Table of Contents

Ted Honderich: Introduction
1: C. C. W. Taylor: Socrates
2: David Bostock: Plato
3: David Charles: Aristotle
4: C. A. Kirwan: Augustine
5: Alexander Broadie: Aquinas
6: Bernard Gert: Hobbes
7: John Cottingham: Descartes
8: T. L. S. Sprigge: Spinoza
9: Roger Woolhouse: Locke
10: R. C. Sleigh: Leibniz
11: Geoffrey Warnock: Berkeley
12: Justin Broackes: Hume
13: Henry E. Allison: Kant
14: T. L. S. Sprigge: Schopenhauer
15: Peter Singer: Hegel
16: Ross Harrison: Bentham
17: Alastair Hannay: Kierkegaard
18: Allen Wood: Marx
19: John Skorupski: Mill
20: Richard Schacht: Nietzsche
21: Christopher Hookway: Peirce
22: T. L. S. Sprigge: James
23: Anthony Kenny: Frege
24: Michael Inwood: Husserl
25: Mark Sainsbury: Russell
26: Peter Hacker: Wittgenstein
27: Michael Inwood: Heidegger
28: Thomas Baldwin: Sartre
Guide to Further Reading
A. R. Lacey: Chronological Table
Index

About the Author

Ted Honderich is Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London.

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