Research Guides: Philosophy: Biographies

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People with Online Papers in Philosophy
This is a list of individuals who have made available online papers in philosophy and related areas. This page is no longer regularly updated. Its function has been taken over by the list of personal pages tracked at PhilPapers.

Biographical Compilations: Philosophers

A Companion to the Philosophers by Robert L. Arrington
ISBN: 0631223703
Publication Date: 1999
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; Robert Drew Hicks (Translator)
ISBN: 9780674992030
Publication Date: 2014
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Diogenes Laertius (probably early third century BCE) compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources. It ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus, portraying forty-five important figures, and is enriched by numerous quotations.
African-American Philosophers by George Yancy (Editor)
Call Number: B944.A37 A37 1998
ISBN: 9780415921008
Publication Date: 1998
British Philosophers, 1500-1799 by Peter S. Fosl (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787646691
Publication Date: 2001
eBook
British Philosophers, 1800-2000 by Philip Breed Dematteis (Editor); Peter S. Fosl (Editor); Leemon B. McHenry (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787660062
Publication Date: 2002
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Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers by Manfred Kuehn (Editor); Heiner F. Klemme (Editor)
ISBN: 9780826418623
Publication Date: 2010
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Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers by John R. Shook (Editor)
ISBN: 9781843710370
Publication Date: 2005
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Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers by G. R. Evans
ISBN: 0415236622
Publication Date: 2002
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Great Thinkers of the Eastern World by Ian P. McGreal
Call Number: B5005 .G74 1995
ISBN: 9780062700858
Publication Date: 1995
Portraits of American Continental Philosophers by James R. Watson (Editor)
Call Number: B935 .P66 1999
ISBN: 0253335930
Publication Date: 1999