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• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
o The New Organon (1620)
• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
o An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780)
• George Berkeley (1685-1753)
o Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709/1733)
o The Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
o Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
o Alciphron (1732)
• Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
o The Origin of Forms and Qualities, Part 1 (1666)
o The Grounds for and Excellence of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy (1674)
o The Excellence of Theology, compared with Natural Philosophy (1674)
• Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
o Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• Joseph Butler (1692-1752)
o Exchange of Letters with Samuel Clarke (1713-4)
o Preface and Five Sermons from Fifteen Sermons (1726)
• Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)
o Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1704)
o Exchange of Letters with Joseph Butler (1713-4)
o Exchange of Papers with Leibniz (1715-6)
• Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794)
o Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Advances of the Human Mind (1795)
• Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
o The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)
• Anne Conway (1631-1679)
o The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692)
• René Descartes (1596-1650)
o Selected Correspondence (1619-1650)
o Discourse on the Method (1637)
o Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
o Objections to the Meditations, and Descartes' Replies (1642)
o Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth (1643-9)
o Principles of Philosophy (1644)
o Conversation with Burman (1648)
o Passions of the Soul (1649)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
o The Freedom of the Will (1754)
o A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue (1765)
• Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822)
o Letters on Sympathy (1798)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
o Leviathan (1651)
• David Hume (1711-1776)
o A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
o Abstract of the Treatise of Human Nature (1740)
o An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
o An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
o Five Essays (1757)
o Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
• Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)
o An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, and Design (1725)
o An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Morality (1725)
• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
o The Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787)
o Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic (1783)
o Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
o Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786)
o Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason (1793)
o Toward Perpetual Peace (1795)
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
o Man—Machine (1748)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
o Freedom and Possibility (1680)
o Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684)
o Leibniz's Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-7)
o Contingency (1686)
o First Truths (1686)
o Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
o Real-Life Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (1695)
o Essay on Dynamics (1695)
o A New System (1695)
o Leibniz's Exchange of Views with Pierre Bayle (1697-1702)
o The Ultimate Origin on Things (1697)
o Nature Itself (1698)
o New Essays on Human Understanding (1705)
o Making the Case for God (1710)
o Principles of Nature and Grace (1714)
o Monadology (1714)
o Leibniz's Exchange of Papers with Clarke (1715-6)
• John Locke (1632-1704)
o Second Treatise of Government (1689)
o Toleration (1689)
o Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
o The Conduct of the Understanding (1706)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
o The Prince (1532)
• Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
o Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688)
• Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
o The Fable of the Bees (1732)
• Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
o Jerusalem: or Religious Power and Judaism (1782)
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
o Essays on Bentham and Coleridge (1838)
o A System of Logic (1843)
o Liberty (1859)
o Utilitarianism (1863)
o The Subjection of Women (1869)
o Three Essays on Religion (1873)
o Autobiography (1873)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
o Essays, Book I (1580)
o Essays, Book II (1580)
o Essays, Book III (1588)
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
o Descartes, Space and Body (1666)
o A New Theory of Light and Colours (1671)
• William Paley (1743-1805)
o Natural Theology (1802)
• Richard Price (1723-1791)
o A Review of the Principle Questions in Morals (1758)
• Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
o An Inquiry into the Human Mind (1764)
o Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785)
o Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
o The Social Contract (1762)
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
o Enthusiasm (1708)
o The Freedom of Wit and Humour (1709)
o The Moralists (1709)
o Soliloquy: Advice to an Author (1710)
o An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (1711)
• Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)
o The Methods of Ethics (1874)
• Adam Smith (1723-1790)
o The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
o An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
• Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
o Correspondence (1661-1676)
o Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1665)
o Treatise on Theology and Politics (1669)
• Voltaire (1694-1778)
o Treatise on Tolerance (1763)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
o A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)