This bibliography limits itself to translations general works on Aristotle, and works cited in this entry. Please see the subjective-specific bibliographies in the entries under General and Special Topics for references to works pertinent to more specific areas of Aristotle’s philosophy.

A. Translations

The Standard English Translation of Aristotle’s Complete Works into English is:

• Barnes, J., ed. The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volumes I and II, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

An excellent translation of selections of Aristotle’s works is:

• Irwin, T. and Fine., G., Aristotle: Selections, Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.

B. Translations with Commentaries

The best set of English translations with commentaries is the Clarendon Aristotle Series:

• Ackrill, J., Categories and De Interpretatione, translated with notes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963.
• Annas, J., Metaphysics Books M and N, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Balme, D., De Partibus Animalium I and De Generatione Animalium I, (with passages from Book II. 1–3), translated with an introduction and notes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Barnes, J., Posterior Analytics, second edition, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Bostock, D., Metaphysics Books Z and H, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Charlton, W., Physics Books I and II, translated with introduction, commentary, Note on Recent Work, and revised Bibliography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
• Graham, D., Physics, Book VIII, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Hamlyn, D., De Anima II and III, with Passages from Book I, translated with a commentary, and with a review of recent work by Christopher Shields, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Hussey, E., Physics Books III and IV, translated with an introduction and notes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983; new impression with supplementary material, 1993.
• Judson, L., Metaphysics Book Λ, edited, translated with an introduction and commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Keyt, D., Politics, Books V and VI Animals, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Kirwan, C., Metaphysics: Books gamma, delta, and epsilon, second edition, translated with notes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Kraut, R., Politics Books VII and VIII, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Lennox, J., On the Parts of Animals, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Madigan, A., Aristotle: Metaphysics Books B and K 1–2, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Makin, S., Metaphysics Theta, translated with an introduction and commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Pakaluk, M., Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Robinson, R., Politics: Books III and IV, translated with a commentary by Richard Robinson; with a supplementary essay by David Keyt, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Saunders, T., Politics: Books I and II, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Shields, Christopher, De Anima, translated with an introduction and commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Smith, R., Topics Books I and VIII, With excerpts from related texts, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Striker, G., Prior Analytics, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Taylor, C., Nicomachean Ethics, Books II-IV, translated with an introduction and commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Williams, C., De Generatione et Corruptione, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Woods, M., Eudemian Ethics Books I, II, and VIII, second edition, edited, and translated with a commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

C. General Works

1. Comprehensive Introductions to Aristotle

• Ackrill, J., Aristotle the Philosopher, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Jaeger, W., Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of his Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934.
• Lear, J., Aristotle: the Desire to Understand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Ross, W. D., Aristotle, London: Methuen and Co., 1923.
• Shields, C., Aristotle 2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2014.

2. General Guide Books to Aristotle

• Barnes, J., The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Anagnostopoulos, G., The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
• Shields, C., The Oxford Handbook on Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

3. Aristotle’s Life

• Natali, C., Aristotle: His Life and School, D. Hutchinson (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

