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This fully revised third edition of this classic concise encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #434560 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

From the Back Cover
With entries ranging from 'African Philosophy' and Animals, through Epistemology and Frege, to Translation, Weil and Wittgenstein, The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy provides not only a comprehensive survey of philosophy at its best, but some brilliant samples of it too.

This new edition contains classic articles by writers like A.J. Ayer, Michael Dummett, R.M. Hare, Gilbert Ryle, P.F. Strawson and Bernard Williams not to mention J.L. Ackrill, Dorothy Emmett, H.L.A. Hart, Walter Kaufmann, Alasdair MacIntyre, and G.J. Warnock, alongside dozens of new entries on newly emerging philosophers and new themes and approaches.

Ever since its first appearance in 1960, The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy has been recognised as a classic, and this new edition brings it completely up to date. It offers a lively, and authoritative treatment of Western philosophy as a whole, with scintillating articles by leading philosophical authors. It can serve not only as a convenient reference work, but also as an engaging introduction to philosophy.

About the Author
Jonathan Rée is a freelance historian, journalist and philosopher. His books include Descartes, Philosophy and its Past, Proletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales, Heidegger, and I See a Voice.

J.O. Urmson was Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

J.L. Ackrill, Peter Lamarque, H.B. Acton, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, A. Hilary Armstrong, Genevieve Lloyd, Christopher J. Arthur, J.D. Mabbott, Sir Alfred J. Ayer, David Macey, Errol Bedford, Alastair Macintyre, Ted Benton, D.M. Mackinnon, Sir Isaiah Berlin, D.G.C. MacNabb, Robert L. Bernasconi, Michael Macnamara, Jay M. Bernstein, Rudolf Makkreel, Karl Britton, Philip Merlan, Stephen R.L. Clark, Ernest Nagel, Joseph G. Dawson, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Peter Dews, James O'Connell, M.E.A. Dummett, D.J. O'Connor, Dorothy M. Emmet, David Papineau, A.C. Ewing, R.S. Peters, Marvin Farbar, Nicholas Phillipson, J.N. Findlay, Anthony Quinton, Thomas Gilby, Jonathan Powers, Colin Gordon, Jonathan Rée, Ian Hacking, Richard Robinson, Roland Hall, Erwin I.J. Rosenthal, Alastair Hannay, David-Hillel Ruben, R.M. Hare, Gilbert Ryle, R. Harre, Ruth Lydia Saw, Ross Harrison, Peter Singer, H.L.A . Hart, Kate Soper, D.J.B. Hawkins, P.F. Strawson, P L Heath, Charles Taylor, Ronald W. Hepburn, F.A. Taylor, Edmund Hill, Ivo Thomas, Paulin Houtondji, Mary Tiles, Walter Kaufmann, J .O. Urmson, Richard Kearney, Jeremy Waldron, Douglas M. Kellner, James Ward Smith, I.G. Kidd, G.J. Warnock, G.S. Kirk, Alan R. White, Stephen Korner, B.A.O. Williams, David Farrell Krell, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Bruce Kuklick, Matthew Nudds, David Archard

Customer Reviews

For the PhiLOSTophers.
This book was first published in 1960 and later completely revised in 1989, my version is a reprint from 1992.

As the title says it's a Concise Encyclopedia, it is about 330 pages so the entrys are short, but they are good, reasonably clear and to the point.

I used this book a lot when studying Philosophy, the good thing about this Encyclopedia is that not only does it cover Philosophical terms but also Philosophers and their main theories, and it is Cross referenced with Bold type.

So it's a good basic Encyclopedia, And it worked well for me and continues to do so.