Classification Philosophy collection
A - General
H - History of Philosophy
N - Non-Western philosophy
SP - Practical and Applied Philosophy
ST - Theoretical philosophy
STL - Logic General
A1 Bibliographies, encyclopaedia’s, dictionaries
A 2 Handbooks, introductions, textbooks
A 3 Historical surveys
A 4 Western philosophy, by country A 4.1 Germany A 4.2 France A 4.3 United Kingdom & Ireland A 4.4 The Netherlands A 4.5 Russia A 4.6 Europe, others A 4.7 United States & Canada A 4.8 Others (for non-Western philosophy, see N) A 4.9 Modern Jewish philosophy (Middle Ages, see H 14)
A 5 Books about education and philosophy in practice
A 6 Writing 39TH 1 Antiquity: General
39TH 2 Antiquity: Special fields and issues 2.1 Metaphysics, logic, physics and epistemology 2.2 Ethics, politics and psychology 2.3 Development of sciences 2.4 Other
39TH 3 Pre-Socratic 3.1 General 3.2 Early philosophers (Milesians, Xenophanes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus) 3.3 Eleaten (Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus) 3.4 Fifth-century philosophers (Atomists, Democritus, Empedocles, Hippocrates, Pythagoreans, Philolaus, Archytas) 3.5 Sophists
39TH 4 Socrates and Plato 4.1 Texts, translations and commentaries 4.2 Socrates 4.3 Plato: General 4.4 Plato: Metaphysics, logic and physics 4.5 Plato: Ethics, politics and psychology 4.6 Plato: Other 4.7 Platonism (Eudoxus, Hermodorus, Philo, Plutarchus, Speusippus, Xenocrates; incl. Middleplatonism) (cf. H 7.2)
39TH 5 Aristotle 5.1 Aristotle: General 5.2 Texts, translations and commentaries 5.3 Metaphysics, logic, physics and science 5.4 Psychology 5.5 Ethics and politics 5.6 Other 5.7 Peripatetici (Eudemus, Theophrastus)
39TH 6 Hellenistic and Roman philosophies 6.1 General 6.2 Stoa 6.3 Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition (Lucretius) 6.4 Sceptics 6.5 Others (Cicero; medici, Galenus) 39TH 7 Late Antiquity 7.1 General 7.2 Neoplatonism, General – (Antiquity only) (cf. H 4.7) 7.2.1 Plotinus 7.2.2 Others (including commentaries on Plato) 7.3 Commentaries on Aristotle (alphabetical: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Dexippus, Philo, Philoponus, Themistius, etc.) 7.4 Patristics – first: general – Individual authors in alphabetical order: Aeropargiet, Ambrose, Augustine, Boethius, Calcidius, Hermes Trismegistus, Minucius Felix, Nemesius, Synesius, etc. 7.5 Others
39TH 8. Middle Ages: General
39TH 9. Middle Ages: subjects and issues 9.1 Metaphysics and logic 9.2 Epistemology 9.3 Ethics 9.4 Development of science 9.5 Other
39TH 10. Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-1200) 10.1 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Texts, translations 10.2 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Commentaries 10.3 Others
39TH 11. Later Middle Ages, untill 1600 11.1 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Texts, translations 11.2 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Commentaries 11.3 Others
39TH 12. Renaissance: General, before Descartes
39TH 13. Renaissance: 13.1 Renaissance – general, see H 12 – Individual authors in alphabetical order: Achillini, Agricola, Francis Bacon, Bruni, Sebastian Castellio, Erasmus, Ficino, Rudolph Goclenius, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Thomas More, Petraca, Pico, Plestron, Ramus, Salutati, Sanches, Trithemius, Valla, Vives etc. 13.2 Development of sciences 13.3 Other
