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	"Sophie's World: A Novel About The History of Philosophy" [1994] by Jostein Gaarder, Translated by Paulette Moller Bestseller in Norway & the New York Times; story has three threads: teenage Sophie corre-sponds from a remote village with a professor who teaches her philosophy, the second is the philosophical teachings, and the third is a series of mysterious letters from her father about somebody named Hilde. Kindle Edition from FS&G/Macmillan [2007 edition] for $7.99 Berkley Books mass pb [3/96] out of print/hundreds used Farrar, Straus & Giroux 8¼x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $9.89 FS&G/Perfection Learning 8¼x5½ hardcover [2010] for $16.64
	"Masterpieces of World Philosophy" [1990] Edited by Frank N. Magill, Introduction by John Roth 700 pages of summaries and analyses of almost 100 essential philosophical works HarperCollins 9x6 pb [1990] out of print/used Collins Reference 9½x8 hardcover [8/91] for $31.27
	"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Philosophy, Third Edition" [orig 1998] by Jay Stevenson, PhD Kindle Edition from Alpha [2002 edition] for $15.99 Alpha 9x6½ pb [6/2005] for $11.14
	"Introducing Philosophy" [2001] by Dave Robinson & Judy Groves 8¼x5½ pb [12/2004] for $10.36 8x5½ pb [4/2001] out of print/many used
	"Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" [2002] by Edward Craig Oxford Univ Press mass pb [5/2002] for $9.56
	"50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know" [2007] by Ben Durpé described by Amazon reviewer as superficial but thorough, and clearly written Kindle Edition from Quercus [8/2007] for $4.76 Quercus 8x7 hardcover [8/2007] for $16.36
	"The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained" [2010] Illustrations by James Grahame DK Publng 9½x8¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $16.50 The philosophers are arranged in chronological order from 700 BCE {Thales of Miletus} to the present {Slavoj Zizek}; there is a directory with the names of the thinkers and comparable men in the same school of thought, and an index, and a really useful glossary.
	"The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts & Methods, Second Edition" [rev 2010] by Julian Baggini & Peter S. Fosl Kindle Edition from Wiley-Blackwell [8/2011] for $12.07 Wiley-Blackwell 9x6 pb [4/2010] for $14.63
	"50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking From 50 Key Books" [2013] by Tom Butler-Bowdon Not a collection of 50 books, but rather of 50 essays on esteemed books & authors in the realm of Philosophy (in 288 pages). Kindle Edition from Nicholas Brealey Publng [2/2013] for $9.99 Nicholas Brealey Publng 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2013] for $12.50

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"Modern Essays" [orig 1921] Selected by Christopher Morley [1890-1957] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2008] for $1.99 {sic} Cornell Univ Library 7¼x4¾ pb [7/2009] for $26.99 Nabu Press 9¾x7½ pb [9/2010] for $24.89 free online etext [12/2011] at Project Gutenberg contributors include Harry Morgan Ayres, Max Beerbohm, David W. Bone, Rupert Brooke, Heywood Broun, Thomas Burke, James Branch Cabell, Joseph Conrad, Harry Esty Dounce, O.W. Firkins, Philip Guedalla, Louise Imogen Guiney, A.P. Herbert, Robert Cortes Holliday, Joyce Kilmer, Stephen Leacock, John Macy, Don Marquis, William McFee, A.A. Milne, William Osler, Bertrand Russell {"A Free Man's Worship"}, George Saintsbury, George Santayana {"The Elements of Poetry"}, Stuart P. Sherman, Logan Pearsall Smith, Marian Storm, Simeon Strunsky, H.M. Tomlinson, Robert Palfrey Utter, Stewart Edward White, and William Allen White

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"Dictionary of The History of Ideas" 5-volume set [1973] Edited by Philip P. Wiener slipcover case with 5 volumes: Volume I: Abstraction to Design Argument; Volume II: Despotism to Law, Common; Volume III: Law, Concept of to Protest Movements; Volume IV: Psychological Ideas to Zeitgeist; Volume 5: Index Macmillan Publng Co. pb set [6/80] out of print/overpriced! Macmillan Publng Co. pb set [6/80] out of print/many used Scribner's pb set [1973] out of print/used Scribner's 9½x6½x7½" pb slipcover set [1973] out of print/used Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover set [6/74] overpriced!

