Updated 16 September 2018
Philosophy’s Parts – 164 Titles
BC/Reason, Rationality, Logic BD/Formal Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology
BC50.F63 1978 Fogelin, Robert J. Understanding arguments: an introduction to formal logic. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978. xii, 351p., drawings, diagrams. Index. #11556 1.70
BC91.M54 bk.6 1965 Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. A system of locic, Book VI: On the logic of the moral sciences. Edited, with an introduction by Hanry M. Magid. The Bobbs-Merrill Company: The Library of Liberal Arts, c1965; first published 1843. xxviii, 187p. Selected Bibliography p.xxvi. Appendices A-F p.151-180. Biographical Notes p.181-184. Index. Text based on the 8th edition, 1872. #11546 .25
BC91.R47 1980 Rescher, Nicholas. Induction: an essay on the justification of inductive reasoning. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. xiii, 225p.. bibliographical footnotes. Indexes. #7427 .55
BC108.J45 1957 Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882. Elementary lessons in logic: deductive and inductive. With copious questions and examples and a vocabulary of logical terms. Macmillan & Co.: St. Martin’s Press, 1957 c1870. 340p., diagrams. Questions and Exercises p.296-331. Index and Concise Vocabulary p.332-340. #11180 3.20
BC108.R8 1954 Ruby, Lionel. The art of making sense: a guide to logical thinking. J.B. Lippincott Company, c1954. 286p., diagrams. Index. #11476 .25
BC108.S72 1966 Smith, Vincent Edward. Éléments de logique. Traduit de l’Américain par Thérèse Sasseville et Marie Agnès Tremblay. 2e ed. Centre de Psychologie et de Pedagogie, 1966. 335p. #1415 .25
BC171.B58 2005 Blackburn, Simon. Truth: a guide. Oxford University Press, c2005. xxii, 238p. Notes p.223-234. Index. #14309 13.45
BC177.N69 1993 Nozick, Robert. The nature of rationality. Princeton University Press, c1993. xvi, 226p. Notes p.183-217. Indexes. #12406 6.45
BC177.R345 1990 Regal, Philip. The anatomy of judgment. University of Minnesota Press, 1990. 368p. Additional Readings p.335-347. Index. #482 15.85
BC177.S28 1993 Saul, John Ralston. Voltaire’s bastards: the dictatorship of reason in the West. Random House: Vintage Books, 1993 c1992. x, 612p. Notes p.587-612. #10217 8.55
BC177.T58 Toulmin, Stephen. Human understanding. Princeton University press, 1972- 3v. (519, ), bibliographical footnotes. Index. v.1, General introduction and part 1. #5352 .25
BD11.B53 1999 Blackburn, Simon. Think: a compelling introduction to philosophy. Oxford University Press, c1999. vii, 312p. Bibliography p.307-370. Index. #10277 15.70
BD21.C594 1975 Classic philosphical questions; 2d ed. Edited by James A. Gould. Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, c1975; 1st published c1971. x, 661p. Suggested Readings at ends of selections. Appendices: I. General References p.650. II. [Biographical notes on contributors]. Index. #13206 1.60
BD21.E5 1981 Emmet, Eric Revell. Learning to philosophize. Rev. Penguin Books, 1981 c1968; 1st published 1964. 270p. Sources of Extracts p.267-270. #10835 1.40
BD21.F73 1989 Frost, S E 1899-1978. Basic teaching of the great philosophers: a survey of their basic ideas. rev ed. Doubleday: Anchor Books, 1989 c1962; 1st published 1942. 301p. Biographical Notes p.275-296. Index. #5881 .50
BD21.N24 1987 Nagel, Thomas. What does it all mean? A very short introduction to philosophy. Oxford University Press, 1987. 101p. #7174 .50
BD21.S375 1998 Scruton, Roger. An intelligent person’s guide to philosophy. Penguin Books, 1998 c1996. 168p. Further Reading p.165. Index. #10467 13.85
