| author | Alan Dipert
<alan@tailrecursion.com> 2026-08-13 02:10:22 UTC |
| committer | Alan Dipert
<alan@tailrecursion.com> 2026-08-13 02:10:22 UTC |
| parent | 26c5989d134af4270e8796918181fe38053e41a6 |
| md/Lisp/GherkinHistory.md | +3 | -3 |
| md/RecoveredTechnicalWriting.md | +9 | -9 |
| md/TechWorks.md | +7 | -7 |
| md/WellReadUndergrad.md | +19 | -19 |
diff --git a/md/Lisp/GherkinHistory.md b/md/Lisp/GherkinHistory.md index f2ef53d..ac22cc6 100644 --- a/md/Lisp/GherkinHistory.md +++ b/md/Lisp/GherkinHistory.md @@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ In a quest to become a **Real Lisp Hacker**, I bounced around Google search resu * [Closure conversion: How to compile lambda,](http://matt.might.net/articles/closure-conversion/) a blog post by [Matt Might](http://matt.might.net/) * [Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence (PAIP),](https://amzn.to/3px57ZJ) a book by [Peter Norvig.](https://norvig.com/) This book is now also [freely available](https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp) online. * [(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))](https://norvig.com/lispy.html), a page by Peter Norvig -* [Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers](https://web.archive.org/web/20190927121406/http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/) +* [Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers](https://web.archive.org/web/20190927121406id_/http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/) Of the stuff I read, [PAIP](https://amzn.to/3px57ZJ) probably propelled me the furthest along, but I struggled to develop a really solid comprehension of the basic implementation mechanics of things like closures. In retrospect, this is almost surely because I was experimenting in Clojure, but the examples were in [Common Lisp](./CommonLisp.md), a language I didn't know well. -In the fall of 2013, in the month before Clojure/conj, I ran across [awklisp](https://github.com/darius/awklisp) by [Darius Bacon](https://web.archive.org/web/20200216105017/http://wry.me:80/~darius/). I became obsessed with it. +In the fall of 2013, in the month before Clojure/conj, I ran across [awklisp](https://github.com/darius/awklisp) by [Darius Bacon](https://web.archive.org/web/20200216105017id_/http://wry.me:80/~darius/). I became obsessed with it. awklisp had a few properties unique among available implementations at the time. I believe this set of properties made it especially compelling to me as a learning aid: @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ I'm aware of these projects that were inspired by or otherwise related to Gherki * [timl](https://github.com/tpope/timl) by [Tim Pope](https://tpo.pe/) is an impressive Clojure-like language that *compiles* to VimL. It is a much more sophisticated and comprehensive effort than Gherkin. Tim [was moved](https://twitter.com/tpope/status/1202261256859729920) to create timl after seeing my lightning talk. * [Fleck](https://github.com/chr15m/flk) by [Chris McCormick](https://mccormick.cx/) is "a Clojure-like LISP that runs wherever Bash is". -* Andy Chu [reported on Twitter](https://twitter.com/oilshellblog/status/1327317599558897666) that he used Gherkin at one point [as part of the tests](https://t.co/ud7Uf3bhVf?amp=1) for the parser of his [oil shell](https://www.oilshell.org/). +* Andy Chu [reported on Twitter](https://twitter.com/oilshellblog/status/1327317599558897666) that he used Gherkin at one point as part of the tests for the parser of his [oil shell](https://www.oilshell.org/). Proper BDFL attire diff --git a/md/RecoveredTechnicalWriting.md b/md/RecoveredTechnicalWriting.md index b051802..3c5da9f 100644 --- a/md/RecoveredTechnicalWriting.md +++ b/md/RecoveredTechnicalWriting.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ It connects parsing, compilation, evaluation, and the practical appeal of a Lisp representation without treating the language as a museum piece. [Read the recovered nine-page PDF](./RecoveredTechnicalWriting/discover-lisp-in-your-browser.pdf) -or [view the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130603151958/http://alan.dipert.org/post/7193534410/discover-lisp-in-your-web-browser-with-javascript). +or [view the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130603151958id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/7193534410/discover-lisp-in-your-web-browser-with-javascript). The PDF is the July 2011 original recovered from an October 2011 Wayback capture. @@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ This 2010 note sketches an editor where the underlying program structure is primary and text is one view of it. The idea became a thread through several later experiments in structural editing. -[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507052435/http://alan.dipert.org/post/445462664/the-s-expression-editor) +[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507052435id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/445462664/the-s-expression-editor) ## Structural editing series These three posts follow the idea from editor mechanics into questions about selection, movement, and the representation of code: -- [Structural Editing Redux](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507063732/http://alan.dipert.org/post/17375691572/structural-editing-redux), 2012 -- [Structural Editing Revisited](https://web.archive.org/web/20130603035515/http://alan.dipert.org/post/47444634908/structural-editing-revisited), 2013 -- [Structural Editing Apocrypha](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507050857/http://alan.dipert.org/post/47461498337/structural-editing-apocrypha), 2013 +- [Structural Editing Redux](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507063732id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/17375691572/structural-editing-redux), 2012 +- [Structural Editing