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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

10 best books like The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Ted Honderich): Politics, A History of Western Philosophy, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, The Laws of Plato, Meditations on First Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

Politics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0486414248
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
A History of Western Philosophy
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0671201581
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
AuthorWill Durant
ISBN0671739166
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy
AuthorBryan Magee
Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with 15 contemporary writers and philosophers provide an account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers....
The Laws of Plato
AuthorPlato
ISBN0226671100
The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the practical consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian Republic. In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful...
Meditations on First Philosophy
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0872201929
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
AuthorRobert Audi
ISBN0521637228
Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, and Spanish underway) this second edition offers an even richer, more comprehensive, and more up-to-date survey of ideas and...
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction
AuthorWilliam G. Lycan
ISBN0415171164
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction,...
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
AuthorSimon Blackburn
ISBN0198610130
Comprehensive and authoritative the Dictionary of Philosophy contains over 2,500 entries, including biographies of nearly 500 influential philosophers. The dictionary provides wide-ranging and lively coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from Chinese, Indian,...
The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
AuthorJulian Baggini
ISBN0631228748
I've been looking about for a good reference-work on the conceptual tools used in philosophy, and even a bit curious about the tools used by those often dismissed as philosophical cranks.

This book is well-organized and well-describes, in the limits imposed by its size, the methods and ideas...
Aristotle for Everybody
AuthorMortimer J. Adler
ISBN0684838230
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting Aristotle's...
Mental Illness and Psychology
AuthorMichel Foucault
ISBN0520059190
This seminal early work of Foucault is indispensable to understanding his development as a thinker. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, Mental Illness and Psychology delineates the shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during this period. The first iteration reflects the philosopher's early...
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