39TH 14 Arabic and Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 14.1 Arabic and Jewish philosophers – first: general – Individual authors in alphabetical order: Alfarabi, Algazali, Averroes, Avicenna, Maimonides) 14.2 Specific issues
39TH 15 17th century 15.1 General 15.2 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Texts, translations 15.3 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Commentaries 15.4 Metaphysics, logic 15.5 Epistemology 15.6 Ethics and politics 15.7 Other
39TH 16. 18th century 16.1 General 16.2 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Texts, translations 16.3 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Commentaries 16.4 Metaphysics, logic 16.5 Epistemology 16.6 Ethics and politics 16.7 Other
39TH 17. 19th century, until 1850 17.1 General 17.2 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Texts, translations 17.3 Individual authors (in alphabetical order): Commentaries 17.4 Metaphysics 17.5 Logic 17.6 Epistemology 17.7 Ethics and politics 17.8 Other 39TH 18.0 Schools 1850-1950 (2000) – General For Frankfurter Schule, see SP 2.5.1
39TH 18.1 Neo-kantianism – in alphabetical order: H 18.1 Alg General H 18.1 Cas Cassirer H 18.1 Ric Rickert H 18.1 Win Windelband
39TH 18.2 Pre-analytical – in alphabetical order: H 18.2 Bol Bolzano H 18.2 Bre Brentano H 18.2 Hof Alois Höfler H 18.2 Mac Mach H 18.2 Mal Ernst Mally H 18.2 Mei Meinong H 18.2 Twa Kazimierz Twardowski
39TH 18.3 Phenomenology – in alphabetical order: H 18.3 Alg General H 18.3 Bak Bakker H 18.3 Boe Boer H 18.3 Hus Husserl H 18.3 Lev Levinas H 18.3 Mer Merleau-Ponty H 18.3 Mor Moran H 18.3 Pat Patočka H 18.3 Sch Scheler
39TH 18.4 (Early) Analytical / Positivism – in alphabetical order: H 18.4 Ajd Ajdukiewicz H 18.4 Alg General; incl. 'Wiener Kreis' H 18.4 Aus Austin H 18.4 Aye Ayer H 18.4 Bet Evert Willem Beth H 18.4 Car Carnap H 18.4 Chi Chisholm H 18.4 Dav Davidson H 18.4 Dum Dummett H 18.4 Fei Feigl H 18.4 Fle Flew H 18.4 Fre Frege (excl. History of logic, see STL 2.2.2) H 18.4 Gri Grice H 18.4 Kai Eino Kaila H 18.4 Kot Kotarbiński H18.4 Kri Kripke H 18.4 Luk Łukasiewicz H 18.4 Kra Kraft H 18.4 Mab Mabbott H 18.4 Mis Mises H 18.4 Moo Moore H 18.4 Neu Neurath H 18.4 Pop Popper H 18.4 Rei Reichenbach H 18.4 Qui Quine H 18.4 Rus Russell H 18.4 Ryl Ryle H 18.4 Sch Schlick H 18.4 Wai Waismann H 18.4 Win Winch
39TH 18.5 Pragmatism – in alphabetical order: H 18.5 Alg General H 18.5 Dew Dewey H 18.5 Jam James H 18.5 Lew C.I. Lewis H 18.5 Mea G.H. Mead H 18.5 Pei C.S.Peirce H 18.5 Ror Rorty H 18.5 Ros Rosenzweig H 18.5 Sch Schiller
39TH 18.6 Existentialism – in alphabetical order: H 18.6 Alg General H 18.6 Bea de Beauvoir H 18.6 Bol Bollnow H 18.6 Cam Camus H 18.6 Gui Guignon H 18.6 Jas Jaspers H 18.6 Mar Marcel H 18.6 Peu van Peursen H 18.6 Sch Schrag H 18.6 Sar Sartre H 18.6 War Warnock H 18.6 Wei Weill
39TH 18.7 Marxism – in alphabetical order: H 18.7 Alg General H 18.7 Alt Althusser H 18.7 Blo Bloch H 18.7 Buc Bucharin H 18.7 Die Dietzgen H 18.7 Euc Euchner H 18.7 Gra Gramsci H 18.7 Kau Kautszky H18.7 Kol Kolakowski H 18.7 Luk Lukács H 18.7 Ma1 Marcuse H 18.7 Ma2 Marx H 18.7 Ple Plechanov H 18.7 Vol della Volpe H18.7 Ziz Zizek
