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Western Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition

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John G. Cottingham 

ISBN: 978-1-119-62256-7

July 2019

Wiley-Blackwell

896 pages

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Western Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition

John G. Cottingham

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978-1-119-62256-7
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Description
Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.
  • Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the greats of philosophy, arranged thematically and chronologically
  • Readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments
  • Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory of knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political theory, and aesthetics
  • Updated edition now includes additional contemporary readings in each section
  • Augmented by two completely new sections on logic and language, and philosophy and the meaning of life
About the Author
John Cottingham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of many books including Rationalism (1984), Descartes (1986), The Rationalists (1988), Philosophy and the Good Life (1998), and On the Meaning of Life (2003), and is co-translator of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. He was from 1991–5 Chairman of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and is (since 1993) editor of Ratio, the international journal of analytic philosophy.
Features

  • New edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition, from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today
  • Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the greats of philosophy, arranged thematically and chronologically
  • Readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments
  • Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory of knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political theory, and aesthetics
  • Updated edition now includes additional contemporary readings in each section
  • Augmented by two completely new sections on logic and language, and philosophy and the meaning of life
Series
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
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