Reading lists for 2024-25 are currently being reviewed and updated. After 8 July 2024, links to Reading Lists Online may point to draft lists for the new academic year that are currently under construction. Links to final Word and PDF versions of the reading lists for the new academic year will be updated before the start of Michaelmas Term.
To make the online reading lists easier to navigate, as well as providing complete lists, we have also broken each one down into shorter lists of readings for key sections of the syllabus. For hints and tips for making the online reading lists work for you, see the Reading Lists Online LibGuide.
To access scans of book chapters linked to in the online reading lists, you will need to self-enrol onto the relevant Moodle courses. To do that, go to the Philosophy Undergraduates course, click on the link for the course you need, and follow the onscreen instructions.
Shortcuts:
Part IA
All papers at Part IA are compulsory.
Paper 1 Metaphysics 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 2 Ethics & Political Philosophy 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 3 Meaning 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 4 Set Texts 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 5 Formal Methods 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Part IA Seminar (Discussion Group) Readings opens in new window
Part IB
Paper 1 Knowledge, Language and World is the only compulsory paper at Part IB.
Paper 1 Knowledge, Language and World 2023-24 (Compulsory) [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 2 History of Analytic Philosophy 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 3 Ethics 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 4 Greek and Roman Philosophy (borrowed from the Classics Tripos)
Paper 5 Early Modern Philosophy 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 6 Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science (borrowed from the Natural Sciences Tripos)
Paper 7 Political Philosophy 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 8 Experimental Psychology (borrowed from the Natural Sciences Tripos)
Paper 9 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Part IB Seminar (Discussion Group) Readings opens in new window
Part II
There are no compulsory papers at Part II.
Paper 1 Metaphysics 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 2 Philosophy of Mind 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 3 Ethics 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 4 European Philosophy from Kant 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 5 Philosophy in the Long Middle Ages 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 6 Philosophy of Science 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 7 Mathematical Logic 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 8 Philosophical Logic 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 9 Wittgenstein and His Successors 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 10 Political Philosophy 2023-24 [Word] [PDF] [Reading Lists Online via link in Moodle (opens in new window)]
Paper 14 Plato (borrowed from the Classics Tripos)
Paper 15 Aristotle's world from turtles to tragedies (borrowed from the Classics Tripos)
Paper 16 Philosophy, Politics and the Polis (borrowed from the Classics Tripos)
Further help and support
If you have any difficulties finding or accessing the readings you need or navigating your reading lists please contact the Library team and we will be very happy to help. If you have a Student Support Document from the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre which recommends access to alternate library resources, the Cambridge University Libraries Accessibility Service can usually obtain or create accessible digital formats of publications held in the libraries for your own personal use. Email them direct or contact the Philosophy Librarian for further assistance. Further information about this and other accessible library services can also be found on the Cambridge University Libraries Accessibility Service LibGuide.
