: Pilgrim P, 1983)
Paglia, Camille, Sexual Personae (NY: Vintage Books, 1991)
Rudy, Kathy, Sex and the Church (Boston: Beacon P, 1997)
Dr. Susan Block: Philosopher, ethical hedonist, and sex radio talk show host (Author: Ten Commandments of Pleasure)
Liberated Christians: a virtual community of Christian swingers/polyamorists, good (though a bit cursory) discussion of Biblical references to sex
Affirmation: United Methodists for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns
SIECUS: organization concerned with dissemination of info on sexual issues, Excellent and concise review of Biblical references to sexuality

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