"New Dictionary of The History of Ideas" 6-volume set [2004] Edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz Thomson Gale hardcover set [2004] out of print/used

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"The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction To Philosophy" popular textbook [orig 1990?, Seventh Edition 2014] by Norman Melchert Oxford Univ Press 7th Edition 9¼x8 hardcover [1/2014] for $85.48 Oxford Univ Press 6th Edition 9¼x7½ hardcover [9/2010] for $77.42 Volume I: Pre-Socratics Thru Descartes Oxford Univ Press 7th Edition 9x7½ pb [1/2014] for $66.45 Volume II: Descartes Thru Derrida and Quine Oxford Univ Press 7th Edition pb [1/2014] for $66.45 author entry at Wikipedia • publisher's bookpage (for 6th Edition)

The paperback edition is in two volumes for the convenience of course design; the new hardcover contains 26 chapters, the 2014 paperbacks are 13 each. Chapter titles/topics: 1. Before Philosophy: Myth; 2. Philosophy Before Socrates; 3. The Sophists; 4. Socrates: To Know Oneself; 5. The Trial & Death of Socrates; 6. Plato: Knowing The Real & The Good; 7. Aristotle: The Reality of The World; 8. Epicureans, Stoics & Skeptics; 9. The Christians; 10. Augustine; 11. Anselm & Aquinas; 12. Moving From Medieval To Modern; 13. René Descartes; 14. Hobbes, Locke & Berkeley; 15. David Hume; 16. Immanuel Kant; 17. Hegel: Taking History Seriously; 18. Kierkegaard & Marx; 19. The Utilitarians; 20. Friedrich Nietzsche; 21. The Pragmatists; 22. Ludwig Wittgenstein; 23. Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being; 24. Simone de Beauvoir; 25. Postmodernism and Physical Realism: Derrida, Quine & Dennett; and 26: not sure

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	"Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and The Making of Modernity, 1650-1750" [2001] by Jonathan I. Israel Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2002] for $41.63 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2001] out of print/used "Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and The Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752" [2006] by Jonathan I. Israel Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/2009] for $35.35 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2006] for $62.99
	"Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790" [2011] by Jonathan I. Israel Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2011] for $38.38
	"A Revolution of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment and The Intel-lectual Origins of Modern Democracy" [2009] by Jonathan Israel a summary of the Enlightenment trilogy above Kindle Edition from Princeton Univ Press [10/2009] for $14.82 Princeton Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [10/2009] for $25.26 author's faculty homepage

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"Philosophic Classics: From Plato To Derrida" [1961; rev 2002] by Forrest E. Baird & Walter Kaufmann Prentice Hall 6th edition pb [1/2010] for $103.33 Prentice Hall 5th edition 9x7 pb [4/2007] for $69.82 Prentice Hall 4th edition pb [7/2002] out of print/used "Volume I: Ancient Philosophy" by F.E.B. & W.K. Prentice Hall 6th edition pb [1/2010] for $77.00 Prentice Hall 5th edition 9x7 pb [4/2007] for $56.70 Prentice Hall 4th edition 9¼x7 pb [6/2002] out of print/many used "Volume II: Medieval Philosophy" by F.E.B. & W.K. Prentice Hall 6th edition pb [6/2010] for $77.00 Prentice Hall 5th edition 9x7 pb [4/2007] for $72.00 Prentice Hall 4th edition 9½x7 pb [6/2002] out of print/many used Volume III: Modern Philosophy" by F.E.B. & W.K. Prentice Hall 6th edition pb [3/2010] for $77.00 Prentice Hall 5th edition 9x7 pb [4/2007] for $45.62 Prentice Hall 4th edition 9½x7 pb [6/2002] out of print/many used "Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy" by F.E.B. & W.K. Prentice Hall 3rd edition 9½x7 pb [6/2002] for $67.60 "Volume V: Twentieth-Century Philosophy" by F.E.B. & W.K. Prentice Hall 3rd edition 9x6¾ pb [8/2002] for $72.00 "Volume VI: Asian Philosophy" by F.E.B. & Raeburne S. Heimbeck Prentice Hall 9x7 pb [3/2005] for $73.33

