The concise encyclopedia of western philosophy / edited by Jonathan Rée and J.O. Urmson.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Edition: 3rd edDescription: vii, 398 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

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Cover Page Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Introduction to the second edition Introduction to the third edition A Abelard, Peter (c.1079–1142) Academy Adorno, Theodor W. (1903–69) Aenesidemus Aesthetics ‘African Philosophy’ Albert the Great (1206–80) Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717–83) Alexander, Samuel (1859–1938) Alienation Althusser, Louis (1918–90) American Philosophy Analysis Analytic Analytic Philosophy Analytical Marxism Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Anderson, John (1893–1962) Animals Anscombe, G. E. M. (1919–2001) Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) Antisthenes (c.444 to c.366 BC) A posteriori Applied Ethics A priori Aquinas,Thomas (c.1225–74) Arcesilaus of Pitane Arendt, Hannah (1906–75) Aristippus of Cyrene (c.435–356 BC) Aristotle (384–322 BC) Arnauld, Antoine (1612–94) Atomism Augustine (354–430) Aurelius Austin, John Langshaw (1911–60) Averroes (1126–98) Avicenna (980–1037) Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules (1910–89) B Bachelard, Gaston (1884–1962) Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) Bacon, Roger (c.1214–c. 1292) Barth, Karl (1886–1968) Barthes, Roland (1915–80) Bataille, Georges (1897–1962) Beauty Beauvoir, Simone de (1908–86) Behaviourism Being Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940) Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832) Berdyaev, Nicholas (1874–1948) Bergmann, Gustav (1906–87) Bergson, Henri Louis (1859–1941) Berkeley,George (1685–1753) Berlin, Isaiah (1909–97) Bioethics Black, Max (1909–88) Blanshard, Brand (1892–1987) Bloch, Ernst (1885–1977) Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c.480–c.524) Bonaventura (1221–74) Boole, George (1815–64) Bosanquet, Bernard (1848–1923) Boyle, Robert (1627–91) Bradley, Francis Herbert (1846–1924) Braithwaite, Richard Bevan (1900–88) Brandom, Robert (1950– ) Brentano, Franz (1838–1916) Broad, Charlie Dunbar (1887–1971) Buber, Martin (1878–1965) Burke, Edmund (1729–97) Butler, Joseph (1692–1752) C Cajetan, Thomas de Vio (1468–1534) Cambridge Platonists Canguilhem, Georges (1904–95) Cantor, Georg (1845–1918) Carnap, Rudolf (1891–1970) Carneades (c.213–c.129 BC) Cartesianism Cassirer, Ernst (1874–1945) Categorical Imperative Categories Cavell, Stanley (1926– ) Chomsky, Noam (1928– ) Chrysippus (c.280–207 BC) Church, Alonzo (1903–95) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BC) Clarke, Samuel (1675–1729) ‘Cogito ergo sum’ Cohen, Morris R. (1880–1947) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943) Communitarianism Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier (1796–1857) Conceptualism Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715–80) Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743–94) Continental Philosophy Contract, Social Cook Wilson Cosmogony Cosmological Argument Cratylus Critical Philosophy Critical Theory Croce, Benedetto (1866–1952) Cudworth, Ralph (1617–88) Cynicism Cyrenaics D Damascius Danto, Arthur C. (1924– ) Darwin, Charles (1809–82) Davidson, Donald (1917–2003) de Beauvoir, Simone Deconstruction Deduction Deism Deleuze, Gilles (1925–95) Democritus Dennett, Daniel (1942– ) Deontology Derrida, Jacques (1930– ) Descartes, René (1596–1650) Determinism Dewey, John (1859–1952) Dialectic Dialectical Materialism Diderot, Denis (1713–84) Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833–1911) Diogenes of Apollonia Diogenes of Sinope Diogenes Laertius Dogmatism Dualism Duhem, Pierre (1861–1916) Dummett, Michael (1925– ) E Edwards, Jonathan (1703–58) Eleatics Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82) Emotivism Empedocles Empiricism Encyclopedists Engels, Friedrich (1820–95) Epictetus (c.55–c.135 AD) Epicurus (342–270 