Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) (-380)
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Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield)
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Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford)
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Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
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Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood,Raphael Woolf)
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On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Raphael Woolf)
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Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes,Julia Annas,Sextus Empiricus)
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On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna)
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Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne)
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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (By: John Cottingham)
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Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld,Jill Vance Buroker)
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Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (By: Margaret Cavendish,Eileen O'Neill)
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Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza,Brad S. Gregory,Samuel Shirley,Maarten van Buuren)
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The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche,Thomas M. Lennon)
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Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner)
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Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott,Nicholas Jolley,Nicolas Malebranche)
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Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
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Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley,Desmond M. Clarke)
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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony AshleyCooper,Lawrence E. Klein)
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A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (By: Ralph Cudworth,Sarah Hutton)
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Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (By: Stephen Buckle)
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments (By: Adam Smith)
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Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant,Robert B. Louden,Manfred Kühn)
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Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (By: Immanuel Kant,MichaelFriedman)
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Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant,Mary J. Gregor,Andrews Reath)
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Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood,Garrett Green)
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Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (By: Immanuel Kant)
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Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis,Jane Kneller)
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Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Michael Baur)
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The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant,Lara Denis,Mary J. Gregor)
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The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Guenter Zöller)
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Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard E. Crouter)
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Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (By: Stephen Lord)
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On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine,Terry P. Pinkard,Howard Pollack-Milgate)
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On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species (By: Wilhelm von Humboldt,Peter Heath,Michael Losonsky)
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Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard,Sylvia Walsh,C. Stephen Evans)
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Untimely Meditations (With: Daniel Breazeale)
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Daybreak (With: Brian Leiter,Maudemarie Clark)
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The Gay Science (With: Bernard Williams,Josefine Nauckhoff)
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (With: Judith Norman,Rolf-Peter Horstmann)
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The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert,Anne Conway,Taylor Corse)
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Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon,Christine F. Salazar,Sachiko Kusukawa)
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Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (By: Thomas Hobbes,Vere C. Chappell,John Bramhall)
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La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson)
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A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle,Michael Hunter,Edward B. Davis)
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Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn)
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The World and Other Writings (By: René Descartes,Stephen Gaukroger)
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Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder,Michael N. Forster)
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Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie)
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The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
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Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas,E.M. Atkins,Thomas Williams)
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Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings (By: Voltaire)
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Philosophical & Theological Writings (By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
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Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden)
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Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (By: J.M. Bernstein)
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Writings from the Early Notebooks
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Writings from the Late Notebooks
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Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton,Andrew Janiak)
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Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (By: Immanuel Kant,Gary Hatfield)
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Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler)
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Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
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Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (By: Richard Bett)
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Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow)
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Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (By: Peter King)
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Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
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Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (By: David Hume)
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Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard)
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Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson)
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The recommended reading order for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series is publication order: 1. Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) (-380) (1583), 2. Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield), 3. Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford), 4. Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp), 5. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp), and 65 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
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