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General  Books  of  Philosophy
{ in chronological order }

	"The Story of Philosophy: The Lives & Opinions of The Greater Philosophers" [1926 bestseller] by Will & Ariel Durant Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital [7/2012] for $8.00 Pocket mass pb [2/91] for $8.72 Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [rev 10/89] for $10.88 Simon & Schuster 9x6½ hardcover [2009] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio CD [10/2010] 19½ hours for $30.36
	"The English Philosophers From Bacon To Mill: The Golden Age of Philosophy" [1939] Edited by Edwin A. Burtt listed on the cover: John Stuart Mill, Hume, Berkeley, Locke, Bacon, John Gay, Hobbes, James Mill, Jeremy Bentham Modern Library 8¼x5¾ pb [12/94] out of print/used Modern Library 8¼x5¾ hardcover [7/77] out of print/used Modern Library Giant 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1939] out of print/used
	"An Introduction To Philosophy" [1944] by William Angus Sinclair Oxford Univ Press pb [1964] out of print/scarce Oxford Univ Press mass pb [1962] out of print/scarce Oxford Univ Press hardcover [1947] out of print/scarce Oxford Univ Press 6½x4 hardcover [1944] out of print/used

"A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances From The Earliest Times To The Present Day" [1945 classic] by Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace, and its wit; in 76 chapters and 800 pages Russell traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the XXth Century; universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy, and the best-selling philosophy book of the XXth Century Kindle Edition from Touchstone [6/2008] for $20.99 Simon & Schuster/Touchstone 8½x5½ pb [10/67] for $24.49 Routledge 8½x5½ hardcover [8/2015] - overpriced George Allen & Unwin hardcover [1946] out of print/used Simon & Schuster hardcover [1945] out of print/used

