📚 First Philosophy

Books with first philosophy on their catalogue record, first published between 1642 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject first philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 244 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
	Discours de la méthode	René Descartes	1644	163
	Meditationes de prima philosophia	René Descartes	1642	60
	Appearance and reality	F. H. Bradley	1893	19
	The Relevance of Whitehead	Ivor Leclerc	1961	11
	Chance, Love, and Logic	Charles Sanders Peirce	1923	9
	Studies in metaphilosophy	Morris Lazerowitz	1964	7
	Real metaphysics	Hallvard Lillehammer	2002	7
	Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics	Vasilis Politis	2004	7
	Meditations on First Philosophy	Rene Descartes	2007	7
	Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy	Claudia Baracchi	2007	7
	Metaphysics and God	Kevin Timpe	2009	7
	Squaring the Circle in Descartes' Meditations	Stephen I. Wagner	2014	7
	Meditations on First Philosophy	Rene Descartes	2009	6
	Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy	Kurt Brandhorst	2010	6
	Theories of causality	John Losee	2011	6
	Descartes : Meditations on First Philosophy	John Cottingham	2013	6
	Descartes' Meditations	Karen Detlefsen	2013	6
	Self, Reason, and Freedom	Andrea Christofidou	2013	6
	Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition	Stephen Gersh	2020	6
	Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation	Ludger Jansen	2021	6
	Il concetto di filosofia prima e l'unità della metafisica di Aristotele	Giovanni Reale	1961	5
	Truth and the World	Jonathan Tallant	2017	5
	The Metaphysics of Descartes	L. J. Beck	1965	4
	Starting with Descartes	C. G. Prado	2009	4
	Knowledge First?	Aidan McGlynn	2014	4
	The elements of mind	Henry Jamyn Brooks	1902	3
	A Cartesian Introduction to Philosophy	Fred Feldman	1986	3
	A guided tour of René Descartes' Meditations on first philosophy	Christopher Biffle	1989	3
	The Blackwell guide to Descartes' Meditations	Stephen Gaukroger	2006	3
	Epekeina tou henos	Valerio Napoli	2008	3

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

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