Here are a few of the most influential and accessible papers on philosophy of the 20th century, if people are interested in that sort of thing
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"Sense and Reference" by Gottlob Frege. Probably spawned the entire field of analytic philosophy of language home.sandiego.edu/~baber/metaphy
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"On Denoting" by Bertrand Russell is probably almost as influential as the Frege paper (although a little bit more difficult in my opinion) uvm.edu/~lderosse/cour
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"How To Do Things With Words" by J.L. Austin probably spawned the entire field of sociolinguistics (or at least is foundational) uccstuff.com/FALL2003/j-l-a
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"Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" by Edmund Gettier is the paper that spawned a million more papers www-bcf.usc.edu/~kleinsch/Gett