UID:
edocfu_9959242209202883
Format:
1 online resource (997 p.)
ISBN:
0-231-10129-5
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0-231-50034-3
Uniform Title:
Pimlico history of Western philosophy.
Content:
〈div〉〈P〉Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy. 〈P〉The Columbia History significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought, the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of women within the
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Realism Versus Nominalism4. The Renaissance; Between Ockham and Descartes; Aristotelianisms; Humanism; Platonism; Doubt and Innovation; 5. Seventeenth-Century Philosophy; The Sceptical Crisis; René Descartes; Seventeenth-Century Philosophy After Descartes; Thomas Hobbes; Blaise Pascal; The Philosophy of the Royal Society of England; The Kabbala denudata; The Cambridge Platonists; Baruch de Spinoza; John Locke; Nicolas Malebranche; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Pierre Bayle and Bishop Huet, the Master Sceptics; Europe and Non-European Cultures; China and Western Philosophy in the Age of Reason
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6. Eighteenth-Century PhilosophyIntroduction; Isaac Newton; The Newton-Leibniz Controversy; Deism; George Berkeley; Immaterialism in the American Colonies: Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Edwards; David Hume; The French Enlightenment; Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff; Moses Mendelssohn; Thomas Reid; Scepticism Before Kant; The Berlin Academy; Immanuel Kant; Vico, Hamann, and Herder; Eighteenth-Century Racism; 7. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Introduction; Early Sceptical, Religious, and Literary Responses to Kantian Philosophy; The Flowering of Idealism; Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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F. W. J. SchellingG. W. F. Hegel; The Turn from Idealism; Arthur Schopenhauer; Søren Kierkegaard; Ludwig Feuerbach; Karl Marx; The Problem of Values in the Late Nineteenth Century; France; Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy; American Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century; The Beginnings of Pragmatism: Peirce, Wright, James, Royce; John Dewey; 8. Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy; Introduction; Symbolic Logic; The Logistic Thesis; The Theory of Descriptions; Logical Positivism; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin; Karl Popper and W.V. O. Quine; Direct-Reference Theorists
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Donald Davidson and John Searle
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-10128-7
Language:
English
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