BD31.P56 2001 Phillips, Christopher, 1959- Socrates café: a fresh taste of philosophy. W. W. Norton & Company, c2001. [vi], 232p. Glossary of Philosophers p.213-224. Further Reading p.225-229. Acknowledgements p.231-232. #12519 6.45
BD32.M3 1991 Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973. An introduction to philosophy. With a new foreword by Stephen J. Cicchio. Christian Classics, 1991; 1st published 1930? From the 1920 edition, Elements de philosophie. xxiii, 191p., diagrams. Bibliographical footnotes. #1680 5.00
BD111.W52 1969 Wilshire, Bruce. Metaphysics: an introduction to philosophy. Pegasus, 1969. 208p. Selected Bibliography p.201-203. Index. #7725 2.10
BD150.T55 q.5-6 1961 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274. Providence and Predestination. Truth, Questions 5 & 6. Translated from the defniitive Leonine text and with an Introduction by Robert W. Mulligan. Henry Regnery Company: A Gateway Edition, 1961; text 1st published in Veritate, c1953. xxxii, 154p. (Questiones disputate du veritate; 5-6). #12936 .25
BD161.A9 1979 Ayer, Alfred Jules, 1910-1989, Sir. Problem of knowledge. Penguin Books, 1979 c1956. 224p.. Index. #1096 Exchange.
BD161.B32 1980 Bateson, Gregory. Mind and nature: a necessary unity. Bantam Books, 1980. 259p., drawings. Glossary p.249-253. Index. #1964 .30
BD161.C34 1969 Capaldi, Nicholas. Human knowledge: a philosophical analysis of its meaning and scope. Pegasus, 1969. 176p. Select Bibliography p. 170-173. Index (Traditions in Philosophy). #1767 2.13
BD161.B38 1960 Dewey, John, 1859-1952, and Bentley, Arthur Fisher, 1870- Knowing and the known. Beacon Press, 1960 c1949. xiii, 334p. Bibliographical notes at ends of chapters. Index. #9630 4.25
BD161.D4 1960 Dewey, John, 1859-1952. The quest for certainty: a study of the relation of knowledge and action. Gifford Lectures 1929. G. P. Putnam’s Sons: Capricorn Books, 1960 c1929. 318p. Index. #7341 3.75
BD161.G74 1974 Grene, Marjorie. The knower and the known. University of California Press, c1974; 1st published 1964. 283p. Notes p.267-280. Index. #10213 6.40
BD161.H846 1995 Human knowledge: classical and contemporary approaches. 2d ed. Edited by Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander Nat. Oxford University Press, 1995. 463p., bibliographical references at ends of chapters. Indexes. #1618 5.98
BD161.L9 1962 Lynch, William F., 1908- The integrating mind: an exploration into Western thought. Sheed & Ward, 1962. viii, 181p. #7452 1.10
BD161.O94 1992 Owens, Joseph. Cognition: an epistemelogical inquiry. Center for Thomistic Studies, 1992. 373p. Notes at ends of chapters. Index. #3055 3.40
BD161.P719 1969 Polanyi, Michael. Knowing and being: essays. The University of Chicago Press, 1969. xvii, 246p. Bibliographic notes at ends of chapters. Index. #9631 4.25
BD161.R3 1969 Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982. Introduction to objectivist epistemology. The Objectivist, 1969 c1967. 77p., notes. #443 First published in The Objectivist. 1.95
BD161.R3 1990 Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982. Introduction to objectivist epistemology. With an additional essay by Leonard Peikoff. Expanded 2d ed. Penguin: Meridian, 1990. 374p.. Index. #479 10.45
BD171.A24 1984 Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902- Six great ideas: truth, goodness, beauty–ideas we judge by–liberty, equality, justives–ideas we act by. Macmillan: Collier Books, 1984 c1981. 243p. #1262 $7.65
BD171.F47 1997b Fernándex-Arnesto, Felipe. Truth: a history and a guide for the perplexed. St. Martin’s Press, c1997. xiii, 257p. Notes p.230-249. Index. #10345 12.05
