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Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Order
70
Books
1583
First Book
2011
Latest Book
429
Years
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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series? Start with "Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) (-380)" (1583) and follow publication order through all 70 books.
The complete Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
1
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) (-380)
1583
2
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield)
0
3
Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford)
0
4
Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
0
5
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
0
6
Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood,Raphael Woolf)
0
7
On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Raphael Woolf)
0
8
Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes,Julia Annas,Sextus Empiricus)
0
9
On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna)
0
10
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne)
0
11
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (By: John Cottingham)
0
12
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld,Jill Vance Buroker)
0
13
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (By: Margaret Cavendish,Eileen O'Neill)
0
14
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza,Brad S. Gregory,Samuel Shirley,Maarten van Buuren)
0
15
The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche,Thomas M. Lennon)
0
16
Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner)
0
17
Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott,Nicholas Jolley,Nicolas Malebranche)
0
18
Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
0
19
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley,Desmond M. Clarke)
0
20
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony AshleyCooper,Lawrence E. Klein)
0
21
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (By: Ralph Cudworth,Sarah Hutton)
0
22
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (By: Stephen Buckle)
0
23
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (By: Adam Smith)
0
24
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant,Robert B. Louden,Manfred Kühn)
0
25
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (By: Immanuel Kant,MichaelFriedman)
0
26
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant,Mary J. Gregor,Andrews Reath)
0
27
Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood,Garrett Green)
0
28
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (By: Immanuel Kant)
0
29
Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis,Jane Kneller)
0
30
Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Michael Baur)
0
31
The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant,Lara Denis,Mary J. Gregor)
0
32
The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Guenter Zöller)
0
33
Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard E. Crouter)
0
34
Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (By: Stephen Lord)
0
35
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine,Terry P. Pinkard,Howard Pollack-Milgate)
0
36
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)
0
37
Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard,Sylvia Walsh,C. Stephen Evans)
0
38
Untimely Meditations (With: Daniel Breazeale)
0
39
Daybreak (With: Brian Leiter,Maudemarie Clark)
0
40
The Gay Science (With: Bernard Williams,Josefine Nauckhoff)
0
41
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
0
42
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (With: Judith Norman,Rolf-Peter Horstmann)
0
43
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert,Anne Conway,Taylor Corse)
1982
44
Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon,Christine F. Salazar,Sachiko Kusukawa)
1989
45
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (By: Thomas Hobbes,Vere C. Chappell,John Bramhall)
1995
46
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson)
1996
47
A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle,Michael Hunter,Edward B. Davis)
1996
48
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn)
1997
49
The World and Other Writings (By: René Descartes,Stephen Gaukroger)
1998
50
Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder,Michael N. Forster)
1998
51
Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie)
1998
52
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
1999
53
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas,E.M. Atkins,Thomas Williams)
1999
54
Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings (By: Voltaire)
2000
55
Philosophical & Theological Writings (By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
2001
56
Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden)
2002
57
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (By: J.M. Bernstein)
2002
58
Writings from the Early Notebooks
2003
59
Writings from the Late Notebooks
2003
60
Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton,Andrew Janiak)
2004
61
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (By: Immanuel Kant,Gary Hatfield)
2004
62
Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler)
2005
63
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
2005
64
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (By: Richard Bett)
2005
65
Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow)
2006
66
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (By: Peter King)
2006
67
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
2007
68
Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (By: David Hume)
2007
69
Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard)
2010
70
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson)
2011
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