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Table of Contents of Philosophers & Their Work

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Thomas Aquinas

René Descartes

Immanuel Kant

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Martin Heidegger

Philosophers

Great Thinkers A-Z by Julian Baggini (Editor); Jeremy Stangroom (Editor) Great Thinkers, A-Z brings together 100 short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkers-such as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and Freud-who have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, A-Z is the ideal book for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought. Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno
ISBN: 9780826467423

Publication Date: 2004-06-15
Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion by Bernard J. Verkamp This title addresses and examines the religious affiliations and beliefs of prominent contemporary philosophers. The author profiles 150 such philosophers in separate entries, providing biographical information on his subjects, as well as on their religious upbringing, practice and beliefs.
ISBN: 9780786432868

Publication Date: 2008-08-13
The American Philosophers, Volume XXVIII by Howard K. Wettstein (Editor); Peter A. French (Editor)
Call Number: B851.A435 2004

ISBN: 1405119241

Publication Date: 2004-08-27
Eight Women Philosophers by Jane Duran
Call Number: B105.W6 D87 2006

ISBN: 9780252030222

Publication Date: 2005-10-19
African-American Philosophers by George Yancy (Editor)
Call Number: B944.A37 A37 1998

ISBN: 0415921007

Publication Date: 1998-10-06
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World by Ian P. McGreal
Call Number: B5005 .G74 1995

ISBN: 9780062700858

Publication Date: 1995-07-01

Socrates

The Philosophy of Socrates by Gregory Vlastos (Editor)
Call Number: B317 .V55 1980

ISBN: 9780268015404

Publication Date: 1980-04-01
A Companion to Socrates by Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Editor); Rachana Kamtekar (Editor); Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781405154581

Publication Date: 2008

Plato

The Oxford Handbook of Plato by Gail Fine (Editor)
The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut (Editor) Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also analyses of the intellectual and social background of his thought, the development of his philosophy throughout his career, the range of alternative approaches to his work, and the stylometry of his writing.
ISBN: 0521430186

Publication Date: 1992-10-30
Symposium by Plato; Paul Woodruff (Translator); Alexander Nehamas (Translator) A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly opinion. --S. G. Nugent, Princeton University
Call Number: B385.A5 N44 1989

ISBN: 0872200779

Publication Date: 1989-05-01
The Republic by Plató
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781503379985

Publication Date: 2014

Aristotle

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes (Editor) Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of the central philosophical concerns in his work. Approaches and methods vary and the volume editor has not imposed any single interpretation, but has rather allowed legitimate differences of interpretation to stand. An introductory chapter provides an account of Aristotle's life, and then guides the reader through the complex subject of what Aristotle actually wrote as a basis for characterising his philosophical development. Subsequent chapters cover Aristotle's writings on logic, metaphysics, science, psychology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and poetics. It is a basic assumption of the Companion that its readers will not know Greek.
ISBN: 0521411335

Publication Date: 1995-01-27
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Aristotle; Robert Bartlett; Susan D. Collins (Translator) The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics--that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence--found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called "the Philosopher." Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle's thought, Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins have produced here an English-language translation of the Ethics that is as remarkably faithful to the original as it is graceful in its rendering. Aristotle is well known for the precision with which he chooses his words, and in this elegant translation his work has found its ideal match. Bartlett and Collins provide copious notes and a glossary providing context and further explanation for students, as well as an introduction and a substantial interpretive essay that sketch central arguments of the work and the seminal place of Aristotle's Ethics in his political philosophy as a whole. The Nicomachean Ethics has engaged the serious interest of readers across centuries and civilizations--of peoples ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish--and this new edition will take its place as the standard English-language translation.
Call Number: B430.A5 B37 2011

ISBN: 9780226026749

Publication Date: 2011-06-01
Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1 by Aristotle; Jonathan Barnes (Editor); Aristotle; Jonathan Barnes (Editor) The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers.
ISBN: 9781400835843

Publication Date: 2014-09-01
Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2 by Aristotle; Jonathan Barnes (Editor) The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers.
ISBN: 9781400835850

Publication Date: 2014-09-01

St. Augustine of Hippo

Confessions by Saint Augustine (Text by) One of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition recalls crucial events in the author's life: his mid-4th-century origins in rural Algeria; the rise to a lavish lifestyle at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage; and recovery of his Catholic faith.
Call Number: BR65.A6 E51 2002

ISBN: 9781591094005

Publication Date: 2009-05-01
The soliloquies of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo, translation and notes by Thomas F. Gilligan ; introduction by Robert P. Russell.
Call Number: BR65 .A87 1943

Publication Date: 1943
Sermons: 1-19 on the Old Testament by Saint Augustine; Edmund Hill (Translator); Matthew O'Connell (Translator); Michele Pellegrino (Introduction by); John E. Rotelle (Editor) In this series New City Press, in conjuction with the Augustinian Heritage Institute, will provide the complete works of Saint Augustine for the first time in the English language. New translations, introductions and notes by renowned Augustinian scholars.
Call Number: BR65.A84 E53 1990