BC) Epistemology Erigena, John Scotus (c.810–c.877) Ethics Evil Existentialism F Fallacy Fatalism Feminism Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas (1804–72) Feyerabend, Paul (1924–94) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814) Fodor, Jerry (1935– ) Foot, Philippa (1920–) Foucault, Michel (1926–84) Frankfurt School Freedom of the Will Frege, Gottlob (1848–1929) Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) Functionalism G Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900–2002) Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655) Gender Gentile, Giovanni (1875–1944) Geulincz, Arnold (1624–1669) Gilson, Etienne Henri (1884–1978) Glanvill, Joseph (1636–1680) Gödel, Kurt (1906–78) Goodman, Nelson (1906–98) Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937) Green, Thomas Hill (1836–82) H Habermas, Jürgen (1929– ) Hackenschmidt, George (1878–1968) Hacking, Ian (1936– ) Hamilton, Sir William (1788–1856) Hampshire, Stuart (1914–2004) Hare, Richard Mervyn (1919–2002) Hart, Herbert L. A. (1907–92) Hartmann, Karl-Robert-Eduard von (1842–1906) Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950) Hazlitt, William (1778–1830) Hedonism Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831) Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976) Heraclitus Hermeneutics Hesiod Hilbert, David (1862–1943) Historical Materialism Historicism History of Philosophy Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679) Hocking, William Ernest (1873–1966) Holbach, Baron d' (1723–89) Holism Hook, Sidney (1902–89) Horkheimer, Max (1895–1973) Humanism Hume, David (1711–76) Husserl, Edmund (1859–1938) Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1747) Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) I Iamblichus Idealism Ideas Identity Ideology Induction Intentionality J James, William (1842–1910) Jaspers, Karl (1883–1969) Jevons, William Stanley (1835–82) John of Paris (c.1269–1306) Jonas, Hans (1903–93) Jurisprudence K Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804) Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813–55) Knowledge Kojève, Alexandre (1900–68) Kripke, Saul (1940– ) Kuhn, Thomas S. (1922–96) L Lacan, Jacques (1901–81) Lakatos, Imré (1922–74) Language Law Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716) Lenin,Ulyanov V.I.(1870–1924) Leucippus Levinas, Emmanuel (1906–95) Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908– ) Lewis, Clarence I. (1883–1964) Lewis, David (1941–2001) Liberalism and Communitarianism Libertarianism ‘Linguistic Turn’ Locke, John (1632–1704) Logic Logical Atomism Logical Positivism Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (98–55 BC) Lukács, Georg (1885–1971) Lyotard, Jean-François (1924–98) M McDowell, John (1942– ) Mach, Ernst (1838–1916) Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527) MacIntyre, Alasdair (1929– ) Mackie, John L. (1917–81) McTaggart, John Ellis (1866–1925) Maimonides (1135–1204) Malebranche, Nicolas (1638–1715) Manicheism Marcel, Gabriel (1889–1973) Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979) Maritain, Jacques (1882–1973) Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818–83) Material mode Materialism Mathematics Medieval Philosophy Meinong, Alexius (1853–1920) Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1907–61) Metaphilosophy Metaphor Metaphysics Mill, James (1773–1836) Mill, John Stuart (1806–73) Mind Miracles Mises, Richard von (1883–1953) Modernism Modernity Monads Monism Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92) Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755) Moore, George Edward (1873–1958) More, Henry (1614–87) More, Thomas (1477–1535) Morris, Charles (1901–79) N Nagel, Ernest (1901–85) Nagel, Thomas (1937– ) Natural Law Naturalism Negative Theology Neoplatonism Neo-Thomism Neurath, Otto (1882–1945) Newton, Isaac (1642–1727) Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900) Nominalism Nozick, Robert (1938–2002) O Occasionalism Ockham Ontological Argument Ontology P