The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James’ popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-commissioned chapters from a prestigious team of scholars writing on each of the key areas, figures and movements in philosophy.

Table of Contents

PART I: AREAS OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Epistemology – A. C. Grayling

2. Metaphysics – Simon Blackburn, with a section on Time by Robin Le Poidevin

3. Philosophy of Language – Martin Davies

4. Philosophy of Logic – A. W. Moore

5. Philosophy of Mind – William G. Lycan

6. Ethics – John Skorupski

7. Aesthetics – Sebastian Gardner

8. Political and Social Philosophy – David Archard

9. Philosophy of Science – David Papineau

10. Philosophy of Biology – Elliott Sober

11. Philosophy of Mathematics – Mary Tiles

12. Philosophy of Social Science – Martin Hollis

13. Philosophy of Law – N. E. Simmonds

14. Philosophy of History – Leon Pompa

15. Philosophy of Religion – Charles Taliaferro

16. Applied Ethics – John Haldane

17. Bioethics, Genethics and Medical Ethics – Rebecca Bennett, Charles A. Erin, John Harris and Sroren Holm

18. Environmental Ethics – Holmes Rolston, 111

19. Business Ethics – Georges Enderle

20. Philosophy and Feminism – Jean Grimshaw and Miranda Fricker

21. Ethnicity, Culture and Philosophy – Robert Bernasconi

PART II: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

22. Ancient Greek Philosophy – Robert Wardy

23. Plato and Aristotle – Lesley Brown

24. Medieval Philosophy – Jorge J. E. Gracia

25. Bacon – Stephen Gaukroger

26. Descartes and Malebranche – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross

27. Spinoza and Leibniz – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross

28. Hobbes – Tom Sorell

29. Locke – R. S. Woolhouse

30. Berkeley – Howard Robinson

31. Hume – Peter Jones

32. Kant – David Bell

33. Hegel – Michael Inwood

34. Marx – Richard Norman

35. Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick – Ross Harrison

36. Pragmatism – Susan Haack

37. Frege and Russell – R. M. Sainsbury

38. Moore – Thomas Baldwin

39. Wittgenstein – David Pears

40. Nietzsche – David E. Cooper

41. Husserl and Heidegger – Taylor Carman

42. Sartre, Foucault and Derrida – Gary Gutting