Revisited](https://web.archive.org/web/20130603035515id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/47444634908/structural-editing-revisited), 2013 +- [Structural Editing Apocrypha](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507050857id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/47461498337/structural-editing-apocrypha), 2013 ## A Sigh of Datomic @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ with immutable facts and questions rather than mutable records. The direct post URL was not indexed, but the full essay survives in the recovered 2013 homepage capture. -[Read the archived homepage capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20130422022621/http://alan.dipert.org/) +[Read the archived homepage capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20130422022621id_/http://alan.dipert.org/) ## NCSA Mosaic on Github @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ I wrote this short account in 2010 after moving the old Mosaic source into a Git repository. It records why software preservation mattered to me before Software Heritage made the same repository part of its public examples. -[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507053140/http://alan.dipert.org/post/435071716/ncsa-mosaic-on-github) +[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130507053140id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/435071716/ncsa-mosaic-on-github) ## My EngineYard Contest Odyssey @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ This 2009 technical story follows a programming contest entry from C code to EC2 images and a fleet of roughly 70 virtual machines. It is a useful picture of cloud experimentation before that workflow became routine. -[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110615073839/http://alan.dipert.org/post/146555473/my-engineyard-contest-odyssey) +[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110615073839id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/146555473/my-engineyard-contest-odyssey) ## Polyglot Folding @@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ This 2009 tutorial compares folds in Ruby, Clojure, and Scala. Some library details have aged, but the central comparison between iteration and reducing a sequence remains useful. -[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130602154353/http://alan.dipert.org/post/307586762/polyglot-folding-ruby-clojure-scala) +[Read the archived post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130602154353id_/http://alan.dipert.org/post/307586762/polyglot-folding-ruby-clojure-scala) diff --git a/md/TechWorks.md b/md/TechWorks.md index c0bfa37..3c6bc90 100644 --- a/md/TechWorks.md +++ b/md/TechWorks.md @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ The role-labeled software history is in [Open Source](./OpenSource.md). [Copies | 2020-04-27 | [ELS](https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/) | [JACL: A Common Lisp for Developing Single-Page Web Applications](./TechWorks/jacl-demo-els-2020.pdf) | Academic Paper | Author | | | 2020-01-31 | rstudio::conf | [Integration Testing in Shiny Apps and Modules](./TechWorks/2020-01-28-RStudio-Conf-Integration-Testing-ePoster.pdf) | Poster | Presenter | | | 2019-12-11 | WWW | [Just Lisp Things](https://tailrecursion.com/jlt/) | Blog | Author | | -| 2019-11-19 | [OCRUG](https://web.archive.org/web/20220123183238/https://ocrug.org/) | [Integrating React.js and Shiny](https://www.meetup.com/OC-RUG/events/265511792/), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/ocrug-2018-11-27) | Presentation | Presenter | | -| 2019-11-16 | [OCRUG](https://web.archive.org/web/20220123183238/https://ocrug.org/) | [OCRUG interview](./TechWorks/OCRUGInterview.html) | Interview | Interviewee | | +| 2019-11-19 | [OCRUG](https://web.archive.org/web/20220123183238id_/https://ocrug.org/) | [Integrating React.js and Shiny](https://www.meetup.com/OC-RUG/events/265511792/), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/ocrug-2018-11-27) | Presentation | Presenter | | +| 2019-11-16 | [OCRUG](https://web.archive.org/web/20220123183238id_/https://ocrug.org/) | [OCRUG interview](./TechWorks/OCRUGInterview.html) | Interview | Interviewee | | | 2019-11-06 | [BBSW](https://www.bbsw.org/) | [Software Engineering with Shiny](./TechWorks/BBSW_2019_program.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2019-01-24 | rstudio::conf | [Integrating React.js and Shiny](https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2019/integrating-react-js-and-shiny/) | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2018-12-17 | [Orange Combinator](https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/orange-combinator/events/lxvjrpyxqbwb/) | [Old School FP: A Common Lisp Experience Report](./TechWorks/2018-12-17-CommonLispOrangeCombinator.pdf) | Meetup | Presenter | | @@ -52,19 +52,19 @@ The role-labeled software history is in [Open Source](./OpenSource.md). [Copies | 2015-11-04 | [Øredev](https://archive.oredev.org/2015/2015.html) | [Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web](https://vimeo.com/144696304) | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2015-10-02 | [ClojureBridge](https://clojurebridge.org/) | ClojureBridge Durham | Workshop | Teaching assistant | Yoko Harada | | 2015-10-01 | No Starch Press | [Clojure for the Brave and True](https://www.braveclojure.com/), [foreword](./TechWorks/ClojureBraveTrueForeword.html) | Book | Foreword, technical editor | Daniel Higginbotham | -| 2015-04-20 | [Clojure/West](https://web.archive.org/web/20150325185906/http://clojurewest.org/) | [Boot Can Build It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnzB2tB-8Q), [slides](./TechWorks/2015-04-20_ClojureWestBoot.