📚 British Philosophy

Books with british philosophy on their catalogue record, first published between 1739 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject british philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 243 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A treatise of human nature	David Hume	1739	113
	First principles	Herbert Spencer	1860	54
	The principles of moral and political philosophy	William Paley	1785	11
	The collected works of F.H. Bradley	F. H. Bradley	1999	11
	Fly and the fly-bottle	Ved Mehta	1962	10
	British Empirical Philosophers	A. J. Ayer	1968	9
	Metaphysical Animals	Clare Mac Cumhaill	2022	8
	A hundred years of British philosophy	Rudolf Metz	1938	7
	English philosophy since 1900	G. J. Warnock	1958	7
	Hobbes	Richard Tuck	1989	7
	Contradiction of Enlightenment	Nigel Tubbs	1997	6
	Practical essays	Alexander Bain	1884	5
	Religious thought in England in the nineteenth century	Hunt, John	1896	5
	The idealistic argument in recent British and American philosophy	Cunningham, Gustavus Watts	1933	5
	Selected writings of Thomas de Quincey	Thomas De Quincey	1937	5
	A hundred years of British philosophy	Rudolf Metz	1938	5
	David Hume and the eighteenth century British thought	Chūō Daigaku. Toshokan	1986	5
	Philip Kitcher	Marie I. Kaiser	2013	5
	Witcraft	Jonathan Rée	2019	5
	Impressions of English literature	W. J. Turner	1944	4
	Modern British philosophy	Bryan Magee	1971	4
	New British philosophy	Julian Baggini	2002	4
	Books of Secrets	Allison Kavey	2007	4
	Language lost and found	Niklas Forsberg	2013	4
	From Existentialism to Metaphysics	Benedikt Paul Göcke	2021	4
	Metaphysica nova et vetusta	Laurie, Simon Somerville	1884	3
	British empirical philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and J.S. Mill	A. J. Ayer	1952	3
	Bertrand Russell and the British tradition in philosophy	David Francis Pears	1967	3
	A critique of British empiricism	Fraser Cowley	1968	3
	The good self and the bad self	Wollheim, Richard	1976	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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