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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, begun 1266.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Part I, Gutenberg e-text edition

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Modern Library College Edition, ed. Anton C. Pegis, New York, 1948, Random House

 

D.E. Allen, The Naturalist in Britain: a social history, London, 1976

Henry E Allison, "Spontaneity and Autonomy in Kant's Conception of the Self" in Ameriks and Sturma, 1995

Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma (eds) The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the self in Classical German Philosophy, New York, 1995, State University of New York Press

F. Amrine and F.J. Zucker, and H. Wheeler Goethe and the Sciences, Dordrecht 1987 *

F.H. Anderson (ed.), The New Organon and Related Writings [of Francis Bacon], New York, 1960.

Garland Allen, Life Science in the Twentieth Century Cambridge. (UK Ed.) 1978 CUP

 

 

Agnes Arber, The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form Cambridge 1950 *

Aristotle, The Works of Aristotle, edited by W.D.Ross, Oxford, 1908, Clarendon.

Aristotle, Metaphysics, see The Works of Aristotle, Volume VIII

The incomparable Aristotle, Parts of Animals (Loeb Edition) London 1968 Heinemann

Augustine, Confessions, written c. 400, English Translation E.B.Pusey, Everyman edition, London etc, 1907, Dent

Augustine, 413-427 , The City of God.

J.L. Austin, Philosophical Papers, Oxford, 1979, OUP

A.J. Ayer, 'Freedom and Necessity', 1969, reprinted in .

Michael Ayers, Locke, London, 1991, Routledge (in 2 vols)

Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, The Works of Lord Bacon, Moral and Historical, Ed Anon, London, undated, Ward, Lock, and Co. First published 1605, London.

Derek Baker (ed), Studies in Church History 10: Sanctity and Secularity: the Church and the World, Oxford, 1973, Blackwell

Thomas Baldwin, The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945, Cambridge, 2003, CUP, 0 521 50104 x

Donald L.M. Baxter, "Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World", in Saul Traiger (ed), Hume's Treatise.

Bennett, Jonathan, Kant's Analytic, Cambridge, 1966, CUP

Boethius, c. 524AD, The Consolation of Philosophy

P.J. Bowler, The Environmental Sciences, London, 1992, Fontana

C.M.Bowra , The Greek Experience, New York, 1969, Praeger, 1st pub. 1957

Michael Boylan, Method & Practice in Aristotle's Biology, Washington, 1983, University Press of America

Robert Boyle, Selected Philosophical Papers, ed M.A.Stewart, Manchester, 1979, Manchester University Press

William H.Brock, The Fontana History of Chemistry, London, 1992, Fontana

Isis Brook: "Reading Landscape: The practice of Goethean Science", tba

Richard W. Burkhardt, Jnr The Spirit of System: Lamarck & Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Mass. 1977, Harvard University Press

Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, London 1957 Bell & Hyman (2nd ed)

S.R. Cajal, Histologia del sistema nervioso, Moya, Madrid, 1899

Noel Charlton, Understanding Gregory Bateson, Albany, 2008, SUNY

Cohen, S. Marc, "Aristotle's Metaphysics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

William Coleman, George Cuvier, Zoologist, Cambridge Mass., 1964, Harvard University Press

William Coleman, Biology in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge (UK Ed.) 1977 CUP

Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive, 1st published 1830-42.

Auguste Comte, The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte (Abridged translation of Comte's Cours de philosophie positive, by Harriet Martineau, ed. & trans.) London, MDCCCLIII, Chapman.

Etext, thanks to McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Another condensed translation: The Essential Comte. Ed. Stanislav Andreski. Trans. Margaret Clarke. London, 1974, Croom Helm

John Cottingham, Descartes, Oxford, 1986, Blackwell

A.C. Crombie, Augustine to Galileo. (2nd Ed.) London 1959 Heinemann

A. Cunningham and N. Jardine (eds), Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge 1970 CUP

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. Indianapolis (edition translated by R,N. Schwab) 1751 Bobbs-Merrill

René Descartes, Discours de la méthode, 1st published 1637; in English appears as Discourse on method, in many editions.

Descartes: The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, Cambridge, 1985, CUP

Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, 1st published 1644. See Cottingham.

Allen G. Debus, Man & Nature in the Renaissance, Cambridge, 1978, CUP

Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity, New York, 1991 (1st published in French in 1953)

Jean Delumeau, Sin & Fear, New York, 1990, St.Martin's Press (English translation; 1st published in French, 1983)

Emile Durkheim, On Suicide, Ist pub. 1897, English translation Robin Buss, London, 2006, Penguin.

