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Contents of Disk (created on a Windows computer):

Spinoza'a Short Treatise on God by A Wolf 1910

A Study of Spinoza by James Martineau 1883

French Thought and Spinozism, article in Contemporary Review 1877

Spinoza as Educator by WL Rabenort 1911

Spinoza - A Novel by B Auerbach 1882

Spinoza, his life and philosophy by F Pollock 1899

Apologetics - Christianity defensively stated by Alex Brice 1893 (Pantheism/Spinoza)

The World's Legal Philosophies (has a section on Spinoza) by Fritz Berolzheimer 1912

Biographies of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers by Charles Bradlaugh (sections on Spinoza and Descartes)

The Ethics of Spinoza, article in The Theological review 1870

The Idealism of Spinoza  - John Clark Murray 1896

Modern atheism under its forms of pantheism, materialism, secularism, development, and natural laws by James Buchanan 1867 (The System of Spinoza)

On Spinozistic Immortality by George Fullerton 1899

Spinoza and His Environment: A Critical Essay with a Translation of the Ethics by Henry Smith 1886 (poor scan)

On the History of Spinozism, article in The Jewish quarterly review 1896

The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time by Rudolf Eucken 1910 (section on Spinoza)

Spinoza - Four Essays by Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land, Kuno Fischer , Johannes van Vloten , Ernest Renan 1882

Improvement of the Understanding by Spinoza 1901

Spinoza's Political and Ethical Philosophy by Robert Duff 1903

Spinoza: a Handbook to the Ethics by J Picton 1907

Modern European Philosophy - the History of Modern Philosophy, Psychologically Treated by DJ Snider 1904 (first 270 pages deals with Descartes and Spinoza)

Spinozism - The Religion of Gladness, article in Fraser's Magazine 1878

Half truths and the Truth - on the Origin and Development of Prevailing Forms of Unbelief by JM Manning 1872 (deals a lot with Pantheism, Spinoza and Descartes)

Spinoza and Religion - a Study of Spinoza's Metaphysics and of his Particular Utterances in regard to Religion by Elmer Powell 1906

Idea and Essence in the Philosophies of Hobbes and Spinoza by Albert Balz 1918

Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, and Ethics by Robert Willis 1870

A Refutation Recently Discovered of Spinoza by Leibnitz (first 153 pages only) by William Gottfried 1855

Ethic demonstrated in geometrical order by Spinoza 1883 - sometimes hard to read

Spinoza by John Caird 1888 (Jewish Philosophers, Kabbala, Descartes, Ethics)

Notes on the Philosophy of Spinoza, article in The Mind 1878

Outlines of Jewish history by Lady Katie Magnus 1890 (chapter on Spinoza)

Through Agnostic Spectacles By Alexander Kadison (Tribute to Spinoza) 1919

Pantheism; its story and significance by J Picton 1905
(MODERN Pantheism as a religion begins with Spinoza.)

The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza Volume 1 1891

The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza Volume 2 1891

Letters on the Latest Form of Infidelity (Spinoza, De Wette, Schleiermacher) by George Ripley 1840

The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of its History by Otto Pfleiderer Volume 1 1886 (Spinoza to the Present Day)

The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of its History by Otto Pfleiderer Volume 2 1886

The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of its History by Otto Pfleiderer Volume 3 1886

Descartes and his School by Kuno Fischer 1887

Descartes (Biography) by John Pentland Mahaffy 1896

French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes 1910

A Discourse on Method by Rene DesCartes

The Genius and Writings of Descartes, Essay in the Edinburgh Review 1860

The Influence of Descartes on Metaphysical Speculation in England by William Cunningham 1876

Metaphysics of the Supernatural as Illustrated by Descartes by Lina Kahn 1918

Notes on Prof. Ormond's Philosophy from DesCartes to Kant 1865

Descartes, His Life and Times by E Haldane 1905

Meditations of First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The Meditations and Selections from the Principles of Rene Descartes 1903

The Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Descartes - His Historical Position, article in the Eclectic Magazine 1852

Foundations of Christian Belief - Studies in the Philosophy of Religion by F Strickland 1915
"The philosophy of Descartes taught that absolute existence is in God and finite existence is in mind and matter."

