Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Preface to the First Edition x

Notes on Contributors xii

Contemporary Philosophy in the United States John R. Searle 1

Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look – Bernard Williams 23

Part I Areas of Philosophy 35

1 Epistemology – A. C. Grayling 37

2 Metaphysics – Simon Blackburn, with a section on Time by Robin Le Poidevin 61

3 Philosophy of Language – Martin Davies 90

4 Philosophy of Logic – A. W Moore 147

5 Philosophy of Mind – William G. Lycan 173

6 Ethics – John Skorupski 202

7 Aesthetics – Sebastian Gardner 231

8 Political and Social Philosophy··David Archard 257

9 Philosophy of Science – David Papineau 286

10 Philosophy of Biology – Elliott Sober 317

11 Philosophy of Mathematics – Mary Tiles 345

12 Philosophy of Social Science – Martin Hollis 375

13 Philosophy of Law N. E. Simmonds 403

14 Philosophy of History·Leon Pompa 428

15 Philosophy of Religion – Charles Taliaferro 453

16 Applied Ethics – John Haldane 490

17 Bioethics, Genethics and Medical Ethics ... Rebecca Bennett. Charles A. Erin. John Harris and Søren Holm 499

18 Environmental Ethics – Holmes Rolston, III 517

19 Business Ethics – Georges Enderle 531

20 Philosophy and Feminism – Jean Grimshaw and Miranda Fricker 552

21 Ethnicity, Culture, and Philosophy – Robert Bernasconi 567

Part II History of Philosophy 583

22 Ancient Greek Philosophy Robert Wardy 585

23 Plato and Aristotle – Lesley Brown 601

24 Medieval Philosophy – Jorge J. E. Gracia 619

25 Bacon – Stephen Gaukroger 634

26 Descartes and Malebranche – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 644

27 Spinoza and Leibniz – Richard Francks and George Macdonald Ross 658

28 Hobbes Tom Sorell 671

29 Locke – R. S. Woolhouse 682

30 Berkeley – Howard Robinson 694

31 Hume··Peter Jones 709

32 Kant – David Bell 725

33 Hegel – Michael Inwood 741

34 Marx – Richard Norman 750

35 Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick – Ross Harrison 759

36 Pragmatism··Susan Haack 774

37 Prege and Russell – R. M. Sainsbury 790

38 Moore Thomas Baldwin 805

39 Wittgenstein - David Pears 811

40 Nietzsche – David E. Cooper 827

41 Husserl and Heidegger – Taylor Carman 842

42 Sartre. Foucault and Derrida·Gary Gutting 860

Glossary 875

Appendix 893

Index 905

About the Author

Nicholas Bunnin studied at Harvard University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is Director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford.

Eric Tsui-James lectured in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, Oxford before becoming Associated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong

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