Pantheism Parmenides Pascal, Blaise (1623–62) Peano, Giuseppe (1858–1932) Pearson, Karl (1857–36) Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839–1914) Peripatetic Personal Identity Peter Lombard (c.1095–c.1160) Peter of Spain Phenomenalism Phenomenology Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science Physicalism Plato (c.427–347 BC) Plotinus (205–70) Political Economy Political Philosophy Popper, Karl R. (1902–94) Porphyry (c.232–c.305) Positivism Postmodernism Post-structuralism Pragmatism Predestination Prescriptivism Pre-Socratics Price, Henry Habberley (1899–1984) Price, Richard (1723–91) Prichard, Harold Arthur (1871–1947) Probability Proclus Protagoras Psychoanalysis Putnam, Hilary (1926– ) Pyrrho of Elis (c.360–c.270 BC) Pythagoras Pythagoreans Q Qualities Quantum Mechanics Quine, Willard V. O. (1908–2000) Quinton, Anthony (1925– ) R Ramsey, Frank P. (1903–30) Rationalism Rawls, John (1921–2002) Realism Reductio ad absurdum Reid, Thomas (1710–96) Reification Relativism Relativity Religion Ricoeur, Paul (1913– ) Rights Rorty, Richard (1931– ) Ross,W.David (1877–1971) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78) Royce, Josiah (1855–1916) Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970) Ryle, Gilbert (1900–76) S Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de (1760–1825) Santayana, George (1863–1952) Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80) Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857–1913) Scepticism Sceptics Schelling, Friedrich W. J. (1775–1854) Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott (1864–1937) Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805) Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768–1834) Schlick, Friedrich Albert Moritz (1882–1936) Scholasticism Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860) Scotus, John Duns (c.1266–1308) Searle, John (1932– ) Sellars, Wilfrid (1912–89) Semiology Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.5 BC–AD 65) Sense-data Sextus Empiricus Shaftesbury, Earl of (1671–1713) Sidgwick, Henry (1828–1900) Siger of Brabant (c.1235–81) Singer, Peter (1946– ) Smith, Adam (1723–90) Social Contract Socrates (469–399 BC) Solipsism Sophists Speech Acts Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) Speusippus Spinoza, Benedict de (1632–77) Stevenson, Charles Leslie (1908–79) Stewart, Dugald (1753–1828) Stoicism Strawson, Peter Frederick (1919– ) Structuralism Subjectivism Substance Syllogism Synthetic T Tarski, Alfred (1902–83) Taylor, Alfred Edward (1869–1945) Taylor, Charles (1931– ) Teleological Argument Thales of Miletus Theism Theophrastus (c.370–c.286 BC) Thomism Thomas of Sutton Toulmin, Stephen Edelston (1922– ) Transcendent Transcendental Arguments Translation Truth Turing, Alan (1912–54) U Universals Urmson, James O. (1915– ) Utilitarianism V Vaihinger, Hans (1852–1933) Vegetarianism Venn, John (1834–1923) Verification Principle Vienna Circle Vitoria, Francisco de (c.1490–1546) Virtue Ethics Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de (1694–1778) W Ward, James (1843–1925) Weil, Simone (1909–43) Whewell, William (1794–1866) Whitehead,Alfred North (1861– 1947) William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) Williams, Bernard A. O. (1929–2003) Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915) Wisdom, (Arthur) John Terence Dibben (1904–93) Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951) Wolff, Christian (1679–1750) X Xenophanes Z Zeno of Citium (c.333–262 BC) Zeno of Elea

Summary: On its first appearance in 1960, the Concise Encyclopediaof Western Philosophy established itself as a classic; this third edition builds on its original strengths but brings it completely up to date. The Concise Encyclopedia offers a lively, readable, comprehensive and authoritative treatment of Western philosophy as a whole, incorporating scintillating articles by many leading philosophical authors. It serves not only as a convenient reference work, but also as an engaging introduction to philosophy.

