Subcollections

Philosophy

Philosophy is a fairly small collection, and is not representative of this field of study. The following disciplines are represented: history, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and aesthetics. Most works are available in early editions and in the original language. An exception is Immanuel Kant, who is largely represented by later editions in French translation.

The emphasis of this collection is on eighteenth-century rationalism and empiricism: Descartes, Hume, Leibniz, Kant. The Enlightenment is represented by a number of interesting, although lesser known French authors; Maupertuis, Helvetius and Argens. The humanist bias of the collection can be seen from the considerable collection of works by Montaigne and from the absence of dogmatic religious works. This is even more evident by the conspicuous absence of Hegel, the German Idealists and the 'literary' philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Dutch philosophy is fairly well represented in the collection, which contains works by most of the important authors in the field. Among these are several works of particular interest such as De inventione dialectica by Rodolphus Agricola and early Boethius translations. Spinoza is notably absent.

Other works on philosophy can be found in the collection on 'Literature' (Greek authors and Latin literature).

Special works in this part of the collection:

The original call numbers have been added where applicable.

• De natura et constitutione philosophiae Italicae seu Pythagoricae liber singularis / Johannes Schefferus. - Upsaliae, 1564. - (N 6)
• Vijf bouken Boecii de consolatione philosophie / Boetius. - Ghend,1485. - (N 13 KB)
• Van de vertroosting der wysheyd / Boëthius; vert. door Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. - Leyden, 1588. - (N 14)
• De consolatione philoophiae of het gulden boeksken van de vertroostende wysheid / Boethius. - Dordrecht, 1680. - (N 15)
• Voorbeeldzels der oude wyzen, waar in op een zinrijke voet, en bevallige swier, de menschelijke hartstogten en daar uit rijzende deugden en gebreeken, behandeld worden. Uit meest alle de oostersche taalen, Grieksche en Romeinsche vergaderd / Thans in zuiverder Nederduits gebragt en doorgaans wel de helft vermeerderd, door Joannes Duikerius.- Amsterdam : Aard Wolsgrein, 1693.- 710, XXIV p.- ill. - (N 16)
• De inventione dialectica ... / R. Agricolae. - Coloniae, 1563. - (N 18)
• De his que mundo mirabiliter eveniunt / F. Caelestinus. - Parisiis, 1542. - (N 19 in bruikleen bij KB)
• Essais / M. de Montaigne. - 1616. - ed. nouvelle. - (N 20)
  N 21-31 zijn herdrukken, al of niet met commentaren, op dit werk.
• Epistolae ... / R. Descartes. - Amstelodami, 1682-1683. - 3 dl. - (N 35) )
• Tractus de homine et de formatione foetus / R. Descartes. - Amstelodami, 1686. - (N 36) )
• Principia philosophiae / R. Descartes. - Amstelodami, 1692. - (N 37) )
• Meditationes de prima philosophia / R. Descartes. - Amstelodami, 1698. - (N 38) )
• Treatise of human nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. - London, 1739-1740. - (N 58) )
• Opera omnia / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz. - Genevae, 1768. - 6 dl. - (N 68) )
• Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, J. Bernoulli. - Lausanne, 1745. - 2 dl. - (N 69) )
• Essays and treatises on several subjects / David Hume. - London, 1767. - 2 dl. - (N 72) )
• Origines de tous les cultes, ou religion universelle / Dupuis. - Paris, 1794. - 3 dl. - (N 91)
  Andere edities: N 92-94.