39TH 18.8 Hermeneutics H 18.8 Alg General H 18.8 Bar Barthes H 18.8 Dil Dilthey H 18.8 Fra Frank H 18.8 Gad Gadamer H 18.8 Ric Ricoeur
39TH 18.9 Others – for texts and commentaries of other philosophers, e.g.: Adorno: see SP 2.5.1 H 18.9 Are Arendt H 18.9 Bad Badiou H 18.9 Bat Bataille H 18.9 Ben Benjamin H 18.9 Ber Bergson H 18.9 Bou Bourdieu H 18.9 Bra Bradley H 18.9 Bub Buber H 18.9 Cav Cavall H 18.9 Cho Chomsky H 18.9 Dar Darwin
39T Deleuze: see SP 2.5.4 H 18.9 Den Dennett
39T Derrida: see SP 2.5.5 H 18.9 Dri Driesch H 18.9 Fey Feyerabend H 18.9 Gas Ortega Y Gasset Habermas: see SP 2.5.1 H 18.9 Har Hartman H 18.9 Hey Heymans Lyotard: see SP 2.5.4 H 18.9 Noz Nozzick H 18.9 Poi Poincare H 18.9 Ple Plessner H 18.9 Raw Rawls H 18.9 Rei Reinach H 18.9 Sai Said H 18.9 San Santayana H 18.9 Sea Searle H 18.9 Slo Sloterdijk H 18.9 Tay Taylor H 18.9 Whi Whitehead
39TH 18.10 Heidegger H.18.10.1 Texts - Heid H 18.10.2 Commentaries - Heid
39TH 18.11 Nietzsche H 18.11.1 Texts - Niet H 18.11.2 Commentaries - Niet
H 18.12 Wittgenstein H.18.12.1 Texts - Witt H 18.12.2 Commentaries - Witt H 18.13 Foucault H.18.13.1 Texts - Fouc H 18.13.2 Commentaries - Fouc Non-Western philosophy
N General
NA Indian Philosophy (classical)
NB Chinese philosophy (classical) NB 1 General NB 2 Confucius NB 3 Lao-Tse
NC Modern philosophies of the Far East NC 1 China NC 2 Japan
ND Modern African philosophy
NE Modern Arabic or Islamic philosophy (Middle Ages, see H 14)
SP Practical and applied philosophy
SP 1 Ethics
SP 1.1 General SP 1.1.1 Introductions SP 1.1.2 History of ethics SP 1.2. Meta-ethics SP 1.2.1 General (Introductions) SP 1.2.2 Value theory SP 1.2.3 Ethics and action SP 1.2.4 The issue of foundation (intuitionism, pluralism, naturalisme, relativism, emotivism) SP 1.3 Normative ethics SP 1.3.1 General (Introductions) SP 1.3.2 Consequentialism (hedonism, utilitarism) SP 1.3.3 Deontology (duties, Kantianism, contract theory) SP 1.3.4 Virtues and care ethics SP 1.3.5 Other (natural law, postmodern ethics, pluralism, pragmatism) SP 1.4 Applied ethics SP 1.4.1 General (Introductions) SP 1.4.2 Medical ethics SP 1.4.3 Business and finance ethics SP 1.4.4 Bio- and environmental ethics SP 1.4.5 Economical issues SP 1.4.6 War and peace SP 1.4.7 Other SP 1.5. Ethics and sciences SP 1.5.1 Ethics and economics SP 1.5.2 Ethics and psychology SP 1.5.3 Ethics and biology SP 1.6 Other
SP 2 Social philosophy
SP 2.1 Introductions SP 2.2 General SP 2.3 Historical SP 2.4 Issues SP 2.4.1 (Free) Market / economics SP 2.4.2 Language / discourse SP 2.4.3 Identity / subjectivity SP 2.4.4 Modernity SP 2.4.5 Intellectuals SP 2.4.6 Other SP 2.5 Schools / methods SP 2.5.1 Frankfurter Schule / Critical Theory: Adorno, Habermas SP 2.5.2 Systems theory / Functionalism SP 2.5.3 Structuralism SP 2.5.4 Postmodernism: Deleuze, Lyotard SP 2.5.5 Deconstructivism: Derrida SP 2.5.6 Other
SP 3 Political philosophy
SP 3.1 Introductions SP 3.2 General SP 3.3 Historical studies SP 3.4 Issues SP 3.4.1 Democracy (also civil society) SP 3.4.2 Freedom SP 3.4.3 Justice SP 3.4.4 (Human) rights SP 3.4.5 Nations, cultures (incl. liberation movements, multiculturalism) SP 3.4.7 Other SP 3.5 Schools SP 3.5.1 Liberalism (social liberalism, neo-liberalism, etc.) SP 3.5.2 Marxism / socialism SP 3.5.3 Communitarism SP 3.5.4 (Neo-)Republicanism SP 3.5.5 Other (fascism, conservatism, anarchism, etc.)