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Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction to the second edition
Introduction to the third edition
A
Abelard, Peter (c.1079–1142)
Academy
Adorno, Theodor W. (1903–69)
Aenesidemus
Aesthetics
‘African Philosophy’
Albert the Great (1206–80)
Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717–83)
Alexander, Samuel (1859–1938)
Alienation
Althusser, Louis (1918–90)
American Philosophy
Analysis
Analytic
Analytic Philosophy
Analytical Marxism
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Anderson, John (1893–1962)
Animals
Anscombe, G. E. M. (1919–2001)
Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
Antisthenes (c.444 to c.366 BC)
A posteriori
Applied Ethics
A priori
Aquinas,Thomas (c.1225–74)
Arcesilaus of Pitane
Arendt, Hannah (1906–75)
Aristippus of Cyrene (c.435–356 BC)
Aristotle (384–322 BC)
Arnauld, Antoine (1612–94)
Atomism
Augustine (354–430)
Aurelius
Austin, John Langshaw (1911–60)
Averroes (1126–98)
Avicenna (980–1037)
Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules (1910–89)
B
Bachelard, Gaston (1884–1962)
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)
Bacon, Roger (c.1214–c. 1292)
Barth, Karl (1886–1968)
Barthes, Roland (1915–80)
Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)
Beauty
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908–86)
Behaviourism
Being
Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940)
Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)
Berdyaev, Nicholas (1874–1948)
Bergmann, Gustav (1906–87)
Bergson, Henri Louis (1859–1941)
Berkeley,George (1685–1753)
Berlin, Isaiah (1909–97)
Bioethics
Black, Max (1909–88)
Blanshard, Brand (1892–1987)
Bloch, Ernst (1885–1977)
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c.480–c.524)
Bonaventura (1221–74)
Boole, George (1815–64)
Bosanquet, Bernard (1848–1923)
Boyle, Robert (1627–91)
Bradley, Francis Herbert (1846–1924)
Braithwaite, Richard Bevan (1900–88)
Brandom, Robert (1950– )
Brentano, Franz (1838–1916)
Broad, Charlie Dunbar (1887–1971)
Buber, Martin (1878–1965)
Burke, Edmund (1729–97)
Butler, Joseph (1692–1752)
C
Cajetan, Thomas de Vio (1468–1534)
Cambridge Platonists
Canguilhem, Georges (1904–95)
Cantor, Georg (1845–1918)
Carnap, Rudolf (1891–1970)
Carneades (c.213–c.129 BC)
Cartesianism
Cassirer, Ernst (1874–1945)
Categorical Imperative
Categories
Cavell, Stanley (1926– )
Chomsky, Noam (1928– )
Chrysippus (c.280–207 BC)
Church, Alonzo (1903–95)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BC)
Clarke, Samuel (1675–1729)
‘Cogito ergo sum’
Cohen, Morris R. (1880–1947)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834)
Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943)
Communitarianism
Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier (1796–1857)
Conceptualism
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715–80)
Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743–94)
Continental Philosophy
Contract, Social
Cook Wilson
Cosmogony
Cosmological Argument
Cratylus
Critical Philosophy
Critical Theory
Croce, Benedetto (1866–1952)
Cudworth, Ralph (1617–88)
Cynicism
Cyrenaics
D
Damascius
Danto, Arthur C. (1924– )
Darwin, Charles (1809–82)
Davidson, Donald (1917–2003)
de Beauvoir, Simone
Deconstruction
Deduction
Deism
Deleuze, Gilles (1925–95)
Democritus
Dennett, Daniel (1942– )
Deontology
Derrida, Jacques (1930– )
Descartes, René (1596–1650)
Determinism
Dewey, John (1859–1952)
Dialectic
Dialectical Materialism
Diderot, Denis (1713–84)
Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833–1911)
Diogenes of Apollonia
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes Laertius
Dogmatism
Dualism
Duhem, Pierre (1861–1916)
Dummett, Michael (1925– )
E
Edwards, Jonathan (1703–58)
Eleatics
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82)
Emotivism
Empedocles