	"Medieval Philosophy: Augustine To Scotus" [1950] by Frederick C. Copleston Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [6/2015] for $9.57 Harper Torchbooks 8x5&frac112 pb [10/2011] out of print/used Dover Publns 8¼x5¼ pb [10/2011] out of print/used Dover Books 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/2011] for $28.10 Metheun & Co. Home Study Books hardcover [1952] long out of print/used
	"Philosophy Made Simple" [1958] by Richard H. Popkin PhD & Avrum Stroll Doubleday Made Simple 10¼x7¾ pb [rev 8/93] for $9.20
	"A History of Skepticism" [1960] by Richard H. Popkin ".. From Savanarola To Bayle" [third edition] Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [3/2003] for $24.95 Oxford Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2003] for $74.00 ".. From Erasmus To Spinoza" [1960; rev 1979] Univ CA Press 8¼x5½ pb [11/79] for $24.95
	"The European Philosophers From Descartes To Nietzche" [1960] Edited by Monroe C. Beardsley listed on the cover: René Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza , Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Mach, Nietzsche Modern Library 8x5¼ pb [11/2002] for $22.00 Modern Library 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/92] out of print/used Modern Library hardcover [1960] out of print/used
	"About Philosophy" [1975 classic] by Robert Paul Wolff Kindle 11th Edition from Pearson [8/2011] for $84.70 11th edition: Pearson 9¾x8 hardcover [7/2011] for $98.77 10th edition: Prentice Hall 8¾x7½ hardcover [7/2008] out of print/70+ used 9th edition with CD-ROM: Prentice Hall [1/2005] out of print/100+ used browse all books by Wolff • official booksite
	"Fundamentals of Philosophy" [1982] by David Stewart & H. Gene Blocker Prentice Hall 9½x7¼ pb 6th edition [5/2005] for $66.00 publisher bookpage
	"A Dictionary of Philosophy" [rev 1984] by Antony G. Flew St. Martin's Griffin 2nd edition 8½x5½ pb [2/84] for $26.89 St. Martin's Griffin 2nd edition 8½x5½ pb [2/84] out of print/used Gramercy 2nd edition 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/99] out of print/40+ used
	"From Socrates To Sartre: The Philosophic Quest" [1984] by T.Z. Lavine Kindle Edition from Bantam/Random House [5/2011] for $7.99 Bantam mass pb [2/85] for $7.19 Bantam mass pb [12/84] for $14.44 Bantam Doubleday Dell mass pb [3/84] out of print/many used
	"The Great Thoughts: From Abelard To Zola, From Ancient Greece To Contemporary America, The Ideas That Have Shaped The History of The World" [1985] Compiled by George Seldes, Foreword by Henry Steele Commager Kindle Edition from Ballantine Books [rev 8/2011] for $5.99 Ballantine Books 9x6 pb [rev 5/96] for $20.87 Ballantine Books 9x6 pb [3/85] for $20.87 Ballantine Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/85] out of print/used Ballantine Books 9x6¼ hardcover [3/85] out of print/90+ used
	"The Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy" [1990, rev 2009] by Michael Proudfoot & A.R. Lacey Kindle Edition from Routledge [4th edition 12/2009] for $28.45 Routledge 4th edition 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $29.95 Routledge 4th edition 8½x5¾ hardcover [12/2009] for $120.00 {sic}
	"Philosophy: The Basics" [1992, rev 2012] by Nigel Warburton Kindle Edition from Routledge [5th edition 8/2013] for $13.77 Routledge 5th edition 7¾x5 pb [12/2012] for $17.65 Routledge 5th edition 8x5¼ hardcover [12/2012] for $83.30 {sic}
	"The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy: In-Depth Explanations and Examples Covering Over 3,000 Entries" [1992] by Peter A. Angeles HarperCollins 2nd edition 8x5¼ pb [8/92] for $13.63 HarperCollins 2nd edition 8¼x5½ pb [8/92] out of print/used
	"The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy" [1994, rev 2008] by Simon Blackburn Kindle Edition from Oxford Quick Reference [3rd edition 2/2016] for $9.99 Oxford Quick Reference 3rd edition 8x5 pb [5/2016] for $15.19 Oxford Quick Reference 2nd edition 7½x5 pb [10/2008] out of print/40+ used Oxford Quick Reference 7¾x5 pb [5/96] out of print/90+ used Oxford Univ Press 2nd edition 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/94] out of print/50+ used
	"The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy" [1995, rev 2015] Edited by Robert Audi Cambridge Univ Press 3rd edition 10x7x2 inches! pb [5/2015] for $34.63 Cambridge Univ 3rd edition 10x7 x 1¾ inches! hardcover [4/2015] for $67.60 Cambridge Univ Press 2nd edition 10x7 x 2¼ inches! pb [9/99] for $23.09 Cambridge Univ 2nd edition 9¾x7 x 2¼ inches! hardcover [9/99] for $43.99
	"The Oxford Companion To Philosophy" [1995] Edited by Ted Honderich Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/95] for $52.65
	"An Introduction To Medieval Philosophy" [1996] by Christopher J.F. Martin Edinburgh Univ Press pb [6/1996] for $59.99
	"Pooh and The Philosophers: In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely A Preamble To Winnie-The-Pooh" [1996] by John Tyerman Williams, with Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard author compares Milne's thought with philosophers that include Aristotle, Camus, Descartes, Heidegger, Kant, Locke, Plato, Bertrand Russell, and Sartre Methuen 6¼x5 pb [4/97] out of print/used Dutton Books 7½x5½ hardcover [8/96] out of print/100+ used
	"The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy" [1997] Edited by Anthony Kenny Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ trade pb [5/2001] for $17.46 Oxford Univ Press 10x7¾ hardcover [5/97] out of print/used
	"Pragmatism: A Reader" [1997] Edited with Introduction by Louis Menand Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/97] for $10.58 includes selections from Jane Addams; Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob; Richard J. Bernstein; John Dewey; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William James; Steven Knapp & Walter Benn Michaels; George Herbert Mead; Charles Sanders Peirce; Richard Poirier; Richard A. Posner; Hilary Putnam; Richard Rorty; and Cornel West

