Study

Books

Required texts

Tamar Szabó Gendler’s Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature course. (Open access course Yale University)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, translated Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2000.

Blackburn, Simon. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, second edition. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Epictetus. The Handbook (The Encheiridion), translated by Nicholas White. Hackett Publishing, 1983.

Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Basic Books, 2006

Plato, Republic, trans. G.M.A. Grube and C.D.C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992.

Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Articles

Can we get human nature right? by Iris Berent 

Edited by Steven Pinker, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved August 19, 2021 (received for review May 5, 2021)

Courses

Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Human Nature and Human Diversity

Harvard College Human Nature (Gen Ed 1056)

Yale University Philosophy and Science of Human Nature

The Great Courses Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature

Degree programs

Academic Disciplines

Philosophy

Biology

Psychology

Sociology

Anthropology

Criminology

History

Fine Art

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