BD175.I544 1990 Ingram, David B. Critical theory and philosophy. Paragon House, c1990. xxx, 240p. (Paragon Issues in Philosophy) Notes and selected bibliography at ends of chapters. Acknowledgements p.xiii. Biographical Profiles of Important Critical Theorists p.217-218. Glossary p.219-227. Index. 16188 1.00
BD177.P3 1961 Passmore, John. Philosophical reasoning. Scribners, 1961. 150p., bilbiographical footnes. #5880 1.00
BD181.B76 1978 Bronowski, Jacob, 1908-1974. The origins of knowledge and imagination. Yale University Press, c1978. xiii, 144p. Bibliographical footnotes. (The Silliman Foundation Lectures, v.44). Index. #12643 .25
BD215.D45 2007 DeYoung, Curtiss Paul. Living fatith: how faith inspires social justice. Fortress Press c2007. [vi], 186p. Acknowledgements p.159. Brief Biographical Setches of Twentiety Century Mustic advocates p.160-162. Endnotes p.163-175. Bibliography p.176-183. Index. #13866 12.85
BD215.H43 2000 Hecht, Jennifer Michael. Doubt: a history. The great debaters and their legacy of innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily dickinson. HarperCollinsPublishers: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004 c2003. xxii, 551p. Notes p.495-520. Bibliography p.521-528. Acknowledgements p.529. Index. #13677 10.75
BD215.N6 1967 Novak, Michael. Belief and unbelief: a philosophy of self knowledge. New American Library: Mentor-Omega, 1967 c1965. 189p. Selected Bibliography p.178-183. Index. #1135 .55
BD221.H37 Harris, James F(ranklin) 1941- Against relativism: a philosophical defense of method. Open Court, 1993 c1992. xviii, 228p. Acknowledgements p.xvii. Notes p.195-213. Select Bibliography p.215-222. Index. #15791 .25
BD232.G667 1996 Griffin, James, 1933- Value judgment: improving your ethical beliefs. Clarendon Press, c1996. xii, 180p. Bibliography p.169-175. Index. #12596 2.65
BD232.K6 1959 Köhler, Wolfgang, 1897- The place of value in a world of facts. Meridian Books, 1959 c1938. xiii, 418p., bibliographical footnotes. Index. #7576 1.00
BD232.N484 1970 New knowledge in human values. Edited by Abraham N. Maslow. Foreword by Pitirim A. Sorokin. Henry Regnery Company: A Gateway Edition, 1970 c1959. xiv, 268p. Bibliographical footnotes. Biographical Notes on the Contributors p.251-258. Index. #10450 .75
BD241.B415 1983 Bernstein, Richard J. Beyond objectivism and relativism: science, hermeneutics, and praxis. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xix, 284p. Bibliography p.268-276. Index. #9892 5.35
BD241.G313 1989 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900- Truth and method; 2nd rev. ed. Translation revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. Crossroad, c1989; 1st English translation c1975, based on 5th German ed., Gesammelte Werke, v.1., c1986; 1st published as Warheit und method, c1960. xxxviii, 594p. Bibliographical footnotes. Index. #11954 exchange
BD311.T3 1961 Taylor, Alfred Edward, 1869-1945. Elements of metaphysics. Barnes & Noble, 1961 c1903. 419p., chpter bibliographies.. Index #37. 1.95
BD331.H4313 1961 Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. An introduction to metaphysics. Doubleday: Anchor Books, 1961 c1959; 1st published in Germany, 1953. 192p.. Index. #111 .95
BD331.M3 1962 Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973. A preface to metaphysics; seven lectures on being. New American Library: Mentor Omega Books, 1962. 142p. #112 .60
BD331.P4 1977 Pearce, Joseph Chilton. The crack in the cosmic egg: challenging constructs of mind and reality. Pocket Books, 1977 c1971. 219p. Bibl. p.213-219. #491 1.04
