Philosophy 2 : Further Through the Subject

by A. C. Grayling

• ISBN13: 9780198751786
• ISBN10: 0198751788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

This companion to the highly successful Philosophy: A Guide through the Subject, (recently reissued as Philosophy 1) is a lively and authoritative guide through important areas of philosophy that are typically studied in the later parts of an undergraduate course. Thirteen extended essays have been specially commissioned, each introducing a major area and giving an accessible and up-to-date account of the main debates. The first seven cover the philosophies of language, psychology, religion, and the natural and social sciences. The second part of the book completes the guide through the history of philosophy begun in the first volume, covering later ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, Kant, continental philosophy from Hegel, Frege, Russell Wittgenstein, and Indian philosophy.

Author Biography

A. C. Grayling is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. His publications include Wittgenstein (OUP, 1988), Russell (OUP,1996), both in the Past Masters Series, and Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject (OUP, 1995).

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Editor's Introduction	1	(3)
The Philosophy of Psychology	4	(68)
Ned Block
Gabriel Segal
The Philosophy of Language	72	(50)
Christopher Peacocke
The Philosophy of Mathematics	122	(75)
Michael Dummett
Philosophy and the Natural Sciences	197	(70)
John Worrall
The Philosophy of Religion	267	(84)
M. W. F. Stone
Political Philosophy	351	(69)
Alan Ryan
The Philosophy of the Social Sciences	420	(50)
David-Hillel Ruben
Later Ancient Philosophy	470	(47)
David Mitchell
Medieval Philosophy	517	(57)
Christopher Hughes
Kant	574	(89)
Sebastian Gardner
Continental Philosophy From Hegel	663	(42)
Michael Rosen
Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein	705	(88)
A. C. Grayling
Bernhard Weiss
Indian Philosophy	793	(56)
Paul Williams
Index	849