Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy 2nd edition

The first edition of this mighty tome, 1995 (RR 96/009), made a strict rule of not having any entries under the proper names of living philosophers. This did sometimes make it difficult to track down concepts that were strongly associated with a single author. The new edition has breached this rule in a number of cases, though not entirely consistently, making the dictionary easier for the non‐philosopher to use. Strictly speaking there is an argument for saying that a dictionary should not contain proper names at all, as one cannot define “Socrates” in the sense that one can produce a...