Empiricism
Encyclopedists
Engels, Friedrich (1820–95)
Epictetus (c.55–c.135 AD)
Epicurus (342–270 BC)
Epistemology
Erigena, John Scotus (c.810–c.877)
Ethics
Evil
Existentialism
F
Fallacy
Fatalism
Feminism
Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas (1804–72)
Feyerabend, Paul (1924–94)
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814)
Fodor, Jerry (1935– )
Foot, Philippa (1920–)
Foucault, Michel (1926–84)
Frankfurt School
Freedom of the Will
Frege, Gottlob (1848–1929)
Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
Functionalism
G
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900–2002)
Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655)
Gender
Gentile, Giovanni (1875–1944)
Geulincz, Arnold (1624–1669)
Gilson, Etienne Henri (1884–1978)
Glanvill, Joseph (1636–1680)
Gödel, Kurt (1906–78)
Goodman, Nelson (1906–98)
Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937)
Green, Thomas Hill (1836–82)
H
Habermas, Jürgen (1929– )
Hackenschmidt, George (1878–1968)
Hacking, Ian (1936– )
Hamilton, Sir William (1788–1856)
Hampshire, Stuart (1914–2004)
Hare, Richard Mervyn (1919–2002)
Hart, Herbert L. A. (1907–92)
Hartmann, Karl-Robert-Eduard von (1842–1906)
Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950)
Hazlitt, William (1778–1830)
Hedonism
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)
Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976)
Heraclitus
Hermeneutics
Hesiod
Hilbert, David (1862–1943)
Historical Materialism
Historicism
History of Philosophy
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
Hocking, William Ernest (1873–1966)
Holbach, Baron d' (1723–89)
Holism
Hook, Sidney (1902–89)
Horkheimer, Max (1895–1973)
Humanism
Hume, David (1711–76)
Husserl, Edmund (1859–1938)
Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1747)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95)
I
Iamblichus
Idealism
Ideas
Identity
Ideology
Induction
Intentionality
J
James, William (1842–1910)
Jaspers, Karl (1883–1969)
Jevons, William Stanley (1835–82)
John of Paris (c.1269–1306)
Jonas, Hans (1903–93)
Jurisprudence
K
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813–55)
Knowledge
Kojève, Alexandre (1900–68)
Kripke, Saul (1940– )
Kuhn, Thomas S. (1922–96)
L
Lacan, Jacques (1901–81)
Lakatos, Imré (1922–74)
Language
Law
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716)
Lenin,Ulyanov V.I.(1870–1924)
Leucippus
Levinas, Emmanuel (1906–95)
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908– )
Lewis, Clarence I. (1883–1964)
Lewis, David (1941–2001)
Liberalism and Communitarianism
Libertarianism
‘Linguistic Turn’
Locke, John (1632–1704)
Logic
Logical Atomism
Logical Positivism
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (98–55 BC)
Lukács, Georg (1885–1971)
Lyotard, Jean-François (1924–98)
M
McDowell, John (1942– )
Mach, Ernst (1838–1916)
Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527)
MacIntyre, Alasdair (1929– )
Mackie, John L. (1917–81)
McTaggart, John Ellis (1866–1925)
Maimonides (1135–1204)
Malebranche, Nicolas (1638–1715)
Manicheism
Marcel, Gabriel (1889–1973)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)
Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
Maritain, Jacques (1882–1973)
Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818–83)
Material mode
Materialism
Mathematics
Medieval Philosophy
Meinong, Alexius (1853–1920)
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1907–61)
Metaphilosophy
Metaphor
Metaphysics
Mill, James (1773–1836)
Mill, John Stuart (1806–73)
Mind
Miracles
Mises, Richard von (1883–1953)
Modernism
Modernity
Monads
Monism
Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92)
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755)
Moore, George Edward (1873–1958)
More, Henry (1614–87)
More, Thomas (1477–1535)
Morris, Charles (1901–79)
N
Nagel, Ernest (1901–85)