D. Bibliography of Works Cited

• Annas, J., 1982, ‘Aristotle on inefficient causes,’ Philosophical Quarterly, 32: 311–326. (Scholar)
• Bakker, Paul J. J. M., 2007, ‘Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics, or Something in Between: Agostino Nifo, Pietro Pompanazzi, and Marcantonio Genua on the Nature and Place of the Science of Soul,’ in J. J. M. Bakker and Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen (eds.), Mind, Cognition, and Representation: The Tradition of Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima, London: Ashgate, pp. 151–177. (Scholar)
• Barnes, Jonathan, 1994, Posterior Analytics, second edition, translated with a commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Biondi, Paolo C. (ed. and trans.), (2004), Aristotle: Posterior Analytics ii 19, Paris: Librairie-Philosophique-J-Vrin. (Scholar)
• Bostock, David, 1980/2006, ‘Aristotle’s Account of Time,‘ in Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle’s Physics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 135–157. (Scholar)
• Charles, David, 2001, “Teleological Causation in the Physics,” in L. Judson (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics: A Collection of Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101–128. (Scholar)
• Cleary, John, 1994, ‘Phainomena in Aristotle’s Philosophic Method,’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2: 61–97. (Scholar)
• Coope, Ursula, 2005, Time for Aristotle: Physics IV 10–14, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Duarte, Shane, 2014, ‘Aristotle’s Theology and its Relation to the Science of Being qua Being,’ Apeiron, 40: 267–318 (Scholar)
• Frede, M., 1980, ‘The Original Notion of Cause,’ in M. Schofield, M. Burnyeat, and J. Barnes (ed.), Doubt and Dogmatism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 217–249. (Scholar)
• Furley, D. J., ‘What Kind of Cause is Aristotle’s Final Cause?,’ in M. Frede and G. Stricker (eds.), Rationality in Greek Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 59–79. (Scholar)
• Gill, M. L., ‘Aristotle’s Metaphysics Reconsidered,’ Journal of the History of Philosophy, 43 (2005): 223–251. (Scholar)
• Gotthelf, A., 1987, ‘Aristotle’s Conception of Final Causality,’ in A. Gotthelf and J. G. Lennox (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 204–242. (Scholar)
• Grote, George, 1880, Aristotle, London: Thoemmes Continuum. (Scholar)
• Halliwell, Stephen, 1986, Aristotle’s Poetics, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Scholar)
• Hocutt, M., 1974, ‘Aristotle’s Four Becauses.’ Philosophy, 49: 385–399. (Scholar)
• Irwin, Terence, 1981, ‘Homonymy in Aristotle,’ Review of Metaphysics, 34: 523–544. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988, Aristotle’s First Principles, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Johnson, Monte Ransom, 2005, Aristotle on Teleology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kraut, Richard, 1979, ‘Two Conceptions of Happiness, Philosophical Review, 88: 167–197. (Scholar)
• Lewis, Frank A., 2004, ‘Aristotle on the Homonymy of Being,’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68: 1–36. (Scholar)
• Loux, Michael, 1973, ‘Aristotle on the Transcendentals,’ Phronesis, 18: 225–239. (Scholar)
• Moravcsik, J., 1975, ‘“Aitia” as generative factor in Aristotle’s philosophy,’ Dialogue, 14: 622–638. (Scholar)
• Owen, G. E. L., 1960, ‘Logic and Metaphysics in Some Earlier Works of Aristotle,’ in I. During and G. E. L. Owen (eds.), Plato and Aristotle in the Mid-Fourth Century, Göteborg: Almquist and Wiksell, pp. 163–190. (Scholar)
• –––, 1961/1986, ‘Tithenai ta phainomena,’ Logic, Science and Dialectic, London: Duckworth, pp. 239–251. (Scholar)
• Owens, Joseph, 1978, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics, 3^rd edition, Toronto: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)
• Patzig, Gunther, 1979, ‘Theology and Ontology in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, in J. Barnes, M. Schofied, and R. Sorabji (eds.), Articles on Aristotle, Volume 3: Metaphysics, London: Duckworth, pp. 33–49. (Scholar)
• Pellegrin, Pierre, 1996/2003, ‘Aristotle,’ in J. Brunschwig and G. E. R. Lloyd (eds.), A Guide to Greek Thought, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 32–53. (Scholar)
• Ross, W. D., 1923, Aristotle, London: Methuen and Co. (Scholar)
• Sauvé Meyer, S., 1992, ‘Aristotle, Teleology, and Reduction,’ Philosophical Review, 101: 791–825. (Scholar)
• Shields, Christopher, 1999, Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, Aristotle, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Shute, Richard, 1888, On the Process by which the Aristotelian Writings Arrived at their Present Form, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ward, Julie K., 2008, Aristotle on Homonymy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Zeller, Eduard, 1883/1955, Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy, rev. by W. Nestle, trans. L. Palmer, London: Routledge. (Scholar)