Histories of Philosophy

Listed below are some of the better histories of philosophy available. This list makes no claims
to be exhaustive or exclusive. Suggestions for additions are welcomed.

Ancient Philosophy
Armstrong, A. H. (2007). Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Brunschvig, J., & Lloyd, G. E. R. (Eds.). (2000). Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Johansen, K. F. (1998). A History of Ancient Philosophy: From the Beginnings to St. Augustine.
New York: Routledge.

Kenny, A. (2006). Ancient Philosophy. A New History of Western Philosophy (Vols. 1-4, Vol. 1).
New York: Oxford University Press.

Medieval Philosophy
Armstrong, A. H. (2007). Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Husik, I. (1974). A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy. New York: Atheneum.

Ierodiakonou, K. (Ed.). (2002). Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources. New York: Oxford
University Press.

Kenny, A. (2005). Medieval Philosophy. A New History of Western Philosophy (Vols. 1-4, Vol. 2).
New York: Oxford University Press.

Kretzmann, N., Kenny, A., Pinborg, J., & Stump, E. (Eds.). (1982). Cambridge History of Later
Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of
Scholasticism, 1100-1600. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Maurer, A. (1982). Medieval Philosophy. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies.

Early Modern Philosophy

Atherton, M. (1994). Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett Publishing
Company.

Garber, D., & Ayers, M. (Eds.). (1998). Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy
(Vols. 1-2). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Haakonssen, K. (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy (Vols. 1-2).

New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kenny, A. (2006). The Rise of Modern Philosophy. A New History of Western Philosophy (Vols. 1-
4, Vol. 3). New York: Oxford University Press.

Contemporary Philosophy
Baldwin, T. (2003). The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945. New York: Cambridge
University Press.

Floyd, J. (2009). Recent Themes in the History of Early Analytic Philosophy. Journal of the
History of Philosophy, 47(2), 157-200.

Floyd, J., & Shieh, S. (2001). Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century
Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

Friedman, M. (2000). A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger. Peru, IL: Open
Court Press.

Gordon, P. E. (2004). Continental Divide: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger at Davos, 1929 —
An Allegory of Intellectual History. Modern Intellectual History, 1(2), 219-248.

Kenny, A. (2007). Philosophy in the Modern World. A New History of Western Philosophy (Vols.
1-4, Vol. 4). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Pietarinen, A. (2009). Significs and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy. Journal of the History of
Ideas, 70(3), 467-490.

Soames, S. (2003). Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (Vols. 1-2). Princeton
University Press.

Other Resources
Fakhry, M. (2004). A History of Islamic Philosophy (3rd ed.). New York: Columbia University
Press.

Russell, B. (2004). A History of Western Philosophy. New York: Routledge.

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