Introduction Thematic Table of Contents 1. PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY 2. SKEPTICISM 3. EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE 4. FEMINISM 5. EDUCATION 6. HABITUATION AND CUSTOM 7. HAPPINESS 8.
PASSIONS 9. LOVE 10. SELF-KNOWLEDGE, PERSONS, AND PERSONAL IDENTITY 11. HUMAN NATURE, INCLUDING HUMAN VS. (OTHER) ANIMALS 12. STATE OF NATURE 13. MORAL PHILOSOPHY 14. VITRUE AND VICE 15.
FREE WILL, HUMAN FREEDOM, AND AUTONOMY 16. GOD AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 17. METAPHYSICS 18. SUBSTANCE 19. MIND-BODY UNION AND INTERACTION 20. CAUSATION 21. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 22. EPISTEMOLOGY 23.
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 24. KNOWLEDGE FROM EXPERIENCE 25. PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION Timeline of Publication Dates 1. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) To the Reader Of Cannibals Apology for Raymond Sebond 2. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning New Organon 3. Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) The Equality of Men and Women 4. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan Of Liberty and Necessity 5. René Descartes (1596-1650) Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well, Parts 1 and 2 Website: Discourse on the Method, Parts 3-6 Meditations on First Philosophy Website: Meditations on First Philosophy, Dedicatory Letter and Preface to the Reader 6.
Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) A Dissertation on the Natural Capacity of Women for Study and Learning 7. Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) Conversations upon Several Subjects: Of the Knowledge of Others, and of Ourselves 8. Henry More (1614-1687) The Immortality of the Soul 9. Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) The True Intellectual System of the Universe 10. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) Correspondence with Descartes 11. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) Poems and Fancies Philosophical Letters Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy Grounds of Natural Philosophy 12. Anne Conway (1631-1679) The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 13. Gabrielle Suchon (1631-1703) Treatise on Ethics and Politics On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen 14.
John Locke (1632-1704) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Books I and II Website: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV Some Thoughts Concerning Education 15. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Ethics 16. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) Micrographia 17. Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719) Dialogues: On Reason, On Constraint, On the Drawbacks of Marriage, On the Education at Saint-Cyr Addresses to Students: Of the Utility of Reflection, Of the Single Life Addresses to Faculty: Of the Education of Ladies 18. Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) The Search After Truth 19. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Principia Mathematica 20. G.W.
Leibniz (1646-1716) Discourse on Metaphysics The New System of the Nature of Substances Theodicy: Summary of Arguments Website: The Monadology 21. Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) Historical and Critical Dictionary: Spinoza Website: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Manicheans, Rorarius 22. François Poulain de la Barre (1647-1723) A Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes On the Education of Ladies for Training the Mind in the Sciences and Moral Judgement 23. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (c. 1648-1695) Let us pretend I am happy Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz 24. Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham (1659-1708) Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life Correspondence with Leibniz 25. Mary Astell (1666-1731) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Some Reflections upon Marriage 26. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) The Fable of the Bees 27.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author Website: An Inquiry concerning Virtue 28. Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) Remarks upon some Writers 29. George Berkeley (1685-1753) Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, The First Dialogue Website: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, The Second Dialogue 30. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions 31. Voltaire (1694-1778) Le Micromégas 32. Anton Amo (c. 1703-after 1752) Treatise on the Art of Soberly and Accurately Philosophizing 33. Émilie Du Ch'telet (1706-1749) The Foundations of Physics Discourse on Happiness 34.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) Man a Machine 35. Thomas Reid (1710-1796) An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense 36. David Hume (1711-1776) An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Sections I-V, VII-IX Website: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Sections X-XII An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals 37. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men 38. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Letter on the Blind, for the Use of Those Who See 39. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714-1780) Treatise on Sensations 40. Adam Smith (1723-1790) The Theory of Moral Sentiments 41. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics What Is Enlightenment? Website: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals 42.
James Beattie (1735-1803) An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth 43. Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822) Letters on Sympathy: Letters to C***, on The Theory of Moral Sentiments Permissions Acknowledgments.