Philosophy bites back
Edmonds, David (David J.), 1964-2012
Book
"Twenty-seven of today's leading philosophers each introduce and explore ideas from one of history's greatest minds." -- Cover.
Main title:
Philosophy bites back / David Edmonds & Nigel Warburton.
Work:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Collation:
xxiv, 274 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Met lit. opg.
Linking notes:
Available in other form: Philosophy bites back
Contents:
Mary Margaret McGabe on Socrates and the Socratic method -- Angie Hobbs on Plato on erotic love -- Terence Irwin on Aristotle's ethics -- Anthony Kenny on Thomas Aquinas's ethics -- Quentin Skinner on Niccolo Macchiavelli's The Prince -- Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne -- A.C. Grayling on Rene Descartes' Cogito -- Susan James on Baruch de Spinoza on the passions -- John Dunn on John Locke on toleration -- John Campbell on George Berkeley's puzzle -- Peter Millican on David Hume's significance -- Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on what human beings are like -- Melissa Lane on Jean-Jacques Rousseau on modern society -- Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on politics -- A.W. Moore on Immanuel Kant's metaphysics -- Robert Stern on G.W.F. Hegel on dialectic -- Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty -- Claire Carlisle on Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling -- Aaron Ridley on Friedrich Nietzsche on art and truth -- Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's ethics -- Robert B. Talisse on The Pragmatists and the truth -- Barry C. Smith on Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on truth -- Mary Warnock on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism -- Chandran Kukathas on Friedrich Hayek and liberalism -- Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls on justice -- Robert Rowland Smith on Jacques Derrida on forgiveness.
ISBN:
97801996930090199693005
Dewey class:
100
LC class:
B72
Language:
English
BRN:
218346
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Society | SOCIETY 100 EDMO | Available |