LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Subject: Philosophy

Philosophy OER Textbooks

Introduction to Philosophy (2022, Openstax, CC BY 4.0) NEW
Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology (2021, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Brian Barnett): chapters include epistemic justification; sources of knowledge; skepticism; epistemic value, duty, and virtue; epistemology, probability, and science; social epistemology; feminist epistemologies
An Introduction to Philosophy (BC Campus/Open Textbook Library)
An Introduction to Philosophy (SUNY/Creative Commons)
Modern Philosophy (BC Campus/Open Textbook Library)
Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy (Lake Superior College/Open Textbook Library)
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind (2019, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Heather Salazar): chapters include Descartes and substance dualism; behaviourism and materialism; functionalism; qualia; freedom of the will.
Free Philosophy E-Books: 135 Essential Works by Philosophers (Open Culture)
The Intelligent Troglodyte's Guide to Plato's Republic (Fort Hayes State/Open Textbook Library)
The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy (BC Campus)
Reading for Philosophical Inquiry: A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking (Lander College/Creative Commons)

Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetics (2021, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Valery Vinogradovs): chapters include ancient aesthetics; beauty in art and nature; the nature of art; art and emotions; art and morality; aesthetics and politics

Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics (2019, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. George Matthews): chapters include ethical relativism; divine command theory and natural law; ethical egoism and social contract theory; virtue ethics; utilitarianism; Kantian Deontology; feminist ethics; evolutionary ethics.
Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights (Open Textbook Library)
Ethics for A-Level (Open Textbook Library)

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic (2020, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Benjamin Martin): chapters include what is logic?; evaluating arguments; formal logic; informal fallacies; necessary and sufficient conditions.
An Introduction to Formal Logic (SUNY/Open Textbook Library)
A Concise Introduction to Logic (SUNY/Open Textbook Library)
Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation of Argument (Portland Community College/OER Commons)
Fundamental Methods of Logic (Open Textbook Library)
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (Lansing Community College/Open Textbook Library)
Logical Reasoning (CSU-Sacramento/Creative Commons)
Open Logic Project (Open Textbook Library)

Philosophy of Science (Ed. Eran Asoulin): chapters include empiricism; Popper’s conjectures and refutations; Kuhn’s normal and revolutionary science; the sociology of scientific knowledge; feminism and the philosophy of science; the problem of induction; explanation
Social and Political Philosophy (Eds. Sam Rocha and Douglas Giles): chapters include the ideal society; the state of nature and the modern state; human rights, liberty, and social justice; radical social theories

Argument Diagramming (Carnegie Mellon University)
This course is an introduction to exploring and understanding arguments by explaining what the parts of an argument are, how to break arguments into their parts and how to create diagrams to show how those parts relate to each other.
Logic and Proofs (Carnegie Mellon University)
Recognizing the correctness or incorrectness of steps is crucial to evaluate arguments critically. This skill is honed by working in two virtual labs: ProofLab, where one learns to construct complex arguments in a strategically guided way, and TruthLab, where the emphasis is on finding counterexamples systematically..
Moral and Political Philosophy (Saylor Academy)
This course will introduce you to the basic concepts and methods of moral and political philosophy. Its primary focus is on the development of moral reasoning skills and the application of those skills to contemporary social and political issues.
Environmental Ethics, Justice and World Views (Saylor Academy)
This course introduces the concept of environmental ethics, a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts traditionally applied to human behavior to address the entire natural world. The course outlines the history of environmental ethics, discusses the idea of environmental justice, and explores how our views about the natural world have changed over time.