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
Margins of Philosophy (Middle (one of three 1972 volumes))
Derrida's 1972 essays — Différance, White Mythology, Signature Event Context
Limited Inc (Middle-late)
Derrida's 1977 'Limited Inc' — the exchange with Searle on Austin, speech acts, and the structure of writing
Specters of Marx (Late)
Derrida's 1993 'Specters of Marx' — hauntology, the New International, and 'one must read Marx' after the fall of the Wall
De Trinitatis Erroribus (Early)
Servetus's 1531 founding anti-Trinitarian treatise — written aged 20 in Hagenau
Dialogorum de Trinitate (Early)
Servetus's 1532 dialogues on the Trinity — clarifying and partially retracting De Trinitatis Erroribus
Edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Middle)
Servetus's 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geography — a major Renaissance humanist scientific edition
Christianismi Restitutio (Late (final))
Servetus's 1553 'Restoration of Christianity' — anti-Trinitarianism, anti-paedobaptism, the pulmonary circulation, and the stake at Geneva
A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (Early-career)
Clarke's 1704 Boyle Lectures — quasi-geometric demonstration of God's existence and attributes, more eorum mathematicorum
A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion (Early-career)
Clarke's 1705 Boyle Lectures — the eternal and necessary fitness of things as the rational ground of moral obligation
The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity (Mid-career)
Clarke's 1712 'Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity' — a quasi-Arian-Subordinationist reading that nearly cost him his preferment
A Just Vindication of the Church of England (Late (Civil-War exile))
Bramhall's 1654 'Just Vindication' — defending Anglican orders and ecclesiology in exile
A Defence of True Liberty from Antecedent and Extrinsecal Necessity (Late)
Bramhall's 1655 reply to Hobbes — defending libertarian free will against Hobbist necessitarianism
Castigations of Mr Hobbes (Late)
Bramhall's 1658 final salvo against Hobbes — including 'The Catching of Leviathan'
The Catching of Leviathan (Late)
Bramhall's 1658 'Catching of Leviathan' — arguing Hobbes is materialist-atheist, Erastian, and politically dangerous
Micrographia (Early-career (career-defining))
Hooke's 1665 Micrographia — first major illustrated microscopic survey and the coining of 'cell'
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations (Mid-career)
Hooke's 1674 lecture — earliest published statement of the inverse-square hypothesis for celestial motion
Lectures de Potentia Restitutiva (Mid-career)
Hooke's 1678 'ut tensio sic vis' — the announcement of Hooke's Law of elastic deformation
The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke (Posthumous)
Hooke's 1705 'Posthumous Works' — Cutlerian Lectures, the General Scheme of Natural Philosophy, and other late papers
American Power and the New Mandarins (Early (political work))
Chomsky's 1969 political debut — the New Mandarins and US conduct in Vietnam
Reflections on Language (Mid-career (linguistic work))
Chomsky's 1975 Whidden Lectures — universal grammar, innate knowledge, and the autonomy of linguistics
Manufacturing Consent (Mid-late (political work))
Chomsky and Herman's 1988 propaganda model — how 'free' US media manufacture elite consent
The Minimalist Program (Late (linguistic work))
Chomsky's 1995 'Minimalist Program' — stripping generative grammar to the optimal interface conditions
Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima (Early-to-middle)
Siger's c. 1265-70 'Questions on De Anima III' — the radical-Averroist doctrine of the single separated intellect
De Anima Intellectiva (Middle (post-Aquinas-attack))
Siger's 1273 'De Anima Intellectiva' — partial retreat from strict Averroism in the wake of Aquinas's 1270 attack
De Aeternitate Mundi (Middle)
Siger's 1272 'De Aeternitate Mundi' — Aristotelian-Averroist eternity-of-the-world against Christian creation in time
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis (Late)
Siger's questions on the Liber de Causis — the medieval-Neoplatonic emanational hierarchy treated philosophically
Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei (Career-defining)
Bellarmine's 1586-93 Disputations — the definitive Counter-Reformation theological response to the Reformers
De Potestate Summi Pontificis in Rebus Temporalibus (Late)
Bellarmine's 1610 'indirect-power' doctrine — papal authority over temporal affairs in spiritualibus
Letter to Foscarini (Late)
