Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL3116: Reality, Existence and Change

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Lloyd, G.E.R. (1970) Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. Norton (New York, London)

Collingwood, R.G. (1945) The Idea of Nature OUP (Oxford)

Woolhouse, R.S. (1993), Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics. Routledge (London, New York)

Rescher, N. (2000), Process Philosophy: A survey of Basic Issues. University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh)

 

Selections from…

Spinoza’ Ethics (1996) Penguin Classics translated by Edwin Curley

Leibniz (1992) Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays: Translated and Edited by Garber, D. and Ariew, R. Hackett (Indianapolis)

Whitehead, A.N. (1946) Science and the Modern World, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)