LibGuides: Philosophy: Philosophers -- General; A to F

Reference Books

Why Use a Reference Book?

Reference books are designed to provide you with an introduction to a given topic.

Who's Who at Right

Theodor Adorno
b. 1903 — d. 1969
German
Anselm of Canterbury
b. 1033/34 — d. 1109
Italian
Thomas Aquinas
b. 1224/25 — d. 1274
Italian
Hannah Arendt
b. 1906 — d. 1975
German, American
Aristotle
b. 384 BCE — d. 322 BCE
Greek
Raymond Aron
b. 1905 — d. 1983
French
Augustine
b. 354 — d. 430
Roman
Alain Badiou
b. 1937 —
French
Simone de Beauvoir
b. 1908 — d. 1986
French
Robert N. Bellah
b. 1927 — d. 2013
American
Jeremy Bentham
b. 1748 — d. 1832
English
George Berkeley
b. 1685 — d. 1753
Irish
Pierre Bourdieu
b. 1930 — d. 2002
French
Franz Brentano
b. 1838 — d. 1917
German
Jean (John) Buridan
b. 1300 — d. 1358
French
Albert Camus
b. 1913 — d. 1960
French
Cornelius Castoriadis
b. 1922 — d. 1997
Greek, French
Noam Chomsky
b. 1928 —
American
R. G. Collingwood
b. 1889 — d. 1943
English
Auguste Comte
b. 1798 — d. 1857
French
Confucius
b. 551 BCE — d. 479 BCE
Chinese
Gilles Deleuze
b. 1925 — d. 1995
French
Jacques Derrida
b. 1930 — d. 2004
French
René Descartes
b. 1596 — d. 1650
French
John Dewey
b. 1859 — d. 1952
American
Émile Durkheim
b. 1858 — d. 1917
French
Michel Foucault
b. 1926 — d. 1984
French
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
b. 1762 — d. 1814
German
Luciano Floridi
b. 1964 —
Italian
Gottlob Frege
b. 1848 — d. 1925
German
Paulo Freire
b. 1921 — d. 1997
Brazilian
Friedrich Froebel
b. 1782 — d. 1852
German

PHILOSOPHERS (GENERAL)

PHILOSOPHERS -- A to F

ADORNO

ANSELM

Anselm : a very short introduction (2022)

AQUINAS

ARENDT

ARISTOTLE

ARON

The Anthem companion to Raymond Aron (2022)

AUGUSTINE

BADIOU

BEAUVOIR

A companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2017)

BELLAH

The Anthem companion to Robert N. Bellah (2019)

BENTHAM

BERKELEY

BOURDIEU

BRENTANO

BURIDAN

Questions on the soul by John Buridan and others : a companion to John Buridan's philosophy of mind (2017)

CAMUS

Albert Camus : a very short introduction (2020)

CASTORIADIS

Cornelius Castoriadis : key concepts (2014)

CHOMSKY

COLLINGWOOD

Collingwood's The idea of history : a reader's guide (2013)

COMTE

The Anthem companion to Auguste Comte (2017)

CONFUCIUS

DELEUZE

DERRIDA

DESCARTES

DEWEY

The handbook of Dewey's educational theory and practice (2019)

DURKHEIM

The Anthem companion to Émile Durkheim (2022)

FOUCAULT

FICHTE

FLORIDI

Ethics, law and the politics of information : a guide to the philosophy of Luciano Floridi (2017)

FREGE

Frege : a guide for the perplexed (2012)

FREIRE

The Wiley handbook of Paulo Freire (2019)

FROEBEL

The Routledge international handbook of Froebel and early childhood practice (2018)