BD411.C544 2003 Clegg, Brian. A brief history of infinity: the quest to think the unthinkable. Robinson, c2003. [x], 255p., diagrams, tables, equations. Acknowledgements p. [ix]. References p.245-249. Index. #13411 5.65
BD418.3.F627 2000 Fodor, Jerry A. The mind doesn’t work that way: the scope and limits of computational psychology. MIT Press: A Bradford Book, c2000. xi, 126p. References p.121-123. Index. (Representation and Mind). #11265 15.00
BD418.3.S43 1995 Searle, John R. The rediscovery of mind. The MIT Press: A Bradford Book, 1995 c1992. xv, 270p. Bibliograhy p.255-261. Indexes. #11183 10.65
BD431.B24 1961 Baker, Herschel Clay, 1914- The image of man: a study of the idea of human dignity in classical antiquity, the middle ages, and the Renaissance. Harper & Brothers: Harper Torchbooks/The Academy Library, 1961 c1947. xii, 365p. Bibliography p.339-357. Index. #12325 4.00
BD431.F68 1968 Frankel, Charles. The case for modern man. With a new preface by the author. Beacon Press, 1968 c1956. 240p. Notes p.213-236. Index. #5882 .50
BD435.G73 2008 Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658. Translated by Martin Fischer. Edited with an introduction by Steven Schroeder. Barnes & Noble, 2008; 1st published 1647. xiv, 103p. Suggested Reading p.103. 16299 7.35
BD435.K874 1986 Kushner, Harold. When all you’ve ever wanted isn’t enough. Simon & Schuster: Summit Books, c1986. x, 147p. On cover: The Search for a Life That Matters. #12753 .30
BD436.B47 1987 Bergmann, Martin S., 1913- The anatomy of loving: the story of man’s quest to know what love is. Columbia University Press, 1987. xii, 302p, frontispiece. Bibliography p.279-287. Index. #7634 1.00
BD436.P44 2007 Phillips, Christopher, 1959- Socrates in Love: philosophy for a die-hard romantic. W. W. Norton & Company, c2007. 320p. Acknowledgements p.313-317. Recommended Reading p.319-320. 16344 4.10
BD436.S6 1988 Solomon, Robert C. About love: reinventing romance for our times. Simon & Schuster, c1988. 349p. #10390 1.05
BD438.E83 1909 Eucken, Rudolf Christof. The problem of human life as viewed by the great thinkers… Translated from the German by Williston S. Hough and W.R. Boyce Gibson. Scribners, 1909. 582p. Indexes. #1646 .25
BD444.H37 1977 Harrington, Alan, 1919- The immortalist. Celestial Arts, c1977; 1st published 1969. [viii], 313p. Notes p.292-308. Index. A book on the engineering of man’s divinity. – Preface. #13379 .70
BD450.B39 1971 Becker, Ernest. Birth and death of meaning: an interdisciplinary perspective on the problem of man. 2d ed. Macmillan: Free Press, 1971. 228p. References p.211-214. Background Bibliography p.215-219. Index. #1766 1.88
BD450.B44 1971 Bernstein, Richard J. Praxis and action: contemporary philosophies of human activity. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. xv, 344p. Bibliography p.321-333. Indexes. #9094 2.15
BD450.B525 1997 Bloom, Howard K., 1943- The Lucifer principle: a scientific expedition into the forces of history. The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. xiv, 466p. Bibliography p.409-448. Index. #9002 16.00
BD450.C3 1965 Castell, Alburey, 1904- The self in philosophy. The Macmillan Co., c1965. vi, 122p. Contains bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography p.118-122. #13610 4.30
BD450.F35 2002 Flanagan, Owen J., 1949- The problem of the soul: two visions of mind and how to reconcile them. Perseus Book Group: Basic Books, c2002. xviii, 364p. Bibliographic Essay p.324-334. Selected Bibliography p.335-348. Acknowledgements p.349-350. Index. #14432 6.40
BD450.G39 1990 Gaylin, Willard. On being and becoming human. Penguin Books, 1990. 292p. Bibliographical Notes p.273-281. Index. #1620 1.71
