Books like Essay concerning human understanding

Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke reads as analytical, systematic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Philosophical essays concerning human understanding

David Hume · 1900

Both explore epistemology & empiricism

77% genome match

Prolegomena

Immanuel Kant · 1883

Both explore epistemology & reason

75% genome match

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Alfred Klemmt · 1710

Both explore empiricism & perception

71% genome match

Meditationes de prima philosophia

René Descartes · 1642

Both explore epistemology & reason

69% genome match

Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

George Berkeley · 1713

Both explore perception & empiricism

70% genome match

The works of John Locke

John Locke · 1714

Both explore empiricism

66% genome match

Selections

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1718

Both explore reason & knowledge

66% genome match

Ethica

Benedictus de Spinoza · 1883

Both explore reason

62% genome match

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell · 1900

Both explore epistemology & knowledge

58% genome match

The idea of phenomenology

Edmund Husserl · 1964

Both explore epistemology

62% genome match

Lectures on justice, police, revenue and arms

Adam Smith · 1896

Same classic feel

62% genome match

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill · 1843

Both explore epistemology & empiricism

68% genome match