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The Handy Philosophy Answer Book.
Title:
The Handy Philosophy Answer Book.
Author:
Zack, Naomi.
ISBN:
9781578592852
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (505 pages)
Series:
The Handy Answer Book Series
Contents:
Cover -- About the Author -- Also from Visible Ink Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- The Basics -- Ancient Philosophy -- Greek Pre-Socratics -- The Sophists -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy -- Women Philosophers in Ancient Greece and Rome -- Neoplatonism Through the Renaissance -- Neoplatonism -- Medieval Philosophy -- The Scholastics -- Islam's Influence -- Maimonides -- Thomas Aquinas -- Other Important Medieval Philosophers -- Renaissance Humanism -- Skeptical and Natural Philosophy -- Michel de Montaigne -- The Scientific Revolution -- Johannes Kepler's Influence -- Francis Bacon and the Scientific Revolution -- Medicine and Philosophy -- Early Modern Philosophy -- Seventeenth Century Rationalism -- Francisco Suárez -- René Descartes -- Benedict de Spinoza -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Seventeenth Century Empiricism -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- The Cambridge Platonists -- Gender and Early Modern Women Philosophers -- The Enlightenment Period -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Thomas Reid and Jeremy Bentham -- Immanuel Kant -- Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin -- The Philosophes -- Counter-Enlightenment Figures -- Nineteenth Century Philosophy -- Nineteenth Century Empiricism -- William Whewell -- John Stuart Mill -- August Comte -- Intuitionism -- Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic -- German Idealism -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -- Friedrich Schelling -- Friedrich Hegel -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Bernard Bosanquet -- Materialism, Marxism, and Anarchists -- Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach -- Marxism -- Anarchism -- Psychology and Social Theory -- Franz Brentano -- Alexius Meinong -- Sigmund Freud -- Herbert Spencer -- Sociology and Philosophy -- Continental Philosophy -- Existentialism.

Søren Kierkegaard -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Other Existentialists -- Phenomenology -- Edmund Husserl -- Martin Heidegger -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Critical Theory and Structuralism -- Critical Theorists -- Structuralists -- American Philosophy -- Early American Philosophical Strains -- St. Louis Hegelians -- New England Transcendentalists -- Social Darwinism -- Pragmatism and Process Philosophy -- Charles Sanders Peirce -- William James -- Josiah Royce -- John Dewey -- Jane Addams -- George Herbert Mead -- Ralph Barton Perry -- C.I. Lewis -- Process Philosophy -- Analytic Philosophy -- Early Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy -- G.E. Moore -- Truth-Functional Logic and Logical Atomism -- Bertrand Russell -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Other Logicians -- Logical Positivism -- The Vienna Circle -- Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Analytic Ethics -- Analytic Political Philosophy -- Epistemology and Metaphysics after Logical Positivism -- W.V.O. Quine -- Hilary Putnam -- Philosophy of Science -- Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language -- Noam Chomsky -- Jerry Fodor -- New Philosophy -- Postmodern Philosophy -- Jacques Derrida and Deconstructionism -- Richard Rorty -- Jürgen Habermas -- More French Postmodernist Philosophers -- Other American Philosophies -- African American Philosophy -- Native American Philosophy -- Latin American Philosophy -- Other Continental Traditions -- Afro-Centrism and African Philosophy -- Buddhism and Confucianism -- Feminist Philosophy -- Environmental Philosophy -- Other Trends in New Philosophy -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Combining a basic history of philosophical thought with the often quirky personal stories of famous philosophers, this comprehensive introduction to the world of philosophy answers more than 1,000 questions, ranging from What was the Enlightenment? to Why did the Pythagorians avoid fava beans? Analyzing the collective effort of philosophers throughout history in the pursuit of truth and wisdom, the guide explores the tangible significance of philosophical thought to modern society and civilization as a whole. With a wide range of information suitable for various knowledge bases—from junior high to junior college—this is an ideal resource for anyone looking to get a better grasp of the history of thought.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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