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Online catalogue
The following link takes you to the Advanced search facility of the Archives catalogue (search for Philosophy in the Term field to find the main collections relating to this topic): Archives catalogue|. For a list of those collections with a full item-level catalogue see Completed Catalogues|.
Main collections
LSE Archives holds the papers of significant philosophers including (reference codes to the documents are in brackets):
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Ernest Gellner, 1925-1995 (GELLNER)
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Frederic Harrison, 1831-1923 (HARRISON)
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Imre Lakatos, 1922-1974 (LAKATOS)
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Michael Oakeshott, 1901-1990 (OAKESHOTT)
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Sir Karl Popper, 1896-1987 (POPPER). This is a microfilm copy of the Popper archive held at Stanford University
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John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873 (MILL-TAYLOR)
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John William Nevill Watkins, 1924-1999 (WATKINS)
Rare books
Some of the rare books| held at LSE Archives relate to philosophy, logic and scientific method, including:
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published works by philosophers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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Bonar Collection.