39TSP 4 Aesthetics
SP 4.1 General; iconography SP 4.2 History of aesthetics SP 4.3 Aesthetics in arts: painting, music, etc. SP 4.4 Other
9TSP 5 Philosophy9T39T of law SP 6 Cultural philosophy
SP 6.1 General SP 6.2 Media (also: internet) SP 6.3 Technological / material culture SP 6.4 Globalization SP 6.5 Post colonialism SP 6.6 Others
SP 7 Feminist philosophy
SP 7.1 General SP 7.2 History SP 7.3 Issues SP 7.3.1 Ethics SP 7.3.2 Politics / Nation SP 7.3.3 Public & private space, spheres, etc. SP 7.3.4 Imaging / representation SP 7.3.5 Masculinity SP 7.3.6 Epistemology / sciences SP 7.3.7 Other SP 7.4 Schools SP 7.4.1 Existentialism SP 7.4.2 Marxism SP 7.4.3 Psycho-analytical SP 7.4.4 Postmodernism SP 7.4.5 Other
SP 8 Envrionmental philosophy
SP 8.1 General SP 8.2 History of environmental philosophy SP 8.3 Concepts of nature SP 8.4 Animal-ethics ST Theoretical philosophy
ST 1 Metaphilosophy and ideological criticism of philosophy
ST 1.1 General ST 1.2 Metaphilosophy ST 1.3 Ideological criticism of philosophy
ST 2 Ontology / metaphysics / conceptual structures
ST 2.1 General ST 2.2 Ontology ST 2.3 Metaphysics ST 2.4 Conceptual structures, history of ideas
ST 3 Rationality / Epistemology
ST 3.1 General (Introductions, surveys, readers) ST 3.2 Historical (general, after 1940) ST 3.3 Rationality ST 3.4 Justification, induction, “knowledge and belief”, conviction ST 3.5 Meaning, intentionality ST 3.6 Truth ST 3.7 Experience, observation, intern / extern world, ontology, memory ST 3.8 Probability ST 3.9 Ideological criticism ST 3.10 Causality, teleology, evolution ST 3.11 Infinity, space, time ST 3.12 Epistemological positions: realism scepticism, idealism, materialism, physicalism, marxism ST 3.13 Other epistemological issues
ST 5 Philosophy of science
ST 5.1.1 General ST 5.1.2 Special issues (covering law-models, reductionism, explanation) ST 5.2 Philosophy of natural science – General ST 5.2.1 Philosophy of physics (incl. natural philosophy) ST 5.2.2 Philosophy of biology ST 5.2.3 Philosophy of medicine ST 5.3 Philosophy of linguistics, semiotics ST 5.4 Philosophy of social and human sciences – General ST 5.4.1 Philosophy of social and human sciences ST 5.4.2 History of social and human sciences ST 5.4.3 Philosophy of sociology ST 5.4.4 Philosophy of economics ST 5.4.5 Philosophy of psychology ST 5.5 Philosophy of hermeneutics (cf. H 18.8: Hermeneutics)
ST 6 Scientific and technological research
ST 6.1 General th ST 6.2 History of science (before 1639TP P39T century, see H 2.3, H 9.2.4 and H 13.4) ST 6.3 Sociology of science (incl. “science of science”; Wissensoziologie) ST 6.4 Economics of science ST 6.5 History of social sciences ST 6.6 Psychology of science ST 6.7 History of technics ST 6.8 Philosophy of technics
ST 7 Anthropology and Worldviews
