1995, ISBN: 9780198661320

Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1009 p. 23,6 x 5,3 x 16,0 cm, Original cloth laminated with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and … Mehr…

Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1009 p. 23,6 x 5,3 x 16,0 cm, Original cloth laminated with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - End paper creased, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - This is the most authoritative and engaging philosophical reference book 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. A distinguished international assembly of 249 contributors provide almost 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries which are not only instructive but also entertaining: they combine learning, lucidity, elegance, and wit. There are more than fifty extended entries of 3,000 words on the main areas of philosophy and the great philosophers. The former include essays by Paul Feyerabend on the history of the philosophy of science, Alasdair MacIntyre on histories of moral philosophy, Jaegwon Kim on problems of the philosophy of mind, Ernest Sosa on problems of metaphysics, and Anthony Quinton on philosophy itself. The latter include Anthony Kenny on Frege, Peter Singer on Hegel, John Cottingham on Descartes, and Richard Schacht on Nietzsche. Shorter entries deal with key concepts (for instance, personal identity, time), theories (utilitarianism, holism), problems (the mindbody problem, the meaning of life), schools of thought (Marxist philosophy, the Vienna Circle), and practical issues (abortion, vegetarianism). Individual thinkers past (including Pythagoras, Confucius, Galileo, Goethe, Burke, Santayana, de Beauvoir, Radhakrishnan, Popper) and present (over 150 contemporary figures, such as Chomsky, Derrida, and Berlin) are profiled, and eighty of them are depicted in black-and-white portraits. Interspersed 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). 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 theories. A comprehensive index and list of entries provides a helpful overall scheme of the book. 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. Including entries on the following topics and by the following contributors: -- the absurd, animals, anarchy, art: Isaiah Berlin -- chaos, Chinese room, computers. Davidson, Dummett, and Dworkin -- euthanasia, eternity, evil, evolution: Feyerabend and Foot -- ghost in the machine, God is dead: Jaakko Hintikka -- Indian, Irish, Islamic, and Italian philosophy: jaundice, judgement, justice: Kim, Kymlicka, and Kenny -- language, laughter, life, love, loyalty: Alasdair MacIntyre,Thomas Nagel -- oar in water, Ockham?s razor pain, paradoxes, paternalism, pineal gland: W. V. Quine -- resentment, revenge, and revolution: Searle and Singer -- tarot, tar-water, time travel, twin earth unconscious and subconscious mind vagueness, value, vegetarianism, void: Warnock and Warnock -- Xenocrates and Xenophanes, Zen and Zoroastrianism. - Ted Honderich is Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He was born in Canada and educated in Toronto and London. His major work is "A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience, and Life-Hopes", published by the Clarendon Press in 1988 and subsequently issued in two paperback volumes. He addresses the same subject for a more general readership in "How Free Are You?" (1993). He is also known for his writings on political philosophy, and for the widely successful philosophy readers which he has edited. ISBN 9780198661320Philosophie 1995, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

1995, ISBN: 0198661320

[EAN: 9780198661320], [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York], PHILOSOPHIE , Jacket, 24 cm ; Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diverse… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198661320], [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York], PHILOSOPHIE , Jacket, 24 cm ; Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diversen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw427 ISBN: 0198661320, Books<

1995, ISBN: 0198661320

Pp. 24 cm ; Pappband Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diversen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw427 ISBN: 0198661320 Philosophie ; … Mehr…

Pp. 24 cm ; Pappband Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diversen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw427 ISBN: 0198661320 Philosophie ; 3, [PU:Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York,]<

1995, ISBN: 0198661320

Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 24 cm ; Pp. Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diversen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw42… Mehr…

Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 24 cm ; Pp. Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, XVIII, 1009 Seiten mit diversen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw427 ISBN: 0198661320Philosophie [Philosophie] 1995, [PU: Oxford University Press]<