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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -Publisher`s Synopsis Over 50 extended entries on the key areas of philosophy and the great philosophers 80 black and white portraits Almost 2000 entries by 249 distinguished contributors `The brave large aim of this book` writes Ted Honderich `is to bring philosophy together between two covers better than ever before. That is not a job for one man or one woman or a few or a team although it is tried often enough. So 249 of us have joined The distinguished international assembly of philosophers who contribute to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy have succeeded in creating the most authoritative and engaging philosophical reference work in English. It gives clear and reliable guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-language philosophy: it surveys the foremost philosophy from all parts of the world. The book`s 2000 alphabetically arranged entries which cover everything from animal souls arthritis in the thigh and brain in a vat to Zoroastrianism and vague objects are not only instructive but also entertaining: they combine learning lucidity elegance and wit; There are more than fifty extended entries of 3000 words on the main areas of philosophy and the great philosophers. These include: Alasdair MacIntyre on histories of moral philosophy Paul Feyerabend on the history of the philosophy of science Jaegwon Kim on problems of the philosophy of mind Ernest Sosa on problems of metaphysics Geoffrey Warnock on Berkeley Peter Singer on Hegel Anthony Kenny on Frege Anthony Quinton on philosophy itself The many fascinating shorter entries deal key concepts-personal identity time dualism doctrines-utilitarianism holism stoicism problems-the mind-body problem the meaning of life schools of thought-Marxist philosophy the Vienna Circle Practical issues-abortion vegetarianism Individual thinkers past-Pythagoras Confucius Galileo Goethe Burke Santayana de Beauvoir Radhakrishnan Popper Individual thinkers present-over 150 contemporary figures such as Davidson Derrida and Berlin are profiled. There are eighty black-and-white portraits of philosophers from the Greeks onwards including some throughout are short explanations of particular philosophical terms (qualia supervenience iff) puzzles (the Achilles paradox the prisoner`s dilemma) and curiosities (the philosopher`s stone slime). Each entry is accompanied by suggestions for further reading. A chronological chart of the history of philosophy is located at the end of the book together with fifteen diagrams showing the structure of philosophy and the relations between its subjects and doctrines. This book will be an indispensable guide and a constant source of stimulation and enlightenment for anyone interested in abstract thought the eternal questions and the foundations of human understanding. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Oxford University Press The date of this copy is 1995 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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