Nagel, Thomas (1937– )
Natural Law
Naturalism
Negative Theology
Neoplatonism
Neo-Thomism
Neurath, Otto (1882–1945)
Newton, Isaac (1642–1727)
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)
Nominalism
Nozick, Robert (1938–2002)
O
Occasionalism
Ockham
Ontological Argument
Ontology
P
Pantheism
Parmenides
Pascal, Blaise (1623–62)
Peano, Giuseppe (1858–1932)
Pearson, Karl (1857–36)
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839–1914)
Peripatetic
Personal Identity
Peter Lombard (c.1095–c.1160)
Peter of Spain
Phenomenalism
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Physicalism
Plato (c.427–347 BC)
Plotinus (205–70)
Political Economy
Political Philosophy
Popper, Karl R. (1902–94)
Porphyry (c.232–c.305)
Positivism
Postmodernism
Post-structuralism
Pragmatism
Predestination
Prescriptivism
Pre-Socratics
Price, Henry Habberley (1899–1984)
Price, Richard (1723–91)
Prichard, Harold Arthur (1871–1947)
Probability
Proclus
Protagoras
Psychoanalysis
Putnam, Hilary (1926– )
Pyrrho of Elis (c.360–c.270 BC)
Pythagoras
Pythagoreans
Q
Qualities
Quantum Mechanics
Quine, Willard V. O. (1908–2000)
Quinton, Anthony (1925– )
R
Ramsey, Frank P. (1903–30)
Rationalism
Rawls, John (1921–2002)
Realism
Reductio ad absurdum
Reid, Thomas (1710–96)
Reification
Relativism
Relativity
Religion
Ricoeur, Paul (1913– )
Rights
Rorty, Richard (1931– )
Ross,W.David (1877–1971)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78)
Royce, Josiah (1855–1916)
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970)
Ryle, Gilbert (1900–76)
S
Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de (1760–1825)
Santayana, George (1863–1952)
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80)
Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857–1913)
Scepticism
Sceptics
Schelling, Friedrich W. J. (1775–1854)
Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott (1864–1937)
Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805)
Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768–1834)
Schlick, Friedrich Albert Moritz (1882–1936)
Scholasticism
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860)
Scotus, John Duns (c.1266–1308)
Searle, John (1932– )
Sellars, Wilfrid (1912–89)
Semiology
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.5 BC–AD 65)
Sense-data
Sextus Empiricus
Shaftesbury, Earl of (1671–1713)
Sidgwick, Henry (1828–1900)
Siger of Brabant (c.1235–81)
Singer, Peter (1946– )
Smith, Adam (1723–90)
Social Contract
Socrates (469–399 BC)
Solipsism
Sophists
Speech Acts
Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903)
Speusippus
Spinoza, Benedict de (1632–77)
Stevenson, Charles Leslie (1908–79)
Stewart, Dugald (1753–1828)
Stoicism
Strawson, Peter Frederick (1919– )
Structuralism
Subjectivism
Substance
Syllogism
Synthetic
T
Tarski, Alfred (1902–83)
Taylor, Alfred Edward (1869–1945)
Taylor, Charles (1931– )
Teleological Argument
Thales of Miletus
Theism
Theophrastus (c.370–c.286 BC)
Thomism
Thomas of Sutton
Toulmin, Stephen Edelston (1922– )
Transcendent
Transcendental Arguments
Translation
Truth
Turing, Alan (1912–54)
U
Universals
Urmson, James O. (1915– )
Utilitarianism
V
Vaihinger, Hans (1852–1933)
Vegetarianism
Venn, John (1834–1923)
Verification Principle
Vienna Circle
Vitoria, Francisco de (c.1490–1546)
Virtue Ethics
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de (1694–1778)
W
Ward, James (1843–1925)
Weil, Simone (1909–43)
Whewell, William (1794–1866)
Whitehead,Alfred North (1861– 1947)
William of Ockham (c.1285–1347)
Williams, Bernard A. O. (1929–2003)
Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915)
Wisdom, (Arthur) John Terence Dibben (1904–93)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951)
Wolff, Christian (1679–1750)
X
Xenophanes
Z
Zeno of Citium (c.333–262 BC)
Zeno of Elea

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