The Blackwell companion to philosophy
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The Blackwell companion to philosophy
(Blackwell companions to philosophy, 1)
John Wiley & Sons, [20--]
2nd ed.
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James' popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-commissioned chapters from a prestigious team of scholars writing on each of the key areas, figures and movements in philosophy.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition x
Notes on Contributors xii
Contemporary Philosophy in the United States John R. Searle 1
Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look - Bernard Williams 23
Part I Areas of Philosophy 35
1 Epistemology - A. C. Grayling 37
2 Metaphysics - Simon Blackburn, with a section on Time by Robin Le Poidevin 61
3 Philosophy of Language - Martin Davies 90
4 Philosophy of Logic - A. W Moore 147
5 Philosophy of Mind - William G. Lycan 173
6 Ethics - John Skorupski 202
7 Aesthetics - Sebastian Gardner 231
8 Political and Social Philosophy**David Archard 257
9 Philosophy of Science - David Papineau 286
10 Philosophy of Biology - Elliott Sober 317
11 Philosophy of Mathematics - Mary Tiles 345
12 Philosophy of Social Science - Martin Hollis 375
13 Philosophy of Law N. E. Simmonds 403
14 Philosophy of History*Leon Pompa 428
15 Philosophy of Religion - Charles Taliaferro 453
16 Applied Ethics - John Haldane 490
17 Bioethics, Genethics and Medical Ethics ... Rebecca Bennett. Charles A. Erin. John Harris and Soren Holm 499
18 Environmental Ethics - Holmes Rolston, III 517
19 Business Ethics - Georges Enderle 531
20 Philosophy and Feminism - Jean Grimshaw and Miranda Fricker 552
21 Ethnicity, Culture, and Philosophy - Robert Bernasconi 567
Part II History of Philosophy 583
22 Ancient Greek Philosophy Robert Wardy 585
23 Plato and Aristotle - Lesley Brown 601
24 Medieval Philosophy - Jorge J. E. Gracia 619
25 Bacon - Stephen Gaukroger 634
26 Descartes and Malebranche - Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 644
27 Spinoza and Leibniz - Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 658
28 Hobbes Tom Sorell 671
29 Locke - R. S. Woolhouse 682
30 Berkeley - Howard Robinson 694
31 Hume**Peter Jones 709
32 Kant - David Bell 725
33 Hegel - Michael Inwood 741
34 Marx - Richard Norman 750
35 Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick - Ross Harrison 759
36 Pragmatism**Susan Haack 774
37 Prege and Russell - R. M. Sainsbury 790
38 Moore Thomas Baldwin 805
39 Wittgenstein - David Pears 811
40 Nietzsche - David E. Cooper 827
41 Husserl and Heidegger - Taylor Carman 842
42 Sartre. Foucault and Derrida*Gary Gutting 860
Glossary 875
Appendix 893
Index 905
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