The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

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.

Nicholas Bunnin studied at Harvard University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is Director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford.

Eric Tsui-James lectured in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, Oxford before becoming Associated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong

Preface to the Second Edition

ix

Preface to the First Edition

x

Notes on Contributors

xii

Contemporary Philosophy in the United States

1

(22)

John R. Searle

Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look

23

(12)

Bernard Williams

Part I Areas of Philosophy

35

(548)

Epistemology

37

(24)

A. C. Grayling

Metaphysics

61

(29)

Simon Blackburn

Robin Le Poidevin

Philosophy of Language

90

(57)

Martin Davies

Philosophy of Logic

147

(26)

A. W. Moore

Philosophy of Mind

173

(29)

William G. Lycan

Ethics

202

(29)

John Skorupski

Aesthetics

231

(26)

Sebastian Gardner

Political and Social Philosophy

257

(29)

David Archard

Philosophy of Science

286

(31)

David Papineau

Philosophy of Biology

317

(28)

Elliott Sober

Philosophy of Mathematics

345

(30)

Mary Tiles

Philosophy of Social Science

375

(28)

Martin Hollis

Philosophy of Law

403

(25)

N. E. Simmonds

Philosophy of History

428

(25)

Leon Pompa

Philosophy of Religion

453

(37)

Charles Taliaferro

Applied Ethics

490

(9)

John Haldane

Bioethics, Genetics, and Medical Ethics

499

(18)

Rebecca Bennett

Charles A. Erin

John Harris

Soren Holm

Environmental Ethics

517

(14)

Holmes Rolston

Business Ethics

531

(21)

Georges Enderle

Philosophy and Feminism

552

(15)

Jean Grimshaw

Miranda Fricker

Ethnicity, Culture and Philosophy

567

(16)

Robert Bernasconi

Part II History of Philosophy

583

(292)

Ancient Greek Philosophy

585

(16)

Robert Wardy

Plato and Aristotle

601

(18)

Lesley Brown

Medieval Philosophy

619

(15)

Jorge J. E. Gracia

Bacon

634

(10)

Stephen Gaukroger

Descartes and Malebranche

644

(14)

Richard Francks

George Macdonald Ross

Spinoza and Leibniz

658

(13)

Richard Francks

George Macdonald Ross

Hobbes

671

(11)

Tom Sorell

Locke

682

(12)

R. S. Woolhouse

Berkeley

694

(15)

Howard Robinson

Hume

709

(16)

Peter Jones

Kant

725

(16)

David Bell

Hegel

741

(9)

Michael Inwood

Marx

750

(9)

Richard Norman

Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick

759

(15)

Ross Harrison

Pragmatism

774

(16)

Susan Haack

Frege and Russell

790

(15)

R. M. Sainsbury

Moore

805

(6)

Thomas Baldwin

Wittgenstein

811

(16)

David Pears

Nietzsche

827

(15)

David E. Cooper

Husserl and Heidegger

842

(18)

Taylor Carman

Sartre, Foucault and Derrida

860

(15)

Gary Gutting

Glossary

875

(18)

Appendix

893

(12)

Index

905

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