📚 Introductions

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with introductions on their catalogue record, first published between 1900 and 2002, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject introductions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,179 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Problems of Philosophy	Bertrand Russell	1900	288
The great conversation	Norman Melchert	1991	37
Understanding the Old Testament	Bernhard W. Anderson	1956	32
An Introduction to Philosophy	Jacques Maritain	1921	29
About Philosophy	Robert Paul Wolff	1976	26
Core Questions in Philosophy	Elliott Sober	1991	22
101 philosophy problems	Cohen, Martin	1999	20
Philosophy	Louis P. Pojman	1989	18
Was ist das -- die Philosophie	Martin Heidegger	1956	16
Learning to philosophise	Eric Revell Emmet	1964	15
An introduction to the Bible	Christian E. Hauer	1986	15
Einführung in die Philosophie	Karl Jaspers	1950	13
Introducing philosophy	Robert C. Solomon	1977	13
Philosophy	Nigel Warburton	1960	11
The Practice of Philosophy	Jay F. Rosenberg	1977	11
Understanding the Bible	Harris, Stephen L.	1980	11
The big questions	Robert C. Solomon	1982	11
Philosophy	Brooke Noel Moore	1990	11
A preface to philosophy	Mark B. Woodhouse	1975	10
Questions that matter	Miller, Ed. L.	1984	10
Archetypes of Wisdom	Douglas J. Soccio	1992	10
Modern philosophy	Roger Scruton	1994	10
Philosophy	James Lee Christian	1973	9
Talmud la-kol	Adin Steinsaltz	1976	9
Open questions	Emmett Barcalow	1992	9
Philosophical problems and arguments	James W. Cornman	1968	8
Wisdom without answers	Daniel Kolak	1989	8
Philosophers at Work	Elliot D. Cohen	1989	8
Roots of wisdom	Helen Buss Mitchell	1995	8
Reading philosophy	Samuel D. Guttenplan	2002	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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