The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

by Popkin, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9781567313475
• ISBN10: 1567313477
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Fine Communications

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Richard H. Popkin
List of Contributors	xxi
Origins of Western Philosophic Thinking	1	(139)
Introduction	1	(5)
Richard H. Popkin
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers	6	(14)
Thomas M. Robinson
The Sophists	20	(3)
Thomas M. Robinson
Socrates and the Socratics	23	(9)
David K. O'Connor
Plato	32	(20)
Gerald A. Press
Aristotle	52	(20)
Richard Bodeus
Brief Summary of Aristotle's Writings	72	(2)
Gerald A. Press
Hellenistic Philosophy	74	(17)
A. A. Long
Middle Platonism	91	(9)
Harold Tarrant
Gnosticism	100	(2)
Harold Tarrant
Plotinus and Neoplatonism	102	(9)
Lloyd P.Gerson
Early Jewish and Christian Uses of Philosophy	111	(7)
Steve Mason
The Greek Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy	118	(10)
John Peter Kenney
The Latin Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy	128	(12)
James J. O'Donnell
Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy	140	(79)
Introduction	140	(4)
Richard H. Popkin
Sa`adya Gaon	144	(5)
Seymour Feldman
Jewish and Early Muslim Neoplatonism	149	(4)
Alfred L. Ivry
Abu Nasr Muhammed al-Farabi	153	(4)
Therese-Anne Druart
Avicenna	157	(6)
Michael E. Marmura
Al-Ghazali	163	(7)
James Naify
Philosophical Mysticism in Islamic Thought	170	(2)
Fadlou Shehadi
Introduction	172	(1)
Richard H. Popkin
Solomon ibn Gabirol	173	(4)
T. M. Rudavsky
Judah Halevi	177	(6)
Barry S. Kogan
Averroes	183	(5)
Alfred L. Ivry
Moses Maimonides	188	(8)
Daniel H. Frank
Jewish Averroism	196	(4)
Alfred L. Ivry
Gersonides	200	(4)
Robert Eisen
Hasdai Crescas, Joseph Albo, and Isaac Abrabanel	204	(6)
Warren Zev Harvey
Moses de Leon and the Zohar	210	(3)
Allison Coudert
Isaac Luria and the Lurianic Kabbalah	213	(2)
Allison Coudert
Abraham Cohen Herrera	215	(2)
Richard H. Popkin
Conclusion	217	(2)
Richard H. Popkin
Medieval Christian Philosophy	219	(60)
Early Period	219	(11)
Stephen F. Brown
Translation and Transmission of Greek Philosophy	230	(14)
Stephen F. Brown
Bonaventure	244	(7)
Stephen F. Brown
Thomas Aquinas	251	(5)
Stephen F. Brown
Latin Averroism	256	(5)
Stephen F. Brown
Scotus and Scotism	261	(6)
Stephen F. Brown
Late Scholasticism	267	(4)
Stephen F. Brown
Realism Versus Nominalism	271	(8)
Stephen F. Brown
The Renaissance	279	(50)
Between Ockham and Descartes	279	(1)
Brian P. Copenhaver
Aristotelianisms	280	(12)
Brian P. Copenhaver
Humanism	292	(11)
John Monfasani
Platonism	303	(12)
Michael J. B. Allen
Doubt and Innovation	315	(14)
Brian P. Copenhaver
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy	329	(93)
The Sceptical Crisis	329	(7)
Richard H. Popkin
Rene Descartes	336	(10)
Harry M. Bracken
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy After Descartes	346	(1)
Richard H. Popkin
Thomas Hobbes	346	(6)
G. A. J. Rogers
Blaise Pascal	352	(6)
Jose R. Maia Neto
The Philosophy of the Royal Society of England	358	(5)
Richard H. Popkin
The Kabbala denudata	363	(3)
Allison Coudert
The Cambridge Platonists	366	(7)
Sarah Hutton
Baruch de Spinoza	373	(9)
Richard H. Popkin
John Locke	382	(7)
G. A. J. Rogers
Nicolas Malebranche	389	(7)
Harry M. Bracken
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	396	(8)
Donald Rutherford
Pierre Bayle and Bishop Huet, the Master Sceptics	404	(8)
Richard H. Popkin
Europe and Non-European Cultures	412	(1)
Richard H. Popkin
China and Western Philosophy in the Age of Reason	412	(10)
Yuen-Ting Lai
Eighteenth-Century Philosophy	422	(94)
