Western Philosophy

An Anthology

Cottingham, John G.

Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies

2. Auflage November 2007
888 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2477-5

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Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most
comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical
tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.

* Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the
greats of philosophy, arranged thematically and
chronologically

* Readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid
philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key
arguments

* Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory of
knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and
science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political
theory, and aesthetics

* Updated edition now includes additional contemporary readings
in each section

* Augmented by two completely new sections on logic and language,
and philosophy and the meaning of life

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Advice to Readers and Format of the Volume.

Part I: Knowledge and Certainty.

Part II: Being and Reality.

Part III: Language and Meaning.

Part IV: Mind and Body.

Part V: The Self and Freedom.

Part VI: God and Religion.

Part VII: Science and Method.

Part VIII: Morality and the Good Life.

Part IX: Problems in Ethics.

Part X: Authority and the State.

Part XI: Beauty and Art.

Part XII: Human Life and its Meaning.

Notes on the Philosophers.

Index

"Cottingham does a good job." (Times Higher Education Supplement)

John Cottingham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of many books including Rationalism (1984), Descartes (1986), The Rationalists (1988), Philosophy and the Good Life (1998), and On the Meaning of Life (2003), and is co-translator of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. He was from 1991-5 Chairman of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and is (since 1993) editor of Ratio, the international journal of analytic philosophy.

J. G. Cottingham, University of Reading