Philosophy bites back
By: David Edmonds & Nigel Warburton
Contributors: Warburton, Nigel, 1962-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780199693009
Subjects: Philosophers; Philosophy
Description: "Twenty-seven of today's leading philosophers each introduce and explore ideas from one of history's greatest minds" --Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mary Margaret McCabe on Socrates and the Socratic method --; title: Angie Hobbs on Plato on erotic love --; title: Terence Irwin on Aristotle's ethics --; title: Anthony Kenny on Thomas Aquinas' ethics --; title: Quentin Skinner on Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince" --; title: Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne --; title: A.C. Grayling on René Descartes' "Cogito" --; title: Susan James on Baruch de Spinoza on the passions --; title: John Dunn on John Locke on toleration --; title: John Campbell on George Berkeley's puzzle --; title: Peter Millican on David Hume's significance --; title: Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on what human beings are like --; title: Melissa Lane on Jean-Jacques Rousseau on modern society --; title: Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on politics --; title: A.W. Moore on Immanuel Kant's metaphysics --; title: Robert Stern on G.W.F. Hegel on dialectic --; title: Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" --; title: Claire Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" --; title: Aaron Ridley on Friedrich Nietzsche on art and truth --; title: Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's ethics --; title: Robert B. Talisse on the Pragmatists and the truth --; title: Barry C. Smith on Ludwig Wittgenstein --; title: Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on truth --; title: Mary Warnock on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism --; title: Chandran Kukathas on Friedrich Hayek and liberalism --; title: Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls on justice --; title: Robert Rowland Smith on Jacques Derrida on forgiveness.