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | Micha Niskin | -| 2014-03-24 | [Clojure/West](https://web.archive.org/web/20141115162625/http://www.clojurewest.org/) | [Web Programming with Hoplon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVXjExRiFy0) | Presentation | Presenter | Micha Niskin | +| 2015-04-20 | [Clojure/West](https://web.archive.org/web/20150325185906id_/http://clojurewest.org/) | [Boot Can Build It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnzB2tB-8Q), [slides](./TechWorks/2015-04-20_ClojureWestBoot.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | Micha Niskin | +| 2014-03-24 | [Clojure/West](https://web.archive.org/web/20141115162625id_/http://www.clojurewest.org/) | [Web Programming with Hoplon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVXjExRiFy0) | Presentation | Presenter | Micha Niskin | | 2014-03-18 | [The Cognicast](https://www.cognitect.com/cognicast/) | [Episode 52](https://www.cognitect.com/cognicast/052-alan-dipert) | Interview | Interviewee | Craig Andera | | 2014-02-27 | TriClojure | [Hoplon](https://github.com/alandipert/triclojure-hoplon-deck) | Presentation | Presenter | Micha Niskin | -| 2013-11-14 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20131010003442/http://clojure-conj.org/) | [Gherkin, a Lisp 1 in Bash 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHTFo2Rf2w#t=28m55s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin) | Lightning talk | Presenter | | +| 2013-11-14 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20131010003442id_/http://clojure-conj.org/) | [Gherkin, a Lisp 1 in Bash 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHTFo2Rf2w#t=28m55s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin) | Lightning talk | Presenter | | | 2013-03-18 | Clojure/West | [FRP in ClojureScript with Javelin](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ClojureScript-Javelin), [slides](./TechWorks/Dipert-FRP_in_ClojureScript_with_Javelin.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2013-01-10 | [TriLUG](https://trilug.org/2012/11/27/jan-10-meeting-raspberry-pi/) | [An Introduction to Raspberry Pi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjpAHbB-Mg), [slides](./TechWorks/2013-01-10_RaspberryPi.pdf), [BerryCam](https://github.com/alandipert/berrycam) | Presentation | Presenter | Pete Soper, Clinton Dreisbach, Peter Reintjes | -| 2012-11-16 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20210919060939/http://2012.clojure-conj.org/) | [FRP in ClojureScript with Flapjax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaxF5RDdVRE#t=22m21s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/flapjax-demo), [demo](http://alandipert.github.io/flapjax-demo/) | Lightning talk | Presenter | | +| 2012-11-16 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20210919060939id_/http://2012.clojure-conj.org/) | [FRP in ClojureScript with Flapjax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaxF5RDdVRE#t=22m21s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/flapjax-demo), [demo](http://alandipert.github.io/flapjax-demo/) | Lightning talk | Presenter | | | 2012-10-06 | BarCamp Rochester 10 | [Your Own Compiler in 20 Minutes](./TechWorks/decks/barcamp-2012/index.html), [source](https://github.com/alandipert/barcamp2012-jsonscript) | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2012-07-19 | OSCON | [Computing with Clojure](./TechWorks/decks/oscon2012-clojure/index.html), [source](https://github.com/alandipert/oscon2012-clojure) | Workshop | Trainer | Clinton Dreisbach | | 2012-07-13 | Pluralsight | [Clojure Fundamentals - Part 1](https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/clojure-fundamentals-part-one) | Course | Trainer | Craig Andera | | 2012-03-16 | Clojure/West | [Programming with Values in Clojure](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Programming-with-Values-in-Clojure/), [slides](./TechWorks/Dipert-ProgrammingWithValues.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | | -| 2011-11-12 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20111023154311/http://clojure-conj.org/) | [Uberlisp, a Lisp for Arduino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSw3x0rVh88#t=18m30s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/wombat) | Lightning talk | Presenter | Jon Distad | +| 2011-11-12 | [Clojure/conj](https://web.archive.org/web/20111023154311id_/http://clojure-conj.org/) | [Uberlisp, a Lisp for Arduino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSw3x0rVh88#t=18m30s), [code](https://github.com/alandipert/wombat) | Lightning talk | Presenter | Jon Distad | | 2011-08-25 | The Ruby Hoedown V | Functional Programming with Ruby | Presentation | Presenter | | | 2009-12-11 | WWW | [Managing Code and Quality with Git and Testing](./TechWorks/decks/gitrubytesting/index.html) | Presentation | Presenter | Julio Capote | | 2009-09-03 | Rochester Hackers | [Scala, a Scalable Language](./TechWorks/2009-09-03-Scala-a-Scalable-Language.pdf) | Presentation | Presenter | | diff --git a/md/WellReadUndergrad.md b/md/WellReadUndergrad.md index fdfe756..0705fb8 100644 --- a/md/WellReadUndergrad.md +++ b/md/WellReadUndergrad.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ - Created Tuesday 17 November 2020 - Updated Tuesday 7 October 2025 -The following is adapted from a Word document titled [What Every Educated Person Should Know about Philosophy](./WellReadUndergrad/phil-lt5.doc). My dad [RandallRDipert](./RandallRDipert.md) created the document in 1998 while he was a philosophy professor at [West Point](https://www.westpoint.edu/). The document was later [available on his web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000919054115/http://www.neologic.net/rd/courses.htm), where he described it as: +The following is adapted from a Word document titled [What Every Educated Person Should Know about Philosophy](./WellReadUndergrad/phil-lt5.doc). My dad [RandallRDipert](./RandallRDipert.md) created the document in 1998 while he was a philosophy professor at [West Point](https://www.westpoint.edu/). The document was later [available on his web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000919054115id_/http://www.neologic.net/rd/courses.htm), where he described it as: > A list of books and articles, concepts, and quotations which I suggest every college graduate should know; also, extended to a graduate who is a philosophy major. A bit grandiose, overreaching, and pompous—but maybe suggestive of something useful. @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami - [Immanuel Kant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant) — ["Perpetual Peace"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace); ["What Is Enlightenment?"