Historical Introduction to Mathematical Literature by GA Miller 1916 (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Diophantus of Alexandria, Vieta, Descartes, Fermat, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Lagrange, Gauss, Cauchy, Steiner, Abel, Hamilton, Galois, Sylvester, Weierstrass, Cayley, Hermite, Kronecker, Cremona, Lie, Poincare)

The Principles of Descartes Philosophy by Baruch Spinoza 1905

Christian Theism (Intellectual Pantheism/Spinoza) by Robert Thompson 1855

Physiology of the soul and instinct, as distinguished from materialism by M Paine 1872 (Spinozism/Pantheism)

Origins of Contemporary Psychology by D Mercier 1918 (THE EVOLUTION OF THE CARTESIAN PSYCHOLOGY and Evolution of the Cartesian Spiritualistic
Theory, Spinozism)

What is Thought?, or, The Problem of Philosophy by way of a general conclusion so far 1900 by James Stirling (The Ontological Proof-Schelling-Descartes)

Essay on Religious Philosophy, Volume 1 by Emile Saisset 1863 (The Theism of Descartes, Pantheism of Spinoza, Skepticism of Kant etc)

Essay on Religious Philosophy, Volume 2 by Emile Saisset 1863

Descartes, Spinoza and the New Philosophy by James Iverach 1904

The Philosophical Works Of Descartes by E Haldane 1912 (Replies to Objections)

Mathematical Solution Book by Benjamin Franklin Finkel 1888 (contains a biography of Descartes)

An Elementary Course in Theory of Equations (Descartes' Rule of Signs)

Selections from the Literature of Theism 1904 (The Existence of God by Descartes)

Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann by Francis Bowen 1871

Historical studies in philosophy by Emile Boutroux 1912

The Will to Doubt - an Essay in Philosophy for the General Thinker (An Early Modern Doubter: Descartes) by Alfred Lloyd 1907

Descartes and Cartesianism, article in The Cambridge modern history 1906

The Limitations of Science (Descartes and his influence on recent science) by LT More 1915

Studies at Leisure - The Mask of Descartes by WL Courtney 1892

Lay Sermons by Thomas H Huxley 1882 (On Descartes' "Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth")

Elements of General Philosophy by George Robertson 1896

Essays on Literature and Philosophy by Edward Caird 1892 (Descarte* His Relation to the Reformers His View of Doubt and his Method of Abstraction Objections to the Coyito ergo sum and his Answers to them Idea of God as the Link between the Subject and the Object Its Priority to Both, and Difficulties thence arising How Descartes avoids Pantheism His Statement of the Ontological Argument Unequal Relation of God to Matter and Mind Absolute Arbitrariness of Will in God, and Relative Arbitrariness of Will in Man The Idea of Matter and the Proof of its Existence Mechanical View of Nature, and even of the Animal Organism Explanation of the Feelings and Desires of Man Occasional Causes Ethical Views of Descartes The Relation of Reason to Passion)

Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy by NK Smith 1902

A History of Philosophy in Epitome by A Schwegler 1890 (section on Descartes)

The Syllogistic Philosophy (Cogito Ergo Sum) by Francis Abbot 1906

Descartes and the Nature of the Mind (Dualism), section in Readings in Philosophy by Albert Avey 1921

An Historical Interpretation of Philosophy by John Bascom 1893 (section on Descartes)

Types of Ethical Theory by James Martineau 1889 (section on Descartes - Monism & Dualism)

Logic, in Three Books: of Thought, of Investigation and of Knowledge Volume 1 by Hermann Lotze 1887

Logic, in Three Books: of Thought, of Investigation and of Knowledge Volume 2 by Hermann Lotze 1887

Cartesian Plane Geometry by Charlotte Scott 1907

A History of Mathematics (Descartes to Newton) by Florian Cajori 1919

The Aesthetic Experience: its Nature and Function in Epistemology By William Davis Furry (Dualism of Descartes) 1908

Plato and Paul - Philosophy and Christianity by JW Mendenhall 1886 (Descartes faithfully and laboriously took up the great problems of philosophy; viz., matter, mind, knowledge, and God, wrestling with the difficulties that inhered in the problems themselves, and declaring certain principles to be fundamental to their solution.)

