Books
Books by site contributors
David Livingstone Smith
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith, Timothy Andrés Pabon, et al.
How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism Reprint Edition by David Livingstone Smith (Editor)
The Most Dangerous Animal Paperback – February 17, 2009 by David Smith (Author)
Arguing About Human Nature: Contemporary Debates (Arguing About Philosophy) 1st Edition by Stephen M. Downes (Editor), Edouard Machery (Editor)
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.
Books on my reading list
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst By Robert Sapolsky
Why We Disagree About Human Nature 1st Edition
by Elizabeth Hannon (Editor), Tim Lewens (Editor)
What’s Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive
Account of a Contested Concept by Maria Kronfeldner (Author)
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