內容簡介
內容簡介 Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the mostcomprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophicaltradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all thegreats of philosophy, arranged thematically andchronologicallyReadings are introduced and linked together by a lucidphilosophical commentary which guides the reader through the keyargumentsEmbraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory ofknowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion andscience, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), politicaltheory, and aestheticsUpdated edition now includes additional contemporary readingsin each sectionAugmented by two completely new sections on logic and language,and philosophy and the meaning of life
作者介紹
作者介紹 John Cottingham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of many books including Rationalism (1984), Descartes (1986), The Rationalists (1988), Philosophy and the Good Life (1998), and On the Meaning of Life (2003), and is co-translator of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. He was from 1991–5 Chairman of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and is (since 1993) editor of Ratio, the international journal of analytic philosophy.