ST 7.1 General; philosophical anthropology ST 7.1.1 Historical and systematic (e.g. history of ideas) ST 7.1.2 Philosophical anthropology – General ST 7.1.3 Philosophical anthropology – special issues ST 7.1.4 Philosophical anthropology in biology and medicine ST 7.1.5 Philosophical anthropology in humanities (social sciences, psychology, economics, cultural anthropology, political theory, law) ST 7.1.6 Other (e.g. literature, religion) ST 8 Philosophy of mind
ST 8.1 General ST 8.1.1 Behaviourism ST 8.1.2 Identity ST 8.1.3 Functionalism ST 8.1.4 Internalism and externalism ST 8.1.5 Reductionism and non-reductionism ST 8.1.6 Consciousness – philosophical ST 8.2 Cognitive science (General) ST 8.2.1 Traditional, computational ST 8.2.2 Neural ST 8.2.3 Psychological ST 8.2.4 Evolutionary ST 8.2.5 Embodied ST 8.2.6 Consciousness– empirical ST 8.3 Behaviour and action – General ST 8.3.1 Explanations of behaviour ST 8.3.2 Theory of action
ST 9 Philosophy of religion
ST 10 Auxiliary sciences
ST 10.1 Mathematics ST 10.1.1 Inductive logic and probability ST 10.1.2 System theory (information theory, game theory, cybernetics, decision theory) ST 10.1.3 Other ST 10.2 Linguistics ST 10.3 Other auxiliary sciences ST 10.4 Cognitive sciences – General ST 10.4.1 Psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive and perceptual psychology ST 10.4.2 Sociological and anthropological aspects of perception, language, conceptual structures, etc., sociolinguistics ST 11 Philosophy of language
ST 11.1 General, incl. philosophy of common language ST 11.2 Others, not-formal: meaning, semantics, pragmatics (American, Polish, Scandinavian schools etc.) ST 11.3 Philosophy of language (others) STL Logic
STL 1 Algemene werken
STL 1.1 Surveys, handbooks STL 1.2 Introductions, textbooks STL 1.2.1 Philosophical STL 1.2.2 Mathematical STL 1.2.3 Others
STL 2 History of logic
STL 2.1 Surveys, handbooks (incl. Middle Ages) STL 2.2 Special periods or persons STL 2.2.1 Before Frege (for Antiquity see H 2.1, and Middle Ages see H 9.2.1) STL 2.2.2 Frege and later
STL 3 Philosophical logic – General
STL 3.1 Philosophy of logic STL 3.2 Logical analysis of philosophical systems STL 3.3 Intentional logic, general STL 3.3.1 Modal logic STL 3.3.2 Temporal logic STL 3.3.3 Deontic logic STL 3.3.4 Miscellaneous (epistemological logic, relevance logics & counterfactuals, conditionals) STL 3.4 Many-valued logic
STL 4 Mathematical logic
STL 4.1 General STL 4.2 Model theory STL 4.3 Proof theory STL 4.4 Recursion theory, computability theory STL 4.5 Set theory STL 4.6 Intuitionistic logic STL 4.7 Foundations of mathematics
STL 5 Formal logical analysis of language
STL 5.1 General STL 5.2 Formal syntax STL 5.3 Formal semantics STL 5.4 Formal pragmatics
STL 6 Applied logic
STL 6.1 Physics (e.g. quantumlogic) STL 6.2 Law STL 6.3 Others STL 6.4 (Logic and) IT
STL 7 Argumentation
STL 7.1 General, textbooks, rhetoric STL 7.2 Definitions, meaning STL 7.3 Fallacies STL 7.4 Dialogue STL 7.5 Empirical logic