In December, I asked philosophy people on Facebook for must-read philosophy papers. Here is the result. Enjoy! (Rendered with EndNote.)
Adams, R. M. (1985). Involuntary Sins. The Philosophical Review, 94(1), 3–31.
Anderson, E. S. (1999). What Is the Point of Equality? Ethics, 109(2), 287–337.
Annas, J. (2004). Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 78(2), 61–75.
Anscombe, G. E. M. (1981). Causality and Determination Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (pp. 133–147): University of Minnesota Press.
Carnap, R. (1950). Empiricism, semantics, and ontology. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 4(11), 20–40.
—. (1963). On Explication Logical Foundations of Probability: The University of Chicago Press.
Davidson, D. (1973). On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 47, 5–20.
Geach, P. T. (1956). Good and Evil. Analysis, 17(2), 33–42.
Goodman, N. (1955). The New Riddle of Induction Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (pp. 59–83): Harvard University Press.
Hampton, J. (1988). The Retributive Idea. In J. Murphy & J. Hampton (Eds.), Forgiveness and Mercy: Cambridge University Press.
Hegel, G. W. F. (1820). Preface (S. W. Dyde, Trans.) Philosophy of Right.
Kripke, S. A. (1971). Identity and necessity. In M. K. Munitz (Ed.), Identity and Individuation (pp. 135–164): New York University Press.
Langton, R. (1992). Duty and Desolation. Philosophy, 67, 481–505.
Morris, H. (1968). Persons and Punishment. The Monist, 52(4), 475–501.
Murdoch, I. (2001). The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts The Sovereignty of Good (pp. 77–104): Routledge.
—. (2001). The Idea of Perfection The Sovereignty of Good: Routledge.
Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? Philosophical Review, 83(4), 435–450.
—. (1993). Moral Luck. In D. Statman (Ed.), Moral Luck: State University of New York Press.
Nietzsche, F. (2005). Om sanning och lögn i utommoralisk mening (M. Holmqvist, Trans.) Fridrich Nietzsche: Samlade skrifter band 2. Otidsenliga betraktelser I-IV / Efterlämnade skrifter 1872-1875: Symposion.
Norcross, A. (2004). Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases. Philosophical Perspectives, 18(1), 229–245.
Nozick, R. (1969). Coercion. In W. Morgenbesser (Ed.), Philosophy, science, and method: Essays in honor of Ernest Nagel (pp. 440–472). New York: St Martin’s Press.
Nunberg, G. (forthcoming). The Social Life of Slurs. In D. Fogal, D. Harris, & M. Moss (Eds.), New Work on Speech Acts: Oxford University Press.
Parfit, D. (1984). What we believe ourselves to be Reasons and persons: Oxford University Press.
Putnam, H. (1975). The meaning of ‘meaning’. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 7, 131–193.
Russell, B. (1912). The Value of Philosophy The Problems of Philosophy.
Sellars, W. (1963). Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (pp. 1–40): Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Sen, A. (2006). What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice? The Journal of Philosophy, 103(5), 215–238.
Singer, P. (1972). Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1(3), 229–243.
Tarski, A. (1944). The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundation of Semantics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4(3), 341–376.
Williams, B. A. O., & Atkinson, W. F. (1965). Ethical Consistency. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 39(1), 103–138.
Williams, T. (2006). Must Do Better. In P. Greenough & M. P. Lynch (Eds.), Truth and Realism: Oxford University Press.
Wolf, S. (1982). Moral Saints. The Journal of Philosophy, 79(8), 419–439.
