Great philosophers
By: Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Contributors: Garvey, James, 1967-
Series: Great people in history; Great people in history
Publisher: Rosen Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781477704042
Subjects: Philosophers; Philosophy; Biography; History
Description: Introduces history's greatest philosophers and explains their major contributions to the field of philosophy, profiling such figures as Francis Bacon, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 125) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient and Medieval. Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: Renaissance. Niccolo Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon; title: 17th century. Thomas Hobbes ; Rene Descartes ; John Locke ; Baruch Spinoza ; Gottfried Leibniz; title: 18th century. George Berkeley ; David Hume ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Immanuel Kant ; Thomas Paine ; Georg Hegel; title: 19th century. John Stuart Mill ; S©ıren Kierkegaard ; Karl Marx ; William James ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; John Dewey; title: 20th century. Bertrand Russell ; Ludwig Wittgenstein ; Martin Heidegger ; Sir Karl Popper ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Michel Foucault.