Great Thinkers A-Z

by Baggini, Julian; Stangroom, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780826467423
• ISBN10: 0826467423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Great Thinkers, A-Z brings together 100 short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkerssuch as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and Freudwho have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, A-Z is the ideal book for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought. Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno>

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(18)
Theodor Adorno	19	(2)
St Thomas Aquinas	21	(3)
Hannah Arendt	24	(2)
Aristotle	26	(3)
St Augustine of Hippo	29	(2)
Avicenna	31	(2)
A.J. Ayer	33	(3)
Francis Bacon	36	(2)
Simone de Beauvoir	38	(2)
Walter Benjamin	40	(3)
Jeremy Bentham	43	(2)
Henri Bergson	45	(2)
George Berkeley	47	(3)
Franz Brentano	50	(2)
Joseph Butler	52	(2)
Albert Camus	54	(2)
Rudolf Carnap	56	(3)
Noam Chomsky	59	(2)
Paul Churchland	61	(2)
Helene Cixous	63	(3)
R.G. Collingwood	66	(2)
Auguste Comte	68	(3)
Charles Darwin	71	(2)
Donald Davidson	73	(2)
Gilles Deleuze	75	(3)
Daniel Dennett	78	(2)
Jacques Derrida	80	(2)
René Descartes	82	(2)
John Dewey	84	(3)
Wilhelm Dilthey	87	(2)
Albert Einstein	89	(2)
Desiderius Erasmus	91	(2)
Michel Foucault	93	(3)
Gottlob Frege	96	(2)
Sigmund Freud	98	(2)
Hans-Georg Gadamer	100	(3)
Mahatma Gandhi	103	(2)
Kurt Gödel	105	(3)
Jürgen Habermas	108	(2)
F.A. Hayek	110	(2)
Georg Hegel	112	(3)
Martin Heidegger	115	(2)
Thomas Hobbes	117	(2)
David Hume	119	(3)
Edmund Husserl	122	(2)
Luce Irigaray	124	(3)
William James	127	(2)
Immanuel Kant	129	(3)
Søren Kierkegaard	132	(2)
Saul Kripke	134	(2)
Thomas Kuhn	136	(3)
Jacques Lacan	139	(2)
Gottfried Leibniz	141	(3)
Emmanuel Levinas	144	(2)
David Lewis	146	(2)
John Locke	148	(3)
Niccolò Machiavelli	151	(2)
Alasdair MacIntyre	153	(3)
Karl Marx	156	(2)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty	158	(2)
John Stuart Mill	160	(3)
Michel de Montaigne	163	(2)
G.E. Moore	165	(2)
Thomas Nagel	167	(3)
Friedrich Neitzsche	170	(2)
Robert Nozick	172	(2)
Martha Nussbaum	174	(3)
Thomas Paine	177	(2)
Blaise Pascal	179	(2)
Charles Peirce	181	(3)
Plato	184	(2)
Plotinus	186	(2)
Karl Popper	188	(2)
Hilary Putnam	190	(2)
Pythagoras	192	(2)
Willard Van Orman Quine	194	(3)
Frank Ramsey	197	(2)
John Rawls	199	(2)
Richard Rorty	201	(2)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	203	(3)
Bertrand Russell	206	(2)
Gilbert Ryle	208	(2)
George Santayana	210	(2)
Jean-Paul Sartre	212	(2)
Ferdinand de Saussure	214	(3)
F.W.J. Schelling	217	(2)
Arthur Schopenhauer	219	(2)
John Duns Scotus	221	(2)
John Searle	223	(3)
Seneca	226	(2)
Henry Sidgwick	228	(2)
Peter Singer	230	(3)
Socrates	233	(2)
Baruch Spinoza	235	(2)
Charles Taylor	237	(2)
Alan Turing	239	(3)
Giambattista Vico	242	(2)
Simone Weil	244	(3)
A.N. Whitehead	247	(2)
Ludwig Wittgenstein	249	(4)
Chronological Index	253	(2)
Thematic Guides	255	(2)
Notes on Contributors	257	(6)
Index	263