BD450.M578 1985 Monasterio, Xavier O. To be human: an introductory experiment in philosophy. Paulist Press 1985. viii, 241p. Acknowledgements p.vii. Notes p.237-241. #13653 free
BD450.N366 1988 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 B.C.E. The Nature of the Gods. Translated by Horace C. P. McGregor; introduction by J. M. Ross. Penguin Books, 1988 c1972. 278p.. Index, list of books. #447. 7.37
BD450.N58 1968 Nobel Conference: 4th, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1968. The uniqueness of man: a discussion. Edited by John D. Soslansky. North Holland Publishing Company, 1968. 189p. Contains bibliographical notes and footnotes. #7472 .50
BD450.S3785 2010 Schulz, Kathryn. Being worng: adventures in the margin of error. HarperCollinsPublishrs: Ecco `2010. x, 405p., photos, table. Acknowledgements p.341-344. Notes p.345-391. Index. #14434 15.80
BD450.S766 1987 Stevenson, Leslie Foster. Seven theories of human nature. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press c1987; 1st published c1974. xii, 147p. Notes and bibliographies at ends of chapters. Index. On cover: Christianity, Freud, Lorenz, Marx, Sartre, Skinner, Plato. #15775 2.15
BD450.T413 1969 Teihard de Chardin, Pierre, 1881-1955. The future of man. Translated from the French by Damien Deny. Harper & Row, 1969 c1964. 1st published 1959 as L’Avenir de l’homme. 332p., biblographic footnotes. Index. #1532 .25
BD450.Z43 1995 Zeldin, Theodore. An intimate history of humanity. Harper Collins Publishers: Harper Perennial, 1996 c1994. viii, 488p. Bibliographical notes at ends of chapters. Index. #9184 17.00
BD511.H65 2012 Holt, Jim, 1954- Why does the world exist? an existential detective story. W.W. Norton & Company: Liveriglit Publishing Corporation c2012. xiii, 308p. Acknowledgements p.281. Notes p.283-294. Index. #15771 3.20
BD511.L4 1947 Lecomte du Noüy, P. Human destiny. New American Library: Mentor Book, 1942. 189p. #1715 .37
BD511.M8 1961 Munitz, Milton Karl, 1913- Space, time and creation: philosophical aspects of scientific cosmology. Collier Books, 1961 c1957. 156p. Contains bibliographical footnotes. Index. #13160 3.20
BD512.T413 1965 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 1881-1955. The phenomenon of man. Harper: Torchbooks (The Cathedral Library) 1965 c1959; 1st published in France, 1955. 320p.. Index. #415 .10
BD638.G64 2001 Gorst, Martin, 1960- Measuring eternity: the search for the beginning of time. Broadway Books, c2001. [5], 338p., black & white photos, facsimilies. Notes and Sources p.295-310. Select Bibliography p.311-313. Index. #11978 10.65
BD638.J6613 2001 Jonsson, Bodil. Unwinding the clock: ten thoughts on our relation to time. Translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally. Harcourt, c2001; 1st published 1999 as Tiv Tankar om Tid. x,150p. Uncorrected proof. #11261 2.15
BD638.S76 2001 Steiner, George 1929- Grammars of creation: originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990. Yale Unsiversity Press, c2001 [vi], 344p. Contains bibliographical references. Index. #12593 6.40
BD701.E383 1959 Eliade, Mircea, 1907- Cosmos and history: they myth of the eternal return. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. Harper & Row: Harper Torchbooks/The Bollingen Library, c1959; 1st published c1954 as The myth of the eternal return from Le mythe d’éternal retour: archétypes et répétition c1949. xv, 176p. Bibliographical footnotes. Index. #12368 3.20
BD901.N38 1998 The necessity of friction. Edited by Nordal Akerman. HarperCollinsPublishers: Westview Press, c1998. viii, 320p. Notes at ends of articles. About the Authors p.319-320. #10081 5.00