9780199812691 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 9, 2011, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: After a Darwinian-type account of what beliefs are and how they arose in animals acting to cope with their environments--"low beliefs," virtually all of which are true--Wallace Matson here shows how the invention of language led to imagination and thence to beliefs formed in other ways ("high beliefs"), not true though thought to be, which could be consolidated into mythologies, the first Grand Unified Theories of Everything.

9781591023975 | Humanity Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: These incisive, witty, and completely accessible essays on a wide range of topics by historian of philosophy Wallace Matson admirably demonstrate that philosophy can still be based on careful reasoning and presented with clarity of expression.

9780155078499 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, September 1, 1999), cover price $116.95 | About this edition: This two volume series introduces the fascinating story of philosophy in a lucid, readable style students enjoy reading.

9780155078482 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, May 1, 1999), cover price $116.95 | About this edition: This two volume series introduces the fascinating story of philosophy in a lucid, readable style students enjoy reading.

9780155176614 | Facsimile edition (Harcourt College Pub, August 1, 1987), cover price $48.95

9780155657298 | Harcourt College Pub, August 1, 1986, cover price $40.95 | also contains Secretos del manga 2 Ninjas y samurais/ Let's Draw Manga 2 Ninja And Samurai | About this edition: A New History of Philosophy