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Enlightenment%3F) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson) — [*Essays: First Series*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series) ("Friendship," "Nature," "Self-Reliance") - [Henry David Thoreau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau) — <span class="level-one">[*Walden*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden)</span>; <span class="level-one">[*Civil Disobedience*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau))</span> -- [Charles Sanders Peirce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce) — ["The Fixation of Belief"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fixation_of_Belief); "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" +- [Charles Sanders Peirce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce) — ["The Fixation of Belief"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce); "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" - [William Kingdon Clifford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford) — <span class="level-two">["The Ethics of Belief"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief)</span> -- [William James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James) — <span class="level-two">["The Will to Believe"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe)</span>; [*Pragmatism*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism_(book)); ["The Moral Equivalent of War"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Equivalent_of_War); ["The Pragmatic Theory of Truth"](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/) +- [William James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James) — <span class="level-two">["The Will to Believe"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe)</span>; [*Pragmatism*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism); ["The Moral Equivalent of War"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Equivalent_of_War); ["The Pragmatic Theory of Truth"](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/) - [Sigmund Freud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud) — [*The Interpretation of Dreams*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams); [*The Future of an Illusion*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_an_Illusion); [*Civilization and Its Discontents*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Discontents); [*Beyond the Pleasure Principle*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle) - [Bertrand Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell) — "A Free Man's Worship"; selections from [*Why I Am Not a Christian*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian) - [Isaiah Berlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin) — essays such as ["The Hedgehog and the Fox"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox) (in *Russian Thinkers*) @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami #### Ancient & Medieval -- [Plato](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato) — <span class="level-one">[*Apology*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato_dialogue))</span>; [*Crito*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crito); [*Phaedo*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedo); <span class="level-three">[*Republic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato))</span>; [*Symposium*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)); [*Phaedrus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)); [*Meno*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno); for majors: [*Euthyphro*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro); [*Theaetetus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaetetus_(dialogue)) +- [Plato](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato) — <span class="level-one">[*Apology*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato))</span>; [*Crito*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crito); [*Phaedo*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedo); <span class="level-three">[*Republic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato))</span>; [*Symposium*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)); [*Phaedrus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)); [*Meno*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno); for majors: [*Euthyphro*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro); [*Theaetetus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaetetus_(dialogue)) - [Aristotle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle) — <span class="level-three">[*Nicomachean Ethics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics)</span>; <span class="level-two">[*Poetics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle))</span>; key portions of the treatises for majors - [Epictetus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus) — <span class="level-two">[*Enchiridion*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchiridion_of_Epictetus)</span> - [Augustine of Hippo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo) — selections on free will