Bellarmine's 1615 letter to Foscarini — Copernicanism may be held as hypothesis but not as fact unless Scripture is shown to allow it
De Aeterna Felicitate Sanctorum (Late (devotional))
Bellarmine's 1616 devotional treatise on the eternal happiness of the saints — late-career spiritual writing
Euthyphro (Early)
Plato's early Socratic dialogue on piety — the Euthyphro Dilemma
Statesman (Late)
Plato's late 'Statesman' — political knowledge as the kingly art of weaving virtues
Critias (Late)
Plato's unfinished 'Critias' — the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis
General Scholium (Late)
Newton's 1713 General Scholium — 'Hypotheses non fingo' and the natural-theological framing of the Principia
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John (Posthumous)
Newton's 1733 posthumous prophetic-biblical commentary — Daniel and Revelation read as predictive of church-history
Alchemical and Theological Manuscripts (Career-spanning private work)
Newton's vast unpublished alchemical and theological manuscripts — millions of words, edited and studied from the 1930s onward
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (Late)
Kant's 1793 'Religion within Mere Reason' — radical evil and moral religion within Critical bounds
Perpetual Peace (Late)
Kant's 1795 'Toward Perpetual Peace' — republican constitutions, a federation of free states, cosmopolitan right
The Metaphysics of Morals (Late)
Kant's 1797 'Metaphysics of Morals' — systematic doctrine of right and doctrine of virtue
On Vision and Colors (Early)
Schopenhauer's 1816 colour-theory treatise — defending Goethe against Newton
On the Will in Nature (Middle)
Schopenhauer's 1836 'On the Will in Nature' — empirical-scientific corroborations of the World as Will
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Late)
Schopenhauer's 1841 'Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics' — the freedom of the will and the basis of morality
De Institutione Musica (On Music) (Early)
Boethius's 'De Musica' — the standard medieval Latin music-theory textbook
De Institutione Arithmetica (On Arithmetic) (Early)
Boethius's 'De Arithmetica' — the Latin transmission of Pythagorean arithmetic to the medieval West
Theological Tractates (Opuscula Sacra) (Mid-to-late)
Boethius's five 'Opuscula Sacra' — applying philosophical method to Christian dogma; the prologue of scholasticism
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Early)
Turing's 1936 founding paper of computer science — the Turing Machine and the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem
Intelligent Machinery (Mid)
Turing's 1948 'Intelligent Machinery' — the earliest detailed AI research programme, including neural-network-like 'unorganised machines'
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (Late)
Turing's 1952 'Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis' — founding paper of mathematical biology of pattern formation
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms (Final)
Darwin's 1881 last book — the unsung geological-ecological role of earthworms
On the Prescription of Heretics (Pre-Montanist)
Tertullian's c. 203 'De Praescriptione' — apostolic-rule polemic against heresy, refusing to debate Scripture with heretics
On the Flesh of Christ (Mid-to-late (Montanist period))
Tertullian's c. 206 'De Carne Christi' — anti-Docetic, anti-Gnostic affirmation of Christ's real flesh; 'credo quia absurdum'
Parts of Animals (Middle)
Aristotle's 'Parts of Animals' — comparative anatomy and the methodology of biology
Expression and Meaning (Mid-career)
Searle's 1979 essays extending speech-act theory to indirect speech, metaphor, fiction, and literal meaning
Minds, Brains, and Programs (Mid-career)
Searle's 1980 Chinese Room argument — strong AI does not produce understanding
Mind: A Brief Introduction (Late)
Searle's 2004 late synthesis — biological-naturalist philosophy of mind in ~330 pages
Parts of Classes (Late-middle)
Lewis's 1991 mereological reformulation of set theory — classes have proper parts, not membership
Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (Late)
Lewis's 1999 collection — Humean supervenience, knowledge by acquaintance, properties as universals
Papers in Philosophical Logic (Late)
Lewis's 1998 collection — counterfactuals, modal logic, conditional probability, two-dimensional semantics
A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic (Earliest)
Kripke's 1959 founding paper — the possible-worlds semantics for modal logic
Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic (Early)
Kripke's 1963 systematic statement — quantified modal logic and the relations among modal systems