The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy

This work is a very useful addition to a crowded field. Western philosophy keeps changing and this work reflects that: it is modern, catholic, incisive, pragmatic, and always challenging. People studying philosophy – at higher levels of school and college and lower levels of university – will find the coverage here highly satisfying. It ranges across the familiar philosophical areas, like epistemology and logic, ethics and metaphysics, but it is also strong on areas of philosophy being widely taught and studied at present – like political philosophy, meaning and discourse, modern European philosophy, aesthetics, and gender.

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