Umberto Ecco, Art and Beauty, 1st published in Italian in 1959, English translation, New Haven and London, 1986, Yale University Press

Fredrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, 1880. Marx/Engels Archive

Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, Reason and Responsibility, Stamford, 2002, ISBN 0 534 57352 5

Lewis S. Feuer (ed), Marx and Engels - Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, Fontana edition, London, 1969, Collins

Antony Flew (ed), Logic and Language (First Series), Oxford, 1968, Blackwell

Jerry A Fodor, Hume Variations, Oxford, 2003, OUP

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, London, 1970, Tavistock (UK Ed)

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish, (Penguin UK Ed) London 1991 Penguin

Mark Francis, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, Stocksfield, 2007, Acumen

Galileo, The Assayer, 1623. Translations by Stillman Drake, in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 1957, New York, Doubleday

Galileo, Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences, 1638; English Translation by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio, Macmillan, 1914; on-line presentation thanks to Michael Fowler.

Charles Coulston Gillespie, Science & Polity in France at the end of the Old Regime. Princeton 1980 Princeton University Press

Glacken,Clarence J., Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Berkeley, 1976 (Paperback), University of California Press.

Goethe J.W., Readings in Goethean Science. (Goethean texts ed. H.H. Koepf & L.S.Jolly) 1978 Rhode Island

Golgi, C. (1885). 'Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervosa',Revista sperimentale di Freniatria. Reprinted in: Golgi, C. Opera Omnia. Milano, 1903, Hoepli

J.C.B. Gosling, Plato, London, 1973, Routledge

J.Gracia and T.Noone (eds) A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 2003, Blackwell, Oxford

Michael Grant, The World of Rome, London, 1960, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

E. Grant, Much Ado About Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge, 1981, Cambridge University Press.

George Grote, "Review of the Work of John Stuart Mill Enitled 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy' " Reprinted from the Westminster Review, Jan 1st, 1866. etext by Gutenberg.

Paul Guyer, The Cambridge Companion to Kant, Cambridge, 1992, CUP

A.Rupert Hall, The Revolution in Science 1500-1750. (Revised Ed.) London 1983 Longman

Thomas L. Hankins, Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge 1985 CUP

G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A.V.Miller, Oxford, 1977, OUP, first published in German, 1807.

D.P.Henry, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, London, 1972, Hutchinson

M. J. S. Hodge, "The development of the philosophy of science since 1900." in Olby et al., op cit

Stephen Houlgate, The Hegel Reader, Oxford, 1998, Blackwell

Robert Hooke, Micrographica. London 1665

Hookyaas, R., Religion and the Rise of Modern Science, Edinburgh. (p/b ed.) 1973, Scottish Academic Press

J.Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (First published 1924) Penguin edition, Harmondsworth, 1965

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature. First published 1738. Page references are to Everyman edition, London, 1911, Dent

Susan James, Passion and Action, Oxford, 1997, Clarendon

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, Gutenberg edition, translation by J. M. D. Meiklejohn eeditor Charles Aldarondo

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Norman Kemp Smith, Abridged Edition, London, 1961, Macmillan.

NKS (Abridged) edition, eeditor Charles Aldarondo

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement , translation by James Creed Meredith, Oxford, 1928/1952, Clarendon. E-text courtesy The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection. First published in German, 1790.

Anthony Kenny, Descartes, Bristol, 1995, Thoemmes, 1st published 1968

Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Mind, London and New York, 1994, Routledge, 1st published 1993

Anthony Kenny, Ancient Philosophy, Volume 1 of A New History of Western Philosophy, Oxford, 2004, OUP

Anthony Kenny, Medieval Philosophy, Volume 2 of A New History of Western Philosophy, Oxford, 2005, OUP

Anthony Kenny, The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Volume 3 of A New History of Western Philosophy, Oxford, 2006, OUP

William Kneale and Martha Kneale, The Development of Logic, Oxford, 1962, Clarendon

T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, 1962, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-45808-3

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324, trans. Barbara Bray, London, , 1978, Scolar Press.

Leibniz, G.W., New Essays on Human Understanding, 1st published 1765, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy edition edited by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett, Cambridge, 1996, CUP

C.S.Lewis, The Discarded Image, Cambridge, 1994, CUP

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. (Everyman Ed.) London (1690) 1961 Dent

Timothy Lenoir, The Strategy of Life, Dordrecht, 1982, Reidel

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being, Cambridge, Mass. 1936 Harvard University Press

George R. Lucas (ed), Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy, New York, 1986, SUNY, ISBN 0887061443

John Marenbon, Routledge History of Philosophy, iii: Medieval Philosophy 1998, London, Routledge

Marx and Engels - Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, Lewis S. Feuer (ed), Fontana edition, London, 1969, Collins

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Holy Family, 1845. Marx/Engels Archive.

Raymond Martin and John Barresi, Naturalization of the Soul, London etc, 2000, Routledge

Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought. Cambridge, Mass 1982 Harvard University Press

David Melling, Understanding Plato, Oxford, 1987, OUP

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, New York, 1980, Harper Row.

J.S. Mill, Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. [e-text at Adelaide]. Vol IX ofCollected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. J.M. Robson.

J.S.Mill, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. J.M. Robson, Toronto, 1963-1991, University of Toronto Press (also London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), 33 vols.