"Philosophy: The Classics [1998, rev 2014] by Nigel Warburton chapters/subjects include: Plato & Socrates; Aristotle; Boethius; Macchiaveli; Montaigne; René Descartes; Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza; John Locke; David Hume; Rousseau; Immanuel Kant; Thomas Paine; Schopenhauer; John Stuart Mill; Kierkegaard; Marx & Engels; Friedrich Nietzsche; Bertrand Russell; A.J. Ayer; R.G. Colling-wood; Jean-Paul Sartre; Karl Popper; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Thomas S. Kuhn; and John Rawls Kindle Edition from Routledge [4th edition 2/2014] for $15.63 Routledge 4th Edition 7¾x5 pb [3/2014] for $19.04 Routledge 4th Edition 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/2014] for $120.00 {sic}

	"The Story of Philosophy: A Concise Introduction To The World's Greatest Thinkers and Their Ideas" [1998] by Bryan Magee 240-page D.K. 9¼x7¼ pb [7/2001] for $16.53 D.K. Publng pb [9/98] for $16.84 D.K. Adult hardcover [9/98] for $36.12 "The Story of Thought" Quality Paperback Bookclub pb [1998] out of print/70+ used
	"The Columbia History of Western Philosophy" [1999] Edited by Richard H. Popkin, PhD M.J.F. Books 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2000] for $16.97
	"A Student's Guide To Philosophy" [1999] by Ralph M. McInerny I.S.I. 8x5 pb [11/99] for $7.00 publisher Intercollegiate Studies Institute [est. 1953]
	"The Consolations of Philosophy" [2000] by Alain de Botton "clear, witty prose ... a joy to read" Vintage 8x5 pb [4/2001] for $11.16 Pantheon 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
	"Fifty Key Thinkers On History" [2000] by Marnie Hughes-Warrington subjects/chapters include Bede, Febvre, Foucault, Francis Fukuyama, Gibbon, Gregory of Tours, Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Herodotus, Kant, Thomas S. Kuhn, Ladurie, Livy, Macaulay, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Polybius, Ricoeur, Tacitus, Thucydides, Toynbee, and Frederick Jackson Turner Routledge 2nd edition 8½x5½ pb [12/2007] for $26.95 Routledge 8¼x5½ pb [8/2000] for $26.95 Routledge 2nd edition 8½x5½ hardcover [12/2007] for $120.00
	"Reason and Culture: An Introduction To Philosophy" [2001] by John Arthur, Amy Shapiro & William Throop "... instructors will find this book useful in different contexts, mainly as an introductory text or in courses about values and society" Prentice Hall 8¾x7½ pb [1/2001] out of print/used
	"Ten Great Works of Philosophy" [2002] Edited & with General Introduction & Commentaries by Robert Paul Wolff philosopher authors here are: Aristotle ("Poetics"), René Descartes, David Hume ("... Human Understanding"), Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill ("Utilitarianism"), William James, Plato, St. Anselm (excerpt from "Proslogion"), and St. Thomas Aquinas (excerpt from "Summa Theologica") Signet Classics mass pb [3/2002] for $8.06
	"Encyclopedia of The Enlightenment" [2002] Edited by Alan Charles Kors Oxford Univ Press 11x8frac12 hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used
	"Thinking It Through: An Introduction To Contemporary Philosophy" [2003] by Kwame Anthony Appiah covering 8 central topics: mind, knowledge, language, science, morality, politics, law, and metaphysics Oxford Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/2004] for $29.95 Oxford Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2003] for $24.50
	"Encyclopedia of The Enlightenment" [orig 1996, rev 2004] Edited by Peter Hanns Reill & Ellen Judy Wilson Facts On File 11x8½ hardcover [8/2004] for $85.00 Facts On File 11¼x8¾ hardcover [1996] out of print/used
	"One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of The World's Greatest Thinkers" [2004] by Peter J. King Barron's Educational Series 8¾x6½ pb [9/2004] for $13.57 Presented chronologically by year of birth; content includes Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Alfred Jules Ayer, Roger Bacon, Confucius, Donald Davidson, Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Wm. James, Kant, Thomas S. Kuhn, Lao-Tzu, Locke, Ngrjuna, Nietzsche, Plato, Willard V.O. Quine, Sartre, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, and many others
	"Basic Flying Instruction: A Comprehensive Introduction To Western Philosophy" [2004] by Charles Gidley Wheeler [1938-2010] iUniverse 9x6 pb [10/2004] for $18.95 author's website
	"The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers" 4 Volume Set [2005] by General Editor John R. Shook Thoemmes Press 9½x6½ hardcovers in slipcover [6/2005] for $1,620.00 {sic}
	"The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy: The Language and Concepts of Philosophy Explained" [1998, rev 2005] by Thomas Mautner Penguin Reference 2nd edition 7¾x5 pb [12/2005] for $13.24
	"Blackwell Companion To Rationalism" [2005] Edited by Alan Nelson Kindle Edition from Wiley-Blackwell [2005 edition] for $39.17 Wiley-Blackwell 9½x6¾ pb [10/2012] for $41.23 Wiley-Blackwell 10x7 hardcover [12/2005] for $147.95 {sic}
	"The Story of Philosophy: 2,500 Years of Great Thinkers From Socrates To The Existentialists and Beyond" [2006] by Bryan Magee D.K. 9¼x7¾ pb [5/2016] for $19.29 Barnes & Noble hardcover [2006] for $28.83 D.K. hardcover [2000] for $41.88
	"Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction" [2006] by John Marenbon Kindle Edition from Routledge [2006 edition] for $39.06 {sic} Routledge 9¼x6 pb [11/2006] for $41.12 Routledge 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2006] for $112.57 {sic}

