顾琼雯主编的《西方哲学史（留园西方经典文化阅读英文版）》以古代哲学、中古哲学和近代哲学为结构框架，重点介绍了苏格拉底、柏拉图、亚里士多德、康德、黑格尔、尼采、萨特等15位哲学家的思想及重要作品导读，旨在通过介绍哲学家对哲学问题的不同解答方式及其对后世的影响，引导学生发问、思考及推理，鼓励他们了解哲学家们的思想差异，进而激发学生们进行批评思维，积极有效地展现自我意识。

Chapter 1 Socrates
Historical Background Who Was Socrates?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 A Taste of Plato's Socratic Dialogues
Topic 2 The Art of Discourse
Topic 3 A Divine Voice
Topic 4 The Right Insight Leads to the Right Action
Further Reading Plato's Socratic Dialogues
Pre-Socratic Thinkers
After-class Assignment
Chapter 2 Plato
Historical Background Who Was Plato?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Eternally True, Eternally Beautiful, and Eternally Good
Topic 2 The World of Ideas
Topic 3 True Knowledge
Topic 4 Out of the Darkness of the Cave
Topic 5 The Philosophic State
Further Reading Plato's Birth and Family
Influence on Plato
Plato's Dialogues
Introduction to the Republic
After-class Assignment
Chapter 3 Aristotle
Historical Background Who Was Aristotle?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 No Innate Idea
Topic 2 The Form of a Thing Is Its Specific Characteristics
Topic 3 Logic
Further Reading Aristotle's Life
After-class Assignment
Chapter 4 Rene Descartes
Historical Background Who Was Rene Descartes?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Certain Knowledge
Topic 2 The Perfect Entity
Topic 3 Dualism
Further Reading Rene Descartes' Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 5 David Hume
Historical Background Who Was David Hume?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Impressions and Ideas
Topic 2 Perception
Topic 3 Causality
Further Reading David Hume's Life and Work
After-class Assignment
Chapter 6 Immanuel Kant
Historical Background Who Was Immanuel Kant?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 How to Perceive the World
Topic 2 The Existence of God and Reason
Topic 3 The Starry Heavens Above Me and the Moral Law Within Me
Further Reading Immanuel Kant's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 7 John Locke
Historical Background Who Was John Locke?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Empiricism
Topic 2 Our Perception of the World
Topic 3 Locke's Political Philosophy
Further Reading John Locke's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 8 Thomas Hobbes
Historical Background Who Was Thomas Hobbes?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 The State of Nature
Topic 2 The State of Nature Is a State of War
Topic 3 The Leviathan
Further Reading Thomas Hobbers' Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 9 Georg W. F. Hegel
Historical Background Who Was Georg W. F. Hegel?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 World Spirit
Topic 2 The Dialectic
Topic 3 World Spirit
Further Reading Georg W. F. Hegel's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 10 Karl Marx
Historical Background Who Was Karl Marx?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Turning Point
Topic 2 Marx's Historical Materialism and Class Struggle
Topic 3 Alienation
Further Reading Karl Marx's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 11 Friedrich Nietzsche
Historical Background Who Was Friedrich Nietzsche?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 God Is Dead
Topic 2 After the "Death of God
Topic 3 Superman and Master-slave Morality
Further Reading Friedrich Nietzsche's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 12 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Bewitchment by Language
Topic 2 No Private Language
Further Reading Ludwig Wittgenstein's Life
After-class Assignment
Chapter 13 Hannah Arendt
Historical Background Who Was Hannah Arendt?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Totalitarianism
Topic 2 Banality of Evil
Topic 3 Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Topic 4 Citizenship, Agency, and Collective Identity
Further Reading Hannah Arendt's Life and Works
After-class Assignment
Chapter 14 Jean-Paul Sartre
Historical Background Who Was Jean-Paul Sartre?
Reflective Reading Topic 1 Freedom
Topic 2 Existentialism Is a Humanism
Topic 3 Absurdi