GENERAL GUIDES

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The Blackwell companion to philosophy (1996)
Classic Asian philosophy: a guide to the essential texts (2002)
Library of Congress subject headings in philosophy: a thesaurus (2001)
Philosophy: a guide to the reference literature (1997)
Philosophy: a beginner’s guide (1995)
Philosophy: a guide through the subject (1995)
Political philosophy: theories, thinkers, concepts (2001)
Thinking and writing about philosophy (2002)
Twentieth century Continental philosophy (1997)
A Student’s guide to philosophy (1999)

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COMPANIONS & GUIDES - BY SUBJECT

AESTHETICS
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics (2004)
A Companion to aesthetics (1992)
The Oxford handbook of aesthetics (2002)
The Routledge companion to aesthetics (2001)

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell guide to American philosophy (2004)
A Companion to African-American philosophy (2003)
A Companion to American thought (1995)

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell guide to ancient philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to Early Greek philosophy (1999)
The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to the Stoics (2003)
A Companion to the pre-Socratic philosophers (1966)

BIOETHICS
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A Companion to bioethics (1998)
A Companion to genethics (2002)

BUSINESS ETHICS
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The Blackwell guide to business ethics (2002)
The Business ethics: a reference handbook (1998)
A Companion to business ethics (1999)

EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of education (2003)

ENLIGHTENMENT
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Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment (1991)
The Cambridge companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (2002)

ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
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A Companion to environmental philosophy (2001)

ETHICS
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The Blackwell guide to business ethics (2002)
The Blackwell guide to ethical theory (2000)
The Business ethics: a reference handbook (1998)
A Companion to bioethics (1998)
A Companion to business ethics (1999)
A Companion to ethics (1991)
A Companion to genethics (2002)
The Oxford handbook of free will (2002)
The Oxford handbook of practical ethics (2003)
A Practical companion to ethics (1999)
The Student's guide to research ethics (2003)

EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell guide to continental philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to German idealism (2000)
A Companion to continental philosophy (1998)

FEMINIST THEORY
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The Cambridge companion to feminism in philosophy (2000)
A Companion to feminist philosophy (1998)
A Concise companion to feminist theory (2003)

LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY
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A Companion to the philosophy of language (1999)

LAW, PHILOSOPHY
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A Companion to philosophy of law and legal theory (1999)
The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law (2002)

LOGIC
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The Blackwell guide to philosophical logic (2001)
A Companion to modal logic (1984)
A Companion to philosophical logic (2003)
The Oxford handbook of rationality (2003)

MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
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The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to Medieval philosophy (2003)

METAPHYSICS
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The Blackwell guide to metaphysics (2002)
A Companion to metaphysics (1995)
The Handbook of metaphysics and ontology (1991)
The Oxford handbook of metaphysics (2003)

MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell guide to continental philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to postmodernism (2004)
A Companion to analytic philosophy (2001)
A Companion to continental philosophy (1998)
A Companion to early modern philosophy (2002)
Exploring phenomenology: a guide to the field and its literature (1990)
The Oxford companion to the history of modern science (2003)
The Routledge companion to postmodernism (2001)

PHENOMENOLOGY
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Exploring phenomenology: a guide to the field and its literature (1990)
The Routledge phenomenology reader (2002)

PHILOSOPHERS
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The Blackwell guide to the modern philosophers: from Descartes to Nietzsche (2001)
A Companion to the philosophers (1999)

PHILOSOPHY, GENERAL
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The Blackwell companion to philosophy (1996)
The Blackwell companion to philosophy (2003)
The Cambridge companion to postmodernism (2004)
The Cambridge companion to Renaissance humanism (1996)
Classic Asian philosophy: a guide to the essential texts (2002)
A Companion to African philosophy (2001)
A Companion to world philosophies (1997)
Library of Congress subject headings in philosophy: a thesaurus (2001)
Philosophy: a guide to the reference literature (1997)
Philosophy: a beginner’s guide (1995)
Philosophy: a guide through the subject (1995)
A Student’s guide to philosophy (1999)
Thinking and writing about philosophy (2002)

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
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The Blackwell guide to philosophy of mind (2003)
A Companion to the philosophy of mind (1994)
The Oxford handbook of rationality (2003)
Philosophy of mind: a guide and anthology (2004)

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
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The Blackwell guide to philosophy of religion (2005)
A Companion to the philosophy of religion (1997)
Philosophy of religion: a guide to the subject (1998)

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science (2002)
A Companion to cognitive science (1998)
A Companion to the philosophy of science (2000)
The Oxford companion to the history of modern science (2003)
The Oxford handbook of rationality (2003)

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell companion to political sociology (2001)
The Blackwell guide to social and political philosophy (2002)
A Companion to contemporary political philosophy (1993)
Political philosophy: theories, thinkers, concepts (2001)

SOCIAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY
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The Blackwell companion to major social theorists (2000)
The Blackwell companion to political sociology (2001)
The Blackwell companion to social theory (2000)
The Blackwell guide to social and political philosophy (2002)
The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of education (2003)
The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of the social sciences (2003)