and time; portions of [*Confessions*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine)) @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami - [John Locke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke) — [*An Essay Concerning Human Understanding*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding) (portions); <span class="level-two">[*Second Treatise of Government*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Treatise_of_Government)</span> - [Baruch Spinoza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza) — [*Ethics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza)) - [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz) — [*Discourse on Metaphysics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Metaphysics) -- [George Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley) — [*Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dialogues_between_Hylas_and_Phlonous); [*A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Human_Knowledge) +- [George Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley) — [*Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dialogues_Between_Hylas_and_Philonous); [*A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Human_Knowledge) - [David Hume](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume) — [*An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding) (parts); <span class="level-two">[*Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Religion)</span> - [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau) — [*The Social Contract*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract) - [Immanuel Kant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant) — <span class="level-two">[*Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwork_of_the_Metaphysics_of_Morals)</span>; ["Perpetual Peace"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace); ["What Is Enlightenment?"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Enlightenment%3F); <span class="level-two">[*Critique of Pure Reason*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason)</span> (or [*Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics)) @@ -75,19 +75,19 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami #### General Histories - [Bertrand Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell) — [*History of Western Philosophy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) (opinionated but readable) -- [Frederick Copleston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Copleston) — multi-volume [*History of Philosophy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copleston%27s_History_of_Philosophy) +- [Frederick Copleston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Copleston) — multi-volume [*History of Philosophy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Philosophy_(Copleston)) - [W.T. Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Jones) — multi-volume *History of Western Philosophy* -- [William Matson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Matson) — [*A New History of Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/newhistoryofphil0001mats) (lively, two volumes) +- William Matson — [*A New History of Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/newhistoryofphil0001mats) (lively, two volumes) - [Roger Scruton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton) — *A Short History of Modern Philosophy* -- [D.W. Hamlyn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Hamlyn) — *The Penguin History of Philosophy* +- [D.W. Hamlyn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hamlyn) — *The Penguin History of Philosophy* - [Robert C. Solomon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon) & Kathleen Higgins — [*A Passion for Wisdom*](https://archive.org/details/passionforwisdom00solo) - [Robert C. Solomon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon) et al. — [*A Short History of Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofph00solo) - [Anthony Kenny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kenny) — [*The Oxford History of Western Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryofw0000unse) and *The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy* -- [Samuel Enoch Stumpf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Enoch_Stumpf) — [*Socrates to Sartre and Beyond*](https://archive.org/details/socratestosartre0000stum) +- Samuel Enoch Stumpf — [*Socrates to Sartre and Beyond*](https://archive.org/details/socratestosartre0000stum) - [Matthew Stewart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Stewart_(philosopher)) — *The Truth About Everything* -- [Ben-Ami Sharfstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Ami_Shafstein) — *A Comparative History of World Philosophy* +- Ben-Ami Sharfstein — *A Comparative History of World Philosophy* - [Mary Warnock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warnock) — *Women Philosophers* (anthology) -- [A.J. Ayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ayer) & [Jane O'Grady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_O%27Grady) — *A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations* +- [A.J. Ayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ayer) & Jane O'Grady — *A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations* ### Twentieth-Century Themes @@ -99,19 +99,19 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami - [Richard B. Brandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Brandt) — <span class="level-two">*Ethical Theory*</span> (or comparable survey of metaethics and normative theory) #### Existentialism and Continental Thought -- [William Barrett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barrett_(author)) — *Irrational Man* +- [William Barrett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barrett_(philosopher)) — *Irrational