Barnes, Jonathan. "The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus." In his The Presocratic Philosophers, Vol. 1: Thaïes to Zeno, pp. 57-99. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Concludes that Heraclitus's thought is firmly in the Ionian tradition and that he "offered a philosophy of science which exhibits an admirable articulation, and foreshadows one of the most influential of Aristotle's doctrines, the doctrine of real essence."

Burnet, John. "Herakleitos and Parmenides." In his Greek Philosophy, Part 1: Thaïes to Plato, pp. 57-68. London: Macmillan & Co., 1920.

Classic general account of early Greek philosophy that states that Heraclitus, "despite his prophetic tone and his use of religious languages, never broke through the secularism and pantheism of the Ionians."

Emlyn-Jones, C. J. "Heraclitus and the Identity of Opposites." Phronesis XXI, No. 2 (1976): 89-114.

Examination of the relationship between opposites in Heraclitus's thought and their relationship to other elements in his philosophy, maintaining that "the identity of opposites is presented as a mystery which has objective existence outside men and controls their lives, although it is only dimly grasped by most of them."

Guthrie, W. K. C. "Heraclitus." In his A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, pp. 403-87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

Influential summation of Heraclitus's philosophical achievement that focuses on his natural philosophy, and theology and his key conceptual terms.

Hussey, Edward. "Heraclitus on Living and Dying." The Monist 74, No. 4 (October 1991): 517-30.

Exploration of Heraclitus's cryptic comments on life and death, focusing on the fragment "Immortals, mortals; mortals, immortals; living the others' dying, having died the others' living."

Kirk, G. S., Raven, J. E., and Schofield, M. J. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." In The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, pp. 181-213. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Examination of the textual history and critical reception of Heraclitus's philosophy that contains a generous selection of the fragments in both Greek and English.

Mackenzie, Mary Margaret. "Heraclitus and the Art of Paradox." In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. VI, pp. 1-29. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Analysis of Heraclitus's method of argument that explores the extent to which surviving fragments may be seen to offer resolution.

Minar, Edwin E., Jr. "The Logos of Heraclitus." Classical Philology XXXIV, No. 4 (October 1939): 323-41.

General analysis of the meaning in Heraclitean thought of logos, which Minar states is best rendered in English by "account."

Stokes, Michael C. "Heraclitus." In his One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy, pp. 86-108. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Discussion of Heraclitus's theology and the relationships between his views on fire, logos, and strife.

Vlastos, Gregory. "On Heraclitus." In Studies in Presocratic Philosophy, Vol. I: The Beginnings of Philosophy, edited by David J. Furley and R. E. Allen, pp. 413-29. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.

Examines the influence of other Ionian thinkers on Heraclitus, concluding that his speculative imagination transforms the concept of the unity of all things "into an assertion of the unity of all differences whatever, including moral ones, and pursues its consequences to that reckless and bewildering conclusion that 'for god all things are fair and good and just' which, if true, would be fatal for all morality, not excepting his own."