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
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The Blackwell guide to epistemology (1999)
A Companion to epistemology (1993)
The Oxford handbook of epistemology (2002)
The Oxford handbook of rationality (2004)

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COMPANIONS & GUIDES - BY PHILOSOPHER

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Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
The Cambridge companion to Abelard (2004)

Adorno, Theodor W, 1903-1969
A Cambridge companion to Adorno (2004)

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 1225-1274
The Cambridge companion to Aquinas (1993)
A Latin-English dictionary of St. Thomas Aquinas: based on the Summa Theologica and selected passages of his other works (1960)

Arendt, Hanna, 1906-1975
The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt (2000)

Aristotle, 384-322
Aristotle dictionary (1962)
The Cambridge companion to Aristotle (1995)
A Companion to Aristotle's Politics (1991)
The Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics (2004)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle on ethics (2001)

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, A.D. 354-430
Augustine through the ages: an encyclopedia (1999)
The Cambridge companion to Augustine (2001)
A Companion to the Confessions of St. Augustine
A Companion to the study of St. Augustine (1955)

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Cambridge companion to Bacon (1996)

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Berkeley and The Principles of Human Knowledge (2001)

De Beauvoir, Simone, 1908-1986
The Cambridge companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2003)
Simone de Beauvoir : a beginner's guide ( 2002)

Brentano, Franz Clemens, 1838-1917
The Cambridge companion to Brentano (2004)

Descartes, René, 1596-1650
The Cambridge companion to Descartes (1992)
A Descartes dictionary (1993)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Descartes and The meditations (2003)

Duns Scotus, John, ca. 1266-1308
The Cambridge companion to Duns Scotus (2003)

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
The Cambridge companion to Foucault (1994)

Gadamer, Hans Georg, 1900-2002
Cambridge companion to Gadamer (2002)

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Cambridge companion to Galileo (1998)

Habermas, Jürgen, 1929-
The Cambridge companion to Habermas (1995)

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
The Cambridge companion to Hegel (1993)
A Hegel dictionary (1992)
A Historical dictionary of Hegelian philosophy (2001)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hegel and The Phenomenology of spirit (2002)

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
The Cambridge companion to Heidegger (1993)
Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to philosophy (2001)
A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to metaphysics (2001)
A Companion to Martin Heidegger's Being and time (1986)
A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time (2001)
A Historical dictionary of Heidegger's philosophy (2000)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time (1996)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to the later Heidegger (2000)

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
The Cambridge companion to Hobbes (1996)
A Hobbes dictionary (1995)

Hume, David, 1711-1776
The Cambridge companion to Hume (1993)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume On Knowledge (1999)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume On Religion (2001)

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
The Cambridge companion to Husserl (1995)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Husserl and The Cartesian Meditations (2003)

James, William, 1842-1910
The Cambridge companion to William James (1997)

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
The Cambridge companion to Kant (1992)
A Kant dictionary (1995)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Kant and The Critique of pure reason (1999)

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855
The Cambridge companion to Kierkegaard (1998)
Historical dictionary of Kierkegaard's philosophy (2001)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and trembling (2003)

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716
The Cambridge companion to Leibniz (1995)

Levinas, Emmanuel, 1906-1995
Cambridge companion to Levinas (2002)

Locke, John, 1632-1704
The Cambridge companion to Locke (1994)
A Locke dictionary (1993)
Locke on government (1995)
Locke on human understanding (1977)

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715
The Cambridge companion to Malebranche (2000)

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
The Cambridge companion to Marx (1991)
A Marx dictionary (1987)
Marx-Engels dictionary (1980)

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
The Cambridge companion to Mill (1998)
Mill On Liberty (1998)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Mill On Utilitarianism (1997)

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
Cambridge companion to Newton (2002)

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900
The Cambridge companion to Nietzsche (1996)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Nietzsche On Morality (2002)

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
The Cambridge companion to Pascal (2003)

Peirce, Charles S, 1814 1855
The Cambridge companion to Peirce (2004)

Plato, 427-347 BC
The Cambridge companion to Plato (1992)
A Companion to Plato's Republic (1979)
Plato and The Republic (1995)
Routledge philosophy guide to Plato and The trial of Socrates (2004)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and The Republic (2003)

Plotinus, A.D. 204-70
The Cambridge companion to Plotinus (1996)

Quine, W. V. (Willard van Orman), 1908-2000
The Cambridge companion to Quine (2003)

Rawls, John, 1921-
The Cambridge companion to Rawls

Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796
The Cambridge companion to Thomas Reid (2004)

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1712-1778
The Cambridge companion to Rousseau (2002)
A Rousseau dictionary (1992)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Rousseau and The Social Contract (2004)

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Cambridge companion to Bertrand Russell (2003)

Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-1980
The Cambridge companion to Sartre (1992)

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860
The Cambridge companion to Schopenhauer (1999)

Spinoza, Benedict, 1632-1677
The Cambridge companion to Spinoza (1996)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Spinoza and The Ethics (1996)
Spinoza dictionary (1976)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
The Cambridge companion to Wittgenstein (1996)
A Companion to Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations (1977)
A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1964)
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and The Philosophical investigations (1997)
A Wittgenstein dictionary (1996)

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