General Information

English Philosophical Texts Online is part of a project that aims to provide high-quality digital editions of a broad canon of English language philosophical works published in Britain between 1650 and 1830, to make them freely available in one place, and to provide intuitive software for performing sophisticated searches and computational analyses of these works.

Roughly 40% of the target works have already been digitised, through projects like the Text Creation Partnership, the Online Library of Liberty, and Project Gutenberg. However, these works can be difficult to locate unless you already know where to look, and the fact that they are spread out over multiple sites prohibits systematic searching and comparative computational analysis. Furthermore, the editions on these sites do not include universal paragraph references, making them of limited use to historians of philosophy. By combining these works with new digitisations of as many other works again, including several by often neglected female writers, we hope to provide a lasting scholarly resource of unparalleled size in this field.