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9780192893222

The Great Philosophers An Introduction to Western Philosophy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192893222

  • ISBN10:

    019289322X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Conversations with 15 contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers. Includes contributions from A.J. Ayer, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, and John Searle. 28 halftones.

Author Biography


Bryan Magee is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and has published sixteen other books including Modern British Philosophy, and Creators of Contemporary Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface 8(4)
Bryan Magee
Plato
12(20)
Myles Burnyeat
Aristotle
32(24)
Martha Nussbaum
Medieval Philosophy
56(20)
Anthony Kenny
Descartes
76(20)
Bernard Williams
Spinoza and Leibniz
96(22)
Anthony Quinton
Locke and Berkeley
118(26)
Michael Ayers
Hume
144(24)
John Passmore
Kant
168(20)
Geoffrey Warnock
Hegel and Marx
188(22)
Peter Singer
Schopenhauer
210(22)
Frederick Copleston
Nietzsche
232(20)
J. P. Stern
Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
252(26)
Hubert Dreyfus
The American Pragmatists
278(20)
Sidney Morgenbesser
Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
298(22)
A. J. Ayer
Wittgenstein
320(28)
John Searle
Index 348

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