This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James’ popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-commissioned chapters from a prestigious team of scholars writing on each of the key areas, figures and movements in philosophy.

Table of Contents

PART I: AREAS OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Epistemology - A. C. Grayling

2. Metaphysics - Simon Blackburn, with a section on Time by Robin Le Poidevin

3. Philosophy of Language - Martin Davies

4. Philosophy of Logic - A. W. Moore

5. Philosophy of Mind - William G. Lycan

6. Ethics - John Skorupski

7. Aesthetics - Sebastian Gardner

8. Political and Social Philosophy - David Archard

9. Philosophy of Science - David Papineau

10. Philosophy of Biology - Elliott Sober

11. Philosophy of Mathematics - Mary Tiles

12. Philosophy of Social Science - Martin Hollis

13. Philosophy of Law - N. E. Simmonds

14. Philosophy of History - Leon Pompa

15. Philosophy of Religion - Charles Taliaferro

16. Applied Ethics - John Haldane

17. Bioethics, Genethics and Medical Ethics - Rebecca Bennett, Charles A. Erin, John Harris and Sroren Holm

18. Environmental Ethics - Holmes Rolston, 111

19. Business Ethics - Georges Enderle

20. Philosophy and Feminism - Jean Grimshaw and Miranda Fricker

21. Ethnicity, Culture and Philosophy - Robert Bernasconi

PART II: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

22. Ancient Greek Philosophy - Robert Wardy

23. Plato and Aristotle - Lesley Brown

24. Medieval Philosophy - Jorge J. E. Gracia

25. Bacon - Stephen Gaukroger

26. Descartes and Malebranche - Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross

27. Spinoza and Leibniz - Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross

28. Hobbes - Tom Sorell

29. Locke - R. S. Woolhouse

30. Berkeley - Howard Robinson

31. Hume - Peter Jones

32. Kant - David Bell

33. Hegel - Michael Inwood

34. Marx - Richard Norman

35. Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick - Ross Harrison

36. Pragmatism - Susan Haack

37. Frege and Russell - R. M. Sainsbury

38. Moore - Thomas Baldwin

39. Wittgenstein - David Pears

40. Nietzsche - David E. Cooper

41. Husserl and Heidegger - Taylor Carman

42. Sartre, Foucault and Derrida - Gary Gutting