Work Classification Layer
Works
Foundational texts located on the same six-dimensional grid as the schools and personas — but cited at chapter-and-verse precision. The works layer captures what personas cannot: author-stage shifts (early Wittgenstein vs late), anonymous and composite corpora (the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching), and passage-level evidence for ontological readings.
1888 of 1888 classified · 2277 total cited
The Character of Consciousness (Mid)
Chalmers's 2010 collected consciousness-philosophy essays
Constructing the World (Mid)
Chalmers's 2012 Locke Lectures — neo-Carnapian scrutability project
The Memorandum (Early)
Havel's 1965 absurdist Ptydepe-language play
Living in Truth (Mid)
Havel's 1986 dissident essays — "living in truth"
To the Castle and Back (Late)
Havel's 2006 presidential memoir
Exposition du système du monde (Mid)
Laplace's 1796 popular cosmology — nebular hypothesis
Traité de mécanique céleste (Mid-to-late)
Laplace's 1799-1825 five-volume Treatise on Celestial Mechanics
Théorie analytique des probabilités (Late)
Laplace's 1812 Analytical Theory of Probabilities — founding probability mathematics
Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer (Early)
Deutsch's 1985 founding paper of quantum computation
The Fabric of Reality (Mid)
Deutsch's 1997 four-strand many-worlds philosophy of reality
The Beginning of Infinity (Late)
Deutsch's 2011 "Explanations That Transform the World"
Sidh Gosht (Mid)
Guru Nānak's dialogue with the Siddhas — Adi Granth Sant exposition
Babar Vani (Mid)
Guru Nānak's 1521 prophetic-witness hymns on Babur's invasion
Janamsakhi traditions (Post-Nānak transmission)
Sikh hagiographical traditions on Guru Nānak's life
The Artwork of the Future (Early)
Wagner's 1849 manifesto declaring the Gesamtkunstwerk — drama, music, poetry, dance reunified under the people's revolution
Opera and Drama (Early-to-Middle)
Wagner's 1851 theoretical magnum opus — music as means, drama as end
Tristan und Isolde (Middle (post-Schopenhauer))
Wagner's 1857–59 music-drama of erotic-mystical Sehnsucht — Schopenhauerian World-as-Will set to chromatic harmony
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Middle-to-late (career-spanning))
Wagner's 26-year, four-evening cycle — the curse of the gold and the twilight of the gods
Religion and Art (Late)
Wagner's 1880 declaration: 'When religion becomes artificial, it is for art to rescue its essence'
Parsifal (Late (final completed work))
Wagner's 1882 farewell music-drama — the holy fool, the wound, the spear, the Grail
A History of Philosophy (Career-spanning)
Copleston's 1946–74 nine-volume history — the standard English-language Catholic survey of Western philosophy
Aquinas (Mid-career)
Copleston's 1955 Penguin introduction — Aquinas as living philosopher, not historical curiosity
Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism (Mid-career)
Copleston's 1956 Thomist engagement with logical positivism and existentialism — the two great threats from analytic and Continental sides
Religion and Philosophy (Late)
Copleston's 1974 monograph — philosophy of religion after Ayer and after Vatican II
Philosophies and Cultures (Late)
Copleston's 1980 essays — comparative philosophy, Indian and Chinese alongside Western
History of the Inductive Sciences (Mid-career)
Whewell's 1837 three-volume history of the inductive sciences — the founding survey of the history of natural science
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (Mid-career (companion to the History))
Whewell's 1840 philosophical companion to the History — the doctrine of Fundamental Ideas and the consilience of inductions
Of Induction (Mid-career polemic)
Whewell's 1849 reply to Mill — defending consilience against the methods of agreement and difference
Novum Organon Renovatum (Late)
Whewell's 1858 'Novum Organon Renovatum' — methodology of discovery in the spirit of Bacon, renewed
On the Philosophy of Discovery (Late-career capstone)
Whewell's 1860 capstone — chapters on the philosophy of discovery and the history of method
A Theory of Conditionals (Early)
Stalnaker's 1968 founding paper of the possible-worlds semantics for conditionals — the 'Stalnaker conditional'
Inquiry (Mid-career)