ISBN: 9780911782752

Publication Date: 1991-05-25
Basic Writings of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo, edited, with an introduction and notes by Whitney J. Oates
Call Number: BR65.A52 E6 1948

Publication Date: 1948

St. Thomas Aquinas

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas by Norman Kretzmann (Editor); Eleonore Stump (Editor) Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.
Call Number: 765.T54 C29 1993

ISBN: 0521437695

Publication Date: 1993-05-28
Summa Theologica by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Call Number: BX1749 .T5 1947 (Reference Collection)

Publication Date: 1947-48

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René Descartes

A Companion to Descartes by Janet Broughton (Editor); John Carriero (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780470765845

Publication Date: 2008
Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus by Stanley Tweyman (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780203417621

Publication Date: 2013
Descartes: the World and Other Writings by René Descartes; Stephen Gaukroger (Editor)
ISBN: 9780511150289

Publication Date: 1998

Immanuel Kant

Introduction to Logic by Immanuel Kant
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781504022712

Publication Date: 2015
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Immanuel Kant; Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Translator)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781775567066

Publication Date: 2009
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Allen W. Wood (Editor); Immanuel Kant
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780300235722

Publication Date: 2018
Kant by Lewis White Beck
Call Number: JX1946 .K3 1957

ISBN: 0023077506

Publication Date: 1957-01-01

Friedrich Nietzsche

A Companion to Nietzsche by Keith Ansell-Pearson (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781405153096

Publication Date: 2008
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche; Thomas Common (Translator)
Call Number: B3313.A43 L6

ISBN: 9781877527852

Publication Date: 2009-01-01

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein; Rush Rhees (Editor); Raymond Hargreaves (Editor); Roger White (Editor); Maximilian A. E. Aue (Translator) When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: "The theories contained in this new work . . . are novel, very original and indubitably important. Whether they are true, I do not know. As a logician who likes simplicity, I should like to think that they are not, but from what I have read of them I am quite sure that he ought to have an opportunity to work them out, since, when completed, they may easily prove to constitute a whole new philosophy." "[Philosophical Remarks] contains the seeds of Wittgenstein's later philosophy of mind and of mathematics. Principally, he here discusses the role of indispensable in language, criticizing Russell's The Analysis of Mind. He modifies the Tractatus's picture theory of meaning by stressing that the connection between the proposition and reality is not found in the picture itself. He analyzes generality in and out of mathematics, and the notions of proof and experiment. He formulates a pain/private-language argument and discusses both behaviorism and the verifiability principle. The work is difficult but important, and it belongs in every philosophy collection."--Robert Hoffman, Philosophy "Any serious student of Wittgenstein's work will want to study his Philosophical Remarks as a transitional book between his two great masterpieces. The Remarks is thus indispensible for anyone who seeks a complete understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy."--Leonard Linsky, American Philosophical Association
Call Number: B3376.W563 P513 1980

ISBN: 0226904318

Publication Date: 1980-10-15
Philosophical Grammar by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Rush Rhees (Editor); Anthony Kenny (Translator) In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.
Call Number: B3376.W563 P5261 2005

ISBN: 0520245024

Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Culture and Value by Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein Peter Finch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference."It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related 'remarks' which he kept in notebooks throughout his life. The editor of this collection has gone through these notebooks in order to select those 'remarks' which deal with Wittgenstein's views abou the less technical issues in his philosophy. So here we have Wittgenstein's thoughts about religion, music, architecture, the nature of philosophy, the spirit of our times, genius, being Jewish, and so on. The work is a masterpiece by a mastermind."-Leonard Linsky
Call Number: B3376.W561 W7413

ISBN: 0226904326

Publication Date: 1980-11-01
The Voices of Wittgenstein by Friedrich Waismann; Gordon Baker (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780203412022

Publication Date: 2003-10-04

Martin Heidegger

A Companion to Heidegger by Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor); Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780470997246

Publication Date: 2008
Heidegger by Martin Heidegger; David F. Krell (Editor)
Call Number: B3279.H47 E5 1977

ISBN: 0060638451

Publication Date: 1977-06-01
What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger "For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker's late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books."--Hannah Arendt
Call Number: BF455 .H4213

ISBN: 9780060905286

Publication Date: 1976-03-12
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger; Albert Hofatadter (Translator) "In Albert Hofstadter's excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains... the ontological difference." -- Hubert L. Dreyfus, Times Literary Supplement
Call Number: B3279.H48 G7813

ISBN: 9780253176875

Publication Date: 1982-10-01
History of the Concept of Time by Martin Heidegger; Theodore Kisiel (Translator)
Call Number: B3279.H48 P7613 1985

ISBN: 0253328349

Publication Date: 1985-04-01

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