"The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books" [2006] by James Garvey the books examined are: Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"; Ayer's "Language, Truth, and Logic"; Berkeley's "Principles of Human Know-ledge"; Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"; Descartes's "Meditations On First Philosophy"; Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"; Hobbes's "Leviathan"; Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"; William James's "Pragmatism"; Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"; Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"; Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto"; John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism"; Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra"; Plato's "Republic"; Karl Popper's "The Logic of Scientific Discovery"; Rousseau's "Social Contract"; Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"; Schopenhauer's "The World As Will and Representation"; and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" Bloomsbury Academic 7¾x5¼ pb [12/2006] for $16.24 Continuum 7¾x5½ hardcover [12/2006] out of print/used

	"Examined Lives: From Socrates To Nietzsche" [2011] by James Miller looks at six Ancient Philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Diogenes, Plato, Seneca, Socrates; and six Modern Philosophers: Descartes, Emerson, Kant, Montaigne, Nietzsche & Rousseau Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9x6 hardcover [1/2011] for $17.07
	"A Little History of Philosophy" [2011] by Nigel Warburton Kindle Edition from Yale Univ Press [10/2011] for $8.10 Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/2012] for $13.71 Yale Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2011] out of print/used
	"Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living Through Chemistry" [2012] Edited by David R. Koepsell & Robert Arp 19 essays by the editors and hand-picked professional thinkers investigate the crimes of the "Breaking Bad" TV series and Walter White, showing how this story relates to the major themes of philosophy and to the major life decisions facing all of us Kindle Edition from Open Court [6/2012] for $9.99 Open Court 9x6 pb [7/2012] for $12.45
	"50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking From Fifty Key Books" [2013] by Tom Butler-Bowdon philosopher authors featured on cover: Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Confucius, René Descartes, Hume, Kant, Thomas S. Kuhn, Leibniz, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Slavoj Žižek Kindle Edition from Nicholas Brealey [2/2013] for $9.99 Nicholas Brealey 9x6½ pb [4/2013] for $13.88
	"Supergatari: History of World Philosophy" for Kindle [2013] Drawings by Michael Gertelman Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2013] for $3.00 {sic} Very one-of-a-kind look at historical questions of philosophy; simple drawings show principles of Augustine of Hipo, Avicenna, Boethius, Cadamer, Foucault, William James, Kierkegaard, Thomas Kuhn, Plato, Quine, Saussure, many others
	"A Student's Key To Ancient Greek Thought: An Introduction To Philosophy" for Kindle [2013] by G.A. Rauche 114-page Kindle Edition from Watch the Fabulous Publns [12/2013] for 99¢
	"Philosophy: Life, Death, Art, Knowledge, Time, Language, God, Self, Free Will" [2015] by Kevin Perry, Foreword by Simon Critchley Kindle Edition from Zephyros Press [8/2015] for $1.99 {sic} Zephyros Press 9¼x7½ pb [8/2015] for $13.43
	"The Philosophy Book: From The Vedas To The New Atheists, 250 Milestones In The History of Philosophy, Illustrated (Sterling Milestones Series)" [2016] by Gregory Bassham Kindle Edition from Sterling [2/2019] for $11.49 Sterling 8½x7½ hardcover [9/2016] for $29.95