Man* - [Robert C. Solomon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon) — [*The Passions*](https://archive.org/details/passionsphilosop0000solo); *The Existentialists*; [*Continental Philosophy Since 1750*](https://archive.org/details/continentalphilo0000solo) -- [L. Nathan Oaklander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Nathan_Oaklander) — [*Existentialist Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/existentialistph0000oakl) -- [Edmund Husserl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl) — representative phenomenology (e.g., [*Ideas I*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas:_General_Introduction_to_Pure_Phenomenology)) +- L. Nathan Oaklander — [*Existentialist Philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/existentialistph0000oakl) +- [Edmund Husserl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl) — representative phenomenology (e.g., *Ideas I*) - [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre) — selections from [*Existentialism Is a Humanism*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism_Is_a_Humanism) and [*Being and Nothingness*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness) - [Martin Heidegger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger) — essays such as "What Is a Thing?" - [Michel Foucault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault) — [*The Foucault Reader*](https://archive.org/details/foucaultreader0000fouc) (ed. Paul Rabinow) -- [David H. Richter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Richter) (ed.) — <span class="level-two">[*The Critical Tradition*](https://archive.org/details/criticaltraditio0000unse)</span> +- David H. Richter (ed.) — <span class="level-two">[*The Critical Tradition*](https://archive.org/details/criticaltraditio0000unse)</span> #### Analytic Philosophy - [Gottlob Frege](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege) — <span class="level-three">["On Sense and Reference"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_reference), introduction to [*Begriffsschrift*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begriffsschrift), "On Concept and Object," "On Function and Concept," "On Russell's Paradox"</span> - [Bertrand Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell) — ["On Denoting"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Denoting); essays on logical atomism in *Logic and Knowledge* -- [G.E. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore) — <span class="level-two">[*Principia Ethica*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Ethica)</span> (chapter 1); ["The Refutation of Idealism"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Refutation_of_Idealism) +- [G.E. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore) — <span class="level-two">[*Principia Ethica*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Ethica)</span> (chapter 1); "The Refutation of Idealism" - [A.J. Ayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ayer) — "The Principle of Verification"; "The Elimination of Metaphysics" - [Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein) — [*Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus); [*Blue and Brown Books*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_and_Brown_Books); [*Zettel*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettel_(Wittgenstein)); [*Philosophical Investigations*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations); [*On Certainty*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Certainty) - [Gilbert Ryle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Ryle) — ["Descartes' Myth"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine#The_Categories_Goof) @@ -144,16 +144,16 @@ A well-read undergraduate should ideally have read, or at least be somewhat fami #### Biographies and Intellectual Portraits - [Gay Wilson Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Wilson_Allen) — [*William James: A Biography*](https://archive.org/details/williamjamesbiog00alle) - [Ray Monk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Monk) — [*Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius*](https://archive.org/details/ludwigwittgenste00monk); *Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude* -- [Paul Levy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levy_(writer)) — *Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles* +- Paul Levy — *Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles* - [Ved Mehta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ved_Mehta) — *The Fly and the Fly Bottle* - [Paul Feyerabend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend) — [*Killing Time*](https://archive.org/details/killingtimeautob00feye) (autobiography) #### Logic and Philosophical Reasoning -- [Nicholas Falletta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Falletta) — *Paradoxicon* +- Nicholas Falletta — *Paradoxicon* - [Irving Copi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Copi) & [Carl Cohen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Cohen) — <span class="level-one">[*Introduction to Logic*](https://archive.org/details/introductiontolo0000copi)</span> - [Irving Copi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Copi) — *Symbolic Logic* - [Richard Jeffrey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Jeffrey) — *Formal Logic* -- [Harry Gensler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gensler) — [*Symbolic Logic*](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/) +- Harry Gensler — [*Symbolic Logic*](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/) - [George Boolos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boolos) & [Richard Jeffrey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Jeffrey) — [*Computability and Logic*](https://archive.org/details/computabilitylog0000bool) #### Philosophy of Religion