The Greatest Books of All Time on Epistemology

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
458 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
543 Discourse on Method Rene Descartes 1637 French French
1526 A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1945 British English
1803 The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1912 British English
1855 The Order of Things Michel Foucault 1966 French French
2030 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Nicolaus Copernicus 1543 Polish Latin
2079 Rationalism in Politics Michael Oakeshott 1962 British English
2635 Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl 1900 German German
3560 Insight Bernard Lonergan 1957 Canadian English
4990 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
5501 Steps To An Ecology Of Mind Gregory Bateson 1972 American English
5690 Sur La Philosophie Africaine Paulin Hountondji 1976 French French
6951 The Invention Of Africa V. Y. Mudimbe 1988 Congolese English
8262 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
8511 From A Logical Point Of View Willard Van Orman Quine 1953 American English
8555 Word And Object Willard Van Orman Quine 1960 American English
8879 Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature Richard Rorty 1979 American English
10115 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
10241 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10280 Naming And Necessity Saul Kripke 1980 American English
10923 Robert Grosseteste R. W. Southern 1988 British English
11570 Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana 1923 Spanish English
11580 Women's Ways Of Knowing Mary Field Belenky 1986 American English
14753 Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus -180 Greek Greek
14818 Logic And Knowledge Bertrand Russell 1956 British English
14984 The Bounds Of Sense P. F. Strawson 1966 British English
15903 Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead 1925 British English
15903 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15903 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15903 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15903 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15903 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15899 The Retreat To Commitment William Warren Bartley 1962 American English
16496 The Chain Of Chance Stanislaw Lem 1976 Polish Polish
16769 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16648 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16651 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17130 Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology Niels Bohr 1949 Danish Unknown
17130 Paradigms Regained John L. Casti 2000 American English
17130 The Fabric Of Reality David Deutsch 1997 British English
17130 Common Sense, Science, And Scepticism Alan Musgrave 1993 New Zealand English
17130 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English
17130 The Philosophical Works Of Al Kindi Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann 2012 Unknown English
17130 Against Method Paul Feyerabend 1975 German English
17130 Sense And Sensibilia J. L. Austin 1962 British English
17130 Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 1997 British English
17130 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
17130 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17130 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
17130 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17130 Relativism Refuted Harvey Siegel 1987 American English
17130 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
17130 Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, And The Sociology Of Knowledge Gerard Radnitzky 1987 German English
16946 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17130 Leviathan And The Air Pump Steven Shapin 1985 Unknown English
17018 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17130 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17130 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17130 Worldviews Richard DeWitt 2004 Unknown English
17130 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
17130 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17130 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17130 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17130 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English