Christopher Belshaw, Gary Kemp

Broschiertes Buch

12 Modern Philosophers

Beschreibung

Featuring essays from leading philosophical scholars,
12Modern Philosophers explores the works, origins, andinfluences of twelve of the most important late 20th Centuryphilosophers working in the analytic tradition.
Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including ThomasBaldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen
Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of thediscipline as a whole
Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, andcontributes to, the broader intellectual and cultural milieu

Autor

Christopher Belshaw is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Staff Tutor with the Open University. He works mainly at the theoretical end of applied ethics. He is the author of Ideas (1998), Environmental Philosophy (2001), and 10 Good Questions About Life and Death (Blackwell, 2005). Another book, Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death, is forthcoming (2009).   Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Glasgow. He works in the philosophy of logic and language, on Frege, Russell, Quine, and Davidson, and on aesthetics and philosophical themes in literature. He is the author of Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed (2005) and, with Tracy Bowell, of Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide (3rd edn. 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781405152624
• ISBN-10: 1405152621
• Artikelnr.: 25645819

Rezensionen

"This book was a superb idea and has been superbly done." Brad