J.S. Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism, Michigan, 1961, Ann Arbor Paperback Edition

G.E.Moore, Ethics, London, 1912, Williams and Norgate, e-text

A.G Morton, History of Botanical Science. London 1981 Academic Press

E Nagel, The Structure of Science, London, 1961, Routledge and Kegan Paul

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Harmondsworth, 1973, Penguin, 1st published in German, 1886

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Helen Zimmern, e-text

H.B. Nisbet, Goethe and the Scientific Tradition, London, 1972, University of London.

D.J. O'Connor, Free Will, New York, 1971, Anchor Books

R. C. Olby and G. N. Cantor, Companion to the History of Modern Science London 1990 Routledge

Dov Ospovat The Development of Darwin's Theory Cambridge 1981 CUP

John Passmore, Man's Responsibility for Nature London 1974 Duckworth

David Pears, Hume's System, Oxford, 1990, OUP.

R.B.Pippin, Hegel's Idealism, Cambridge, 1989, CUP

Val Plumwood, Feminism & the Master of Nature, London, 1993, Routledge.

Vernon Pratt, "Aristotle & the essence of natural history", 1982.

Vernon Pratt, Thinking Machines: The Evolution of Artifical Intelligence, Oxford, 1987, Blackwell.

H.H.Price, Hume's Theory of the External World, Oxford, 1940, Clarendon Press

T.J. Reed, Goethe, Oxford, 1984, OUP.

Philip F. Rehbock, The Philosophical Naturalists. Madison 1983 U. of Wisconsin Press

Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate (Penguin UK Ed.) 1990 Penguin

Shirley Roe, Matter, Life and Generation: 18th C. Embryology. Cambridge 1981 CUP

G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (eds), The Ferment of Knowledge. Cambridge 1980 CUP

Martin S.J. Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy. Chicago 1985 U. of Chicago Press

Nicholas Rupke, Vivisection in historical perspective London 1990 Routledge

E.S. Russell, Form and Function London 1916.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, first published as Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung in 1819, Dover edition translated from the German by E.F.J.Payne, New York, 1966, Dover.

Cecil J. Schneer, Towards a History of Geology. Cambridge, Mass 1969 MIT Press

Roger Scruton: A Short History of Modern Philosophy, London, 1984, Routledge

Roger Scruton, Kant, Oxford, 1982, OUP

James Serpell, In the Company of Animals, Oxford, 1985, Blackwell

Philip Sherrard, "The Desanctification of Nature", in Derek Baker (ed), Studies in Church History 10: Sanctity and Secularity: the Church and the World, Oxford, 1973, Blackwell

John W. Shirley and F. David Hoeniger (eds), Science & the Arts in the Renaissance Cranbury, N.J. 1985 Associated University Presses

Phillip R. Sloan, "Natural History" in Olby et al. (eds), Companion to the History of Modern Science.

Roger Smith, Trial by Medicine Edinburgh 1981 Edinburgh University Press.

Roger Smith, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences, London, 1997, Fontana.

Jean Starobinski, Action and Reaction, English edition, New York, 2003, Zone Books. 1st published in French, 1999.

Barry Stroud, Hume, London, 1977, Routledge and Kegan Paul

P.F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense, London, 1966, Methuen

Torbjörn Tännsjö, Understanding Ethics, 2nd Edition, Edinburgh, 2008, Edinburgh UP

R. Taylor, Metaphysics, Englewood Cliffs, 1963, Prentice-Hall.

Charles Taylor: Hegel Cambridge 1975 CUP.

Charles Taylor, The Sources of the Self, Cambridge, 1989, CUP

William Temple, The Nature of Personality, London, 1911, Macmillan & Co. Ltd

Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World, London 1983 Allen Lane

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form, Cambridge, 1917 *

Saul Traiger (ed), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Malden USA etc, 2006, Blackwell

Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel, Harmondsworth, 1956, Peregrine. (No publication date given; date taken from the Preface. Usually it's given as 1957.)

Richard S. Westfall, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Michigan (p/p ed.) 1973 Michigan University Press

Richard S. Westfall, The Construction of Modern Science, Cambridge 1977 (UK ed.) CUP

James E White, Introduction to Philosophy, 1989, Wadsworth, Belmont, ISBN:  9780314481504

Lynn White, "The historical roots of our ecologic crisis" in Science, Vol 155: No 3767 (March 1967) pp 1203-1207

Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selbourne.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, English translation by D.F.Pears and B.F. McGuiness, London, 1961, Routledge and Kegan Paul; originally published 1921.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Oxford, 2001, Blackwell, First Published 1953.

Roger Woolhouse, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, London, 1993, Routledge, 0-415-09021-0

Aram Vartanian, La Mettrie's "L'Homme Machine", Princeton, 1960, Princeton UP

Frances Yates, (1966) The Art of Memory, London, 1966, Routledge and Kegan Paul.


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