Although it is not the purpose of this Church to enforce the adoption of a specific philosophical framework, many of our most important ideas do have intellectual predecessors. I include this short list for now, with the understanding that the purpose of this section is to spur conversation and we will add to these resources as the community develops its thought.
Epistemology
Burge, Tyler. Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection: Philosophical Essays, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Burge, Tyler. “Content Preservation.” The Philosophical Review 102, no. 4 (October 1993): 457–488.
Burge, Tyler. “Individualism and the Mental.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4, no. 1 (September 1979): 73–122.
Burge, Tyler. “Perceptual Entitlement.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67, no. 3 (November 2003): 503–548.
Metaethics
Copp, David. Morality, Normativity, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Copp, David. “Moral Naturalism and Three Grades of Normativity.” In Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics, 249–83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Copp, David. “The Idea of a Moral Proposition.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 71, no. 1 (1997): 1–23.
Copp, David. “Realist-Expressivism: A Neglected Option for Moral Realism.” Social Philosophy and Policy 18, no. 2 (June 2001): 1–43.
Copp, David. Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Political Philosophy
Bookchin, Murray. The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. Revised ed. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2005.
Bookchin, Murray. “From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism.” In The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship, 233–76. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1987.
Bookchin, Murray. The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy. Edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor. London: Verso, 2015.
Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. Athens, OH: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 1954.
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. London: Marion Boyars, 1973.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.
Lewis, Sophie. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. London: Verso, 2022.
Pateman, Carole. The Sexual Contract. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. 2nd ed. Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Introduction by Fred Block. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
Weil, Simone. The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind. Translated by Arthur Wills. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952.
Queerness, Neurodivergence, and the Neuroqueer Synthesis
Ahmed, S. Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006
The Neuroqueer Series (Ed. Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu). Autonomous Press.
Butler, J. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Halberstam, J. The queer art of failure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.
Sedgwick, E. K. Epistemology of the closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990
Walker, Nick. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities. Autonomous Press, 2021.
Warner, M. (Ed.). Fear of a queer planet: Queer politics and social theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Yergeau, M. Remi. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke University Press, 2018.