Introduction	422	(1)
Richard H. Popkin
Isaac Newton	423	(8)
James E. Force
The Newton-Leibniz Controversy	431	(6)
Donald Rutherford
Deism	437	(8)
Justin A. I. Champion
George Berkeley	445	(7)
Harry M. Bracken
Immaterialism in the American Colonies: Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Edwards	452	(2)
Richard H. Popkin
David Hume	454	(8)
Richard H. Popkin
The French Enlightenment	462	(10)
Richard H. Popkin
Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff	472	(3)
Manfred Kuehn
Moses Mendelssohn	475	(5)
Manfred Kuehn
Thomas Reid	480	(7)
Harry M. Bracken
Scepticism Before Kant	487	(3)
Manfred Kuehn
The Berlin Academy	490	(4)
John Christian Laursen
Immanuel Kant	494	(8)
Karl Ameriks
Vico, Hamann, and Herder	502	(6)
Richard H. Popkin
Eighteenth-Century Racism	508	(8)
Richard H. Popkin
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy	516	(88)
Introduction	516	(2)
Rudolf A. Makkreel
Early Sceptical, Religious, and Literary Responses to Kantian Philosophy	518	(6)
Frederick Beiser
The Flowering of Idealism	524	(18)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte	524	(4)
Gunter Zoller
F. W. J. Schelling	528	(5)
Dale E. Snow
G. W. F. Hegel	533	(9)
Tom Rockmore
The Turn from Idealism	542	(14)
Arthur Schopenhauer	542	(4)
Gunter Zoller
Søren Kierkegaard	546	(3)
Merold Westphal
Ludwig Feuerbach	549	(3)
Tom Rockmore
Karl Marx	552	(4)
Tom Rockmore
The Problem of Values in the Late Nineteenth Century	556	(11)
Rudolf A. Makkreel
Lotze and the Neo-Kantians
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Life
Wilhelm Dilthey: From Value to Meaning
France	567	(8)
Francois Azouvi
Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy	575	(12)
John Skorupski
American Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century	587	(5)
Richard H. Popkin
The Beginnings of Pragmatism: Peirce, Wright, James, Royce	592	(8)
Robert G. Meyers
John Dewey	600	(4)
Richard H. Popkin
Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy	604	(63)
Introduction	604	(2)
Avrum Stroll
Symbolic Logic	606	(4)
Avrum Stroll
The Logistic Thesis	610	(3)
Avrum Stroll
The Theory of Descriptions	613	(8)
Avrum Stroll
Logical Positivism	621	(8)
Avrum Stroll
Ludwig Wittgenstein	629	(13)
Avrum Stroll
Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin	642	(5)
Avrum Stroll
Karl Popper and W.V. O. Quine	647	(5)
Avrum Stroll
Direct-Reference Theorists	652	(3)
Avrum Stroll
Donald Davidson and John Searle	655	(2)
Avrum Stroll
New Directions	657	(10)
Avrum Stroll
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy	667	(88)
The Early Decades: Positivism, Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey	667	(8)
Steven Galt Crowell
Husserl and Phenomenology	675	(7)
David Carr
Martin Heidegger	682	(9)
Tom Nenon
Continental Philosophy of Science	691	(7)
Joseph J. Kockelmans
Existentialism and Beyond	698	(7)
Thomas R. Flynn
Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur	705	(7)
G. B. Madison
Continental Theistic Philosophers	712	(9)
Daniel Guerriere
Continental Philosophy: Neo-Marxism	721	(9)
David Ingram
French Feminist Philosophy	730	(7)
Jeanine Grenberg
Poststructuralism: Derrida and Foucault	737	(8)
Franz Peter Hugdahl
Continental Philosophy at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century	745	(10)
Charles E. Scott
Epilogue	755	(2)
Richard H. Popkin
Epilogue on the History of Philosophy	757	(22)
History of Philosophy and Reconstructing Philosophy	758	(7)
Constance Blackwell
Women in the History of Philosophy	765	(7)
Mary Ellen Waithe
Philosophy and the History of Philosophy	772	(7)
Richard H. Popkin
Index of Names	779	(22)
Index of Subjects	801