Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy (New York: Liveright/Norton, 2016).
Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, updated edition (New York & London: Norton, 2000, 2016).
Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, introduction by A. C. Grayling (London: The Folio Society, 2004) ("In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings. To have insisted upon the introduction of this virtue into philosophy, and to have invented a powerful method by which it can be rendered fruitful, are the chief merits of the philosophical school of which I am a member. The habit of careful veracity acquired in the practice of this philosophical method can be extended to the whole sphere of human activity, producing, whatever it exists, a lessening of fanaticism with an increasing capacity of sympathy and mutual understanding. In abandoning a part of its dogmatic pretensions, philosophy does not cease to suggest and inspire a way of life." Id. at 787-787.).