	"Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" [2016] by John Marenbon Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [1/2016] for $6.15 Oxford Univ Press 7x4½ pb [4/2016] for $10.45
	"The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About The Good Life" [2016 bestseller] by Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [4/2016] for $12.99 Simon & Schuster 8x5 hardcover [4/2016] for $16.16
	"The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons From Russian Literature" [2017] by Viv Groskop Kindle Edition from Abrams Press [10/2018] for $3.99 Abrams Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/2019] for $16.00 Harry N. Abrams 8½x6 hardcover [10/2018] for $13.86
	"Philosophy: The Quest for Truth" [orig 1989, rev 2019] by Louis P. Pojman [1935-2005] & Lewis Vaughn provides an excellent selection of classical and contemporary readings on nineteen key problems in philosophy Oxford Univ Press 9x7½ 11th edition pb [10/2019] for $87.35 Oxford Univ Press 9x7½ 10th edition pb [9/2016] - overpriced
	"The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers" [2020] by Eric Weiner New York Times bestselling travel writer Weiner visits the home locations of important philosophers, asking practical & spiritual questions and then pondering answers on the train rides between - subjects include Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Simone de Beauvoir of France, Epicurus [341-270 BCE] of Ancient Athens, Gandhi of India, Montaigne of France, Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900], Arthur Schopenhauer, Socrates [470?-399 BCE] of Ancient Athens, Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] of USA • author's official booksite Kindle Edition from Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster [8/2020] for $14.99 Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [8/2020] for $25.20

General  Philosophy  Links

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Australasian Assn. of Philosophy
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Rationalist Press Assn. in U.K.
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Radical Philosophy Assn. [est. 1982]

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Philosophy  Magazines
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Other  Thinkers

U.K. futurist Christopher Barnatt / Explaining The Future website

Ashleigh Brilliant

Peter Cajander & book "Fragments of Reality" [3/2006]

Rob Cunningham's "Principles of Human Action" site

Sean Gould's "Theory of Options" site

François Hemsterhuis [1721-90]
Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy; his works on Amazon are in French & Dutch & German, none found in English
"Hemsterhuis: A European Philosopher Rediscovered" [2013] by Claudia Melica is SOLD OUT !

Brian Johnson
founder of Zaadz/Gaia [est. 2004; sold to Gaiam in 2007; shut down 3/2010]
Chief Philosopher at Philosophers Notes book club

Henry H. Lindner's "Philosophy Over Science"

Daniel Pouzzner's "Architecture of Modern Political Power"

Jason Randhawa's "What Is Metaphysics?" site

Frank S. Robinson of Albany, New York
book "Life, Liberty & Happiness" [7/2006]

Jason P. Rudd of St. Louis, MO
book "The Self: An Ontological Study" [8/2003]

Mark F. Sharlow & book "From Brain To Cosmos" [4/2001]

Melissa Shimu's "Planetary Bill of Rights Project" & blog

Bruce A. Smith of Riverside, California
book "The Path of Reason" [3/2006]

Charles Gidley Wheeler [1938-2010] of U.K.
book "Iota: God As Nature, Nature As God" [11/2006]

Joseph B. Yesselman re Spinoza

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