Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

Nicholas Bunnin studied at Harvard University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is Director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford. Eric Tsui-James lectured in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, Oxford before becoming Associated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong

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• Preface to the Second Edition ixPreface to the First Edition xNotes on Contributors xiiContemporary Philosophy in the United States John R. Searle 1Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look – Bernard Williams 23Part I Areas of Philosophy 351 Epistemology – A. C. Grayling 372 Metaphysics – Simon Blackburn, with a section on Time by Robin Le Poidevin 613 Philosophy of Language – Martin Davies 904 Philosophy of Logic – A. W Moore 1475 Philosophy of Mind – William G. Lycan 1736 Ethics – John Skorupski 2027 Aesthetics – Sebastian Gardner 2318 Political and Social Philosophy··David Archard 2579 Philosophy of Science – David Papineau 28610 Philosophy of Biology – Elliott Sober 31711 Philosophy of Mathematics – Mary Tiles 34512 Philosophy of Social Science – Martin Hollis 37513 Philosophy of Law N. E. Simmonds 40314 Philosophy of History·Leon Pompa 42815 Philosophy of Religion – Charles Taliaferro 45316 Applied Ethics – John Haldane 49017 Bioethics, Genethics and Medical Ethics ... Rebecca Bennett. Charles A. Erin. John Harris and Søren Holm 49918 Environmental Ethics – Holmes Rolston, III 51719 Business Ethics – Georges Enderle 53120 Philosophy and Feminism – Jean Grimshaw and Miranda Fricker 55221 Ethnicity, Culture, and Philosophy – Robert Bernasconi 567Part II History of Philosophy 58322 Ancient Greek Philosophy Robert Wardy 58523 Plato and Aristotle – Lesley Brown 60124 Medieval Philosophy – Jorge J. E. Gracia 61925 Bacon – Stephen Gaukroger 63426 Descartes and Malebranche – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 64427 Spinoza and Leibniz – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 65828 Hobbes Tom Sorell 67129 Locke – R. S. Woolhouse 68230 Berkeley – Howard Robinson 69431 Hume··Peter Jones 70932 Kant – David Bell 72533 Hegel – Michael Inwood 74134 Marx – Richard Norman 75035 Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick – Ross Harrison 75936 Pragmatism··Susan Haack 77437 Prege and Russell – R. M. Sainsbury 79038 Moore Thomas Baldwin 80539 Wittgenstein - David Pears 81140 Nietzsche – David E. Cooper 82741 Husserl and Heidegger – Taylor Carman 84242 Sartre. Foucault and Derrida·Gary Gutting 860Glossary 875Appendix 893Index 905