Aristotle's De motu animalium: Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essay (nonfiction) 1978

Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G. E. L. Owen [editor, with Malcolm Schofield] (nonfiction) 1982

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (nonfiction) 1986

Logic, Science, and Dialectic: Collected Papers in Greek Philosophy by G. E. L. Owen [editor] (nonfiction) 1986

Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions [co-author, with Amartya Sen] (nonfiction) 1987

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (essays) 1990

Essays on Aristotle's De anima [editor, with Amelie Oksenberg Rorty] (essays) 1992

Passions & Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum [editor, with Jacques Brunschwig] (nonfiction) 1993

The Quality of Life [editor, with Sen] (nonfiction) 1993

Virtue, Love & Form: Essays in Memory of Gregory Vlastos [editor, with Terence Irwin] (essays) 1993

The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (nonfiction) 1994

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (nonfiction) 1995

Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities [editor, with Jonathan Glover] (nonfiction) 1995

For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism [with respondents; edited by Joshua Cohen] (nonfiction) 1996

Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (nonfiction) 1997

Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature [editor, with David M. Estlund] (essays) 1997

Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning [editor, with Cass R. Sunstein] (essays) 1998

Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse [editor, with Saul M. Olyan] (nonfiction) 1998

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? [by Susan Moller Okin with respondents; edited by Nussbaum, Joshua Cohen, and Matthew Howard] (nonfiction) 1999

Sex and Social Justice (nonfiction) 1999

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (nonfiction) 2000

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (nonfiction) 2001

The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome [editor, with Juha Sihvola] (nonfiction) 2002

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (nonfiction) 2004