The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A recent poll of popular philosophers on UK radio revealed that Marx came out top, with Wittgenstein in second place. I would have placed Locke and Hume much higher, but there it is, and, whoever comes top, it certainly indicates a widespread – if idiosyncratic – popular interest in philosophy. Such an interest is confirmed, and will be stimulated, by the publication of works like the one under review.

The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an offshoot of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy or REP (Craig, 1998), the online version (Craig, 2004) of which (version...