Best Books on Philosophy as Optional subject for IAS Exam are as Follows:

Paper I Paper II

Section A - Problem of Section A - Western Philosophy

Philosophy

Section B - Logic Section B - Indian Philosophy

Section C - Ethics Section C - Social & Political

Philosophy

Section D - Philosophy of Religion

Paper I
Section A - Problem of Philosophy

1. Dr. C.D. Sharma (Indian Philosophy)

2. Dr. Deo Raj (Indian Philosophy)

3. Dr. Y.Masih (Western Philosophy)

4. Dr. Daya Krishna (Western Philosophy)

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5. Dr. Franckena Thilly (Western Philosophy)

6. Dr. B.K. Lal (Contemporary Western Philosophy)

7. Dr. D. M. Dutta (Contemporary Philosophy)

8. Dr. William F. Lawhead (The voyage of Discovery)

9. Dr. H. Gene Blocker (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

10. Dr. David Stewart (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

11.Dr. Chatterjee and Dhirendramohan Datta (Introduction to Indian

Philosophy)
 12. Dr. M. Hiriyanna (Uutlines of Indian Philosophy)

13. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (Indian Philosophy (II volumes))

14. Dr. P. T. Raju (Indian Philosophy)

Section B - Logic

1. Dr. Irvin M. Copi (Introduction to Logic)

2. Ashok Verma (Symbolic logic)

Section C - Ethics

1. Dr. Divakar Pathak (Indian Ethic)

2. Western Ethics: An Historical Introduction - Robert L. Arrington

3. An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) -

John Deigh

4. An Introduction to Ethics - William Lillie

5. William Samuel (Ethics)

Paper II
Section A - Western Philosophy

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1. By Franckena Thilly

2. Dr. C.D. Sharma

3. Dr. Y.Masih

4. Dr. B.K. Lal

5. Dr. Lakshmi Saxena

6. Daya Krishna

7. D.M.Dutt
Section B - Indian Philosophy

1. Dr. C.D. Sharma

2. Dr. Deo Raj

3. Dr. Hiriyanna

4. Dr. Radha Krishnan

5. Dhirendramohan Datta

Section C - Social & Political Philosophy

1. Dr. J.P. Sood Vol IV

2. Dr. Shiv Bhanu Singh

3. Dr. O.P.Gauba

4. NCERT Books

Section D - Philosophy of Religion

1. Dr. Y.Masih

2. John H.Hick

3. A.R. Mohapatra