Initiation into Philosophy (chapter on The Cartesians) by Emile Faguet 1914

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Volume 1 by William Hamilton 1861

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Volume 2 by William Hamilton 1861

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Volume 3 by William Hamilton 1861

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Volume 4 by William Hamilton 1874

Vocabulary of Philosophy - Student's Book of Reference 1895

The Essentials of Philosophy by Roy Wood Sellars 1917

A Beginners history of Philosophy Volume 1 by Herbert Ernest Cushman 1918

A Beginners history of Philosophy Volume 2 by Herbert Ernest Cushman 1918

Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Hegel 1892 Volume 1

Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Hegel 1892 Volume 2

Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Hegel 1892 Volume 3 (sections on Descartes and Spinoza along with a host of others)

Plus You Get:

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant by AD Lindsay 1913

The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant 1908

Agnosticism in Kant, article in the Princeton Review 1880

A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of pure reason' by Norman Kemp Smith 1918

The Philosophy of Kant explained by John Watson 1908

With what right is Kant's Critique of pure reason called a Theory of Experience by John Henry Bell 1899

The Critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Volume 1 by Edward Caird 1909

The Critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Volume 2 by Edward Caird 1909

A Critique of Kant by Kuno Fisher 1888

Kant's Introduction to Logic 1885

Critique of Pure Kant - A real realism vs. a Fictitious Idealism; in a word, the bubble and monstrosity of the Kantian metaphysic by Charles Wheeler 1911

The Epistemological Function of the "Thing in Itself" in Kant's philosophy by Albert Ross Hill 1905

Kant and his English Critics- A comparison of critical and empirical philosophy by John Watson 1881

Kant's Prolegomena, and Metaphysical foundations of natural science by Ernest Bax 1883

The Principle of Synthetic Unity in Berkeley and Kant by Samuel Dick 1898

An outline introductory to Kant's "Critique of pure reason" by RM Wenley 1897

A Study of Kant by James Ward 1922

Kant and his Philosophical Revolution by RM Wenley 1910

Kant's Ethics and Schopenhauer's Criticism by Michael Kelly 1910

Historical survey of speculative philosophy from Kant to Hegel by HM Chalybaus 1854

The Philosophy of Kant by Victor Cousin 1854

The Formal and Material Elements of Kant's Ethics by WM Washington 1898

Pragmatic Elements in Kant's Philosophy by Charles Witter 1913

Kant's Doctrine of Teleology by Elijah Kresge 1914

Kant's theory of knowledge by HA Prichard 1909

An Introduction to Kant's Critical Philosophy by George Whitney 1914

Kant, Lotze and Ritschl by L Stahlin 1889

Kant and [Herbert] Spencer, a critical exposition by BP Bowne 1910

Kant's philosophy as rectified by Schopenhauer by Michael Kelly 1909

Kant's Ethics -  A critical exposition by Noah Porter 1886

Immanuel Kant, A study and a comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes by HS Chamberlain Volume 1, 1914

Immanuel Kant, A study and a comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes by HS Chamberlain Volume 2, 1914

Kant's doctrine of freedom by Edmund Miller 1913

Kant's Critique of Judgement 1914

Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgement 1911

On the Philosophy of Kant by Robert Adamson 1879

Critique of Practical Reason - Kant 1889

Critique of Pure Reason Volume 1 - Kant 1881

Critique of Pure Reason Volume 2 - Kant 1881

Immanuel Kant- his life and doctrine by F Paulsen 1902

Kant - The Science of Right 1790

Philosophy from DesCartes to Kant by Prof Ormond

Protestant thought before Kant by AC Mcgiffert 1911

The development of theology in Germany since Kant by Otto Pfleiderer 1890

The Kantian and Lutheran elements in Ritschls conception of God by GD Walcott 1904

The Kantian epistemology and theism by CW Hodge 1894

The Metaphysic of Ethics-Kant 1871

Text-book to Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason; Aesthetic, Categories, Schematism 1881 (some pages have some text obliterated, but not much)

