Library Guides: Philosophy: Books

Digital collections

Past masters
Past Masters is a collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy, covering Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austen, Berkeley, Descartes, Hume, Locke, Plato, Spinoza, and the continental rationalists.

Texts from early modern philosophy
On this site you will find versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.

Early English books online
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125 000 English titles from the period 1473-1700.
Eighteenth century collections online
This collections aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, and other works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.
Electronic enlightenment
Offers access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.
Library of Latin texts online
Contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), including Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Gregory the Great etc.

Find books on Philosophy in the Central Library at these call numbers:

B - Philosophy (General)

BC - Logic

BD - Speculative Philosophy

BH - Aesthetics

BJ - Ethics