Stalnaker's 1984 monograph — propositions as sets of possible worlds, assertion as adding to common ground
Context and Content (Mid-to-late)
Stalnaker's 1999 essays on intentionality, context, and the structure of belief and assertion
Ways a World Might Be (Late-middle)
Stalnaker's 2003 essays on modal metaphysics — moderate modal actualism against Lewisian modal realism
Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Late)
Stalnaker's 2008 Locke Lectures — self-knowledge through the same possible-worlds machinery as knowledge of the external world
Context (Late)
Stalnaker's 2014 monograph — the common-ground model of conversation, refined and applied
Origines Sacrae (Early-career)
Stillingfleet's 1662 'Origines Sacrae' — Restoration-Anglican rational defence of Christian truth against deist and atheist challenge
A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion (Early-career)
Stillingfleet's 1664 Protestant-Anglican reply to John Sergeant's Catholic apologetic
The Unreasonableness of Separation (Mid-career)
Stillingfleet's 1681 sermon-treatise against Dissenting separation from the Church of England
A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (Late)
Stillingfleet's 1696 defence of Trinitarian orthodoxy — the work that drew him into open dispute with Locke
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke (Late)
Stillingfleet's 1697–98 replies to Locke — the most extensive philosophical exchange of Locke's life
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (Mid-career)
Bohr's 1934 essay collection — the philosophical statement of complementarity for general audiences
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (Mid-career, post-EPR)
Bohr's 1935 reply to EPR — complementarity and the inseparability of system from measuring apparatus
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (Late)
Bohr's 1958 essay collection — late-Bohrian complementarity extended to biology, anthropology, and culture
Essays 1958–1962 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (Final)
Bohr's posthumous 1963 essay collection — the last essays on complementarity, life, and the unity of the sciences
From a Logical Point of View (Mid-career)
Quine's 1953 essay collection — home of 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' and 'On What There Is'
Set Theory and Its Logic (Mid-career)
Quine's 1963 textbook-treatise on set theory — including his own NF / ML systems alongside ZF
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (Mid-to-late)
Quine's 1969 lecture-essay volume — 'Epistemology Naturalized' and the indeterminacy of reference
The Roots of Reference (Late)
Quine's 1974 Carus Lectures — how the child comes to refer, naturalised through behavioural-stimulus theory
Pursuit of Truth (Late)
Quine's 1990 short late synthesis — his philosophy in 100 compressed pages
The Poverty of Historicism (Mid-career)
Popper's 1944/1957 attack on 'historicist' prophecy — the impossibility of predicting the course of history
Objective Knowledge (Late)
Popper's 1972 essays — evolutionary epistemology and the World 3 of objective knowledge
Substance and Function (Early)
Cassirer's 1910 treatise — the shift from substance-concepts to function-concepts as the structure of modern scientific knowledge
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (Middle)
Cassirer's 1927 Renaissance study — Cusanus to Galileo as the formation of the modern conception of nature
The Myth of the State (Final)
Cassirer's 1946 posthumous study — the politics of myth from Plato to Nazi totalitarianism
Plato's Dialectical Ethics (Early)
Gadamer's 1931 Habilitation — Plato's Philebus read through Heideggerian phenomenology
Philosophical Hermeneutics (Late-middle)
Gadamer's 1976 English-language essays — the hermeneutical programme applied to language, art, and practice
The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy (Late)
Gadamer's 1978 study — the Idea of the Good across Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Reason in the Age of Science (Late)
Gadamer's 1981 essays — practical philosophy and hermeneutical reflection in the technological age
Speech and Phenomena (Early)
Derrida's 1967 deconstructive reading of Husserl — voice, expression, and the metaphysics of presence