Kant by William Wallace (Biography) 1882

Kant by E Hubbard 1903

Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics by Paul Carus 1912

The life of Immanuel Kant by JHW Stuckenberg 1882

Kant on Education 1899

Swedenborg Versus Berkeley, Kant, Coleridge by William Harbey 1846 (some pages missing - very old scan)

An introduction to the critical philosophy by William Monck 1874

Supplement to Theology and science of Government- Being a review of a book by Immanuel Kant, called Critique of pure reason by John Harris 1874

Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant and other philosophical lectures & essays by Harry Sidgwick 1905

Kant's critical philosophy for English readers 1915

The constitutive and regulative principles in Kant by Elijah Jordan 1912

Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's theory of experience by RA Tsanoff 1911

Kant's inaugural dissertation of 1770 (1894)

Kant's principles of politics, including his essay on Perpetual peace 1891

The Crowning Phase of the Critical Philosophy - a study in Kant's Critique of judgment by Robert Macmillan 1912

Seneca and Kant - An exposition of stoic and rationalistic ethics, with a comparison and criticism of the two systems by William Jackson 1881

Theological Essays By Arnold van Couthen Piccardt Huizinga (Kant's Ethics Autonomic, But Wholly Unlike Modern Morality) 1918

Kantian ethics and the ethics of Evolution by Jacob Gould Schurman 1881

Dreams of a Spirit Seer by Kant 1900

Agnosticism and Religion by Jacob Gould Schurman (1896)

"With Kant and Hume (who provoked Kant into becoming a critical philosopher) we reach the fountain-heads of modern Agnosticism."

Religious Scepticism and Infidelity: Their History, Cause, Cure and Mission by John Alfred Langford 1850

Plus you Get:

Hume by Thomas Henry Huxley 1879

Free Will and Four English Philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill by Joseph Rickaby 1906

David Hume by Henry Calderwood 1898

(Hume as a Philosopher — his Philosophy of Understanding; Hume as Historian; Hume in the Government Service; Hume's Attitude as to Religion)

Hume's Suppressed Essays, article in The Open Court 1917

David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology by James Orr 1903

Philosophical works by David Hume 1854

Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically considered, and Vindicated from the charge of contributing to the Scepticism of Hume by Edward Tagart 1855

A Review of Hume and Huxley on Miracles by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe 1883

On Hume's Arguments against Miracles, article in Blackwood's Magazine 1873

Hume, Huxley and Miracles, article in the Presbyterian review 1880

The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by WC Gore 1902

David Hume's Natural History of Religion, article in The Monist 1909

An examination of Hume's argument of miracles by A. H. Lawrence 1845

A Dissertation on Miracles: containing an examination of the principles advanced by David Hume in An essay on miracles by George Campbell 1834 (Mr Hume's favourite argument is founded on a false hypothesis; Mr Hume charged with some fallacies in his way of managing the argument)

An Enquiry concerning human understanding, and selections from A treatise of human nature by David Hume. With Hume's autobiography and a letter from Adam Smith 1912

Hume's Treatise of Morals and selections from the Treatise of the Passions 1893

Observations on the Nature and Tendency of the Doctrine of Mr. Hume concerning the relation of cause and effect by Thomas Brown 1806

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 1900

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume (Searchable PDF)

Another objection to the argument.

A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (Searchable PDF)

The life of David Hume (1826)

Hume's Political Discourses 1906

Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by Hume Volume 1 1889

Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by Hume Volume 2 1889

Philosophy from DesCartes to Kant by Prof Ormond

Hume Again and Huxley, article in The Religious magazine and monthly review 1871

Religious Scepticism and Infidelity: Their History, Cause, Cure and Mission by John Langford 1850

Agnosticism and Religion by Jacob Gould Schurman (1896)

"With Kant and Hume (who provoked Kant into becoming a critical philosopher) we reach the fountain-heads of modern Agnosticism."

Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann by Francis Bowen 1877

Letters of David Hume by Thomas Murray 1841

Monism and Meliorism: a Philosophical essay on Causality and Ethics By Paul Carus (Hume's Problem p.29) 1885

A History of English Utilitarianism by Ernest Albee 1902

Reply to Paine - An apology for the Bible in letters to Thomas Paine With notices of Hume's Denial of Miracles by Richard Watson 1880

Materialism as a philosophical conception of the universe, Or Hume Vindicated by Craig Ruie 1905

A letter to Adam Smith on the life, death, and philosophy of his friend David Hume by George Horne 1799

The Treatment of Personality by Locke, Berkeley and Hume by JW Hudson 1911

The Philosophy of Hume as contained in extracts from the first book and the first and second sections of the third part of the second book of the Treatise of Human Nature 1893

Modern Thinkers and Present Problems - an approach to modern philosophy through its history by Edgar Singer

Scottish Men of Letters in the 18th Century by Henry Graham 1908

Psychology, Epistemology and Metaphysics article in The Philosophical review 1892

Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the end of Last Century, a contribution to the History of Theology Volume 1 by John Hunt 1870

Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the end of Last Century, a contribution to the History of Theology Volume 2 by John Hunt 1870

Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the end of Last Century, a contribution to the History of Theology Volume 3 by John Hunt 1870

History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance by F Lange 1882

A Beginner's History of Philosophy Volume 1 by Herbert Ernest Cushman 1911

A Beginner's History of Philosophy Volume 2 by Herbert Ernest Cushman 1911

A Student's History of Philosophy by AK Rogers 1913

History of rationalism By John Fletcher Hurst 1865

Philosophy and Theology, being the first Edinburgh university Gifford lectures by James Stirling 1890 (Hume and the Atheists)

Science and Immortality, article in The Popular science monthly 1872

The Origin and Import of the Idea of Causality, article in The Monist 1896

Hume, by William Knight 1886

"these Philosophical Classics for English Readers are written, not so much for the initiated, as for those who wish to know something about the great Systems, and their Founders; but who have not leisure to peruse their Treatises in full, or to go into the more recondite aspects of the questions they

have raised, still less to master the voluminous critical literature which has subsequently gathered around them."

The Student's Hume - A History of England from the earliest times to the revolution in 1688 by David Hume 1859

Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Arthur Schwegler

Plus you get:

The Skeptic or Discussions of an Unbeliever with a Calvinist, an Arminian and a Universalist by Daniel Prine 1877

Rationalism by JM Robertson 1912

The Genesis of Genesis - A study of the Documentary Sources of the first book of Moses in accordance with the results of Critical Science, illustrating the presence of Bibles within the Bible by Benjamin Bacon 1893

History Of Rationalism  by A. Hurst 1865

Decay of Rationalism by Arthur Holmes 1910

Paganism and Christianity by J.A. Farrar 1891

The New Rationalism - The Development of a Constructive Realism Upon the Basis of Modern Logic by Edward Spaulding

Essays in Rationalism by Charles Robert Newman 1891

Faith and Rationalism by George Fisher 1879

The Meaning of Rationalism and Other Essays by Charles Watts 1905

The Religion of an Educated Man by F. G. Peabody 1903

Religion Rationalized By Hiram Vrooman Volume 2 - 1911

Reason and Belief by Sir Oliver Lodge 1910

Bible of Reason Part 1 by Benjamin Powell 1831

Through Agnostic Spectacles 1919 by Alexander Kadison

The Library of Reason Containing a Series of Articles from the Works of Ancient and Modern Authors in Favour of Free Inquiry 1851 by William Chilton

The Freethinker's Magazine and Review of Theology, Politics, and Literature 1851

God's Failures  by Joseph Smith Fletcher 1897

The contrast between Atheism, paganism and Christianity illustrated by Charles Orpen 1827

Deism or Christianity? Four discourses by N.L. Frothingham 1845

Deism not Consistent with the Religion of Reason and Nature by Capel Barrow 1780

Intellectual Philosophy by JT Champlin 1860

Elements of Intellectual Philosophy by Joseph Alden 1866

A System of Intellectual Philosophy by Asa Mahan 1854

The Connection between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy by J Barlow 1846

A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy by Alexander Jamieson 1837

The Philosophy of True Living by FG Welch 1869

Elements of thought by Isaac Taylor 1851

Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience by Carolina F Cornwallis 1854

The Fundamental Concepts of Modern Philosophic Thought critically and historically considered by Rudolf Eucken 1880

On the Philosophy of the Mind by James Douglas 1839

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