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Book SynopsisThis 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.
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Companion an outstanding choice for introductory courses in philosophy."
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Table of ContentsPreface 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 Søren 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
