The handy philosophy answer book
Zack, Naomi, 1944-2014
eBook
Abstract: Analyzing the collective effort of philosophers throughout history in the pursuit of truth and wisdom, the guide explores the tangible significance of philosophical thought to modern society and civilization as a whole.
Main title:
The handy philosophy answer book / Naomi Zack.
Author:
Zack, Naomi, 1944-, authorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014.Canton [Michigan] : Visible Ink Press, [2010]
Collation:
1 online resource (69 entries) : 142 images ; digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
"Your smart reference"--Cover.Includes bibliographical references.Also available in print.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xi, 492 pages : illustrations
Contents:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- THE BASICS -- ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY -- Greek Pre-Socratics -- The Sophists -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy -- Women Philosophers in Ancient Greece and Rome -- NEOPLATONISM THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE -- Neoplatonism -- Medieval Philosophy -- Islam's Influence -- The Scholastics -- Maimonides -- Thomas Aquinas -- Other Important Medieval Philosophers -- Renaissance Humanism -- SKEPTICAL AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY -- Michel de Montaigne -- The Scientific Revolution -- Johannes Kepler's Influence -- Francis Bacon and the Scientific Revolution -- Medicine and Philosophy -- EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY -- Seventeenth Century Rationalism -- Francisco Suárez -- René Descartes -- Benedict de Spinoza -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Seventeenth Century Empiricism -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- The Cambridge Platonists -- Gender and Early Modern Women Philosophers -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Thomas Reid and Jeremy Bentham -- Immanuel Kant -- Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin -- The Philosophes -- Counter-Enlightenment Figures -- NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY -- Nineteenth Century Empiricism -- William Whewell -- John Stuart Mill -- August Comte -- Intuitionism -- Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic -- German Idealism -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -- Friedrich Schelling -- Friedrich Hegel -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Bernard Bosanquet -- Materialism, Marxism, and Anarchists -- Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach -- Marxism -- Anarchism -- Psychology and Social Theory -- Franz Brentano -- Alexius Meinong -- Sigmund Freud -- Herbert Spencer -- Sociology and Philosophy -- CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY -- Existentialism -- Sr̜en Kierkegaard -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Other Existentialists -- Phenomenology -- Edmund Husserl -- Martin Heidegger -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Critical Theory and Structuralism -- Critical Theorists -- Structuralists -- AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY -- Early American Philosophical Strains -- St. Louis Hegelians -- New England Transcendentalists -- Social Darwinism -- Pragmatism and Process Philosophy -- Charles Sanders Peirce -- William James -- Josiah Royce -- John Dewey -- Jane Addams -- George Herbert Mead -- Ralph Barton Perry -- C.I. Lewis -- Process Philosophy -- ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -- Early Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy -- G.E. Moore -- Truth-Functional Logic and Logical Atomism -- Bertrand Russell -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Other Logicians -- Logical Positivism -- The Vienna Circle -- Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Analytic Ethics -- Analytic Political Philosophy -- Epistemology and Metaphysics after Logical Positivism -- W.V.O. Quine -- Hilary Putnam -- Philosophy of Science -- Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language -- Noam Chomsky -- Jerry Fodor -- NEW PHILOSOPHY -- Postmodern Philosophy -- Jacques Derrida and Deconstructionism -- Richard Rorty -- Jürgen Habermas -- More French Postmodernist Philosophers -- Other American Philosophies -- African American Philosophy -- Native American Philosophy -- Latin American Philosophy -- Other Continental Traditions -- Afro-Centrism and African Philosophy -- Buddhism and Confucianism -- Feminist Philosophy -- Environmental Philosophy -- Other Trends in New Philosophy -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781578592265 (pbk.)9781784024215 (electronic version)1578592267 (pbk.)
Dewey class:
100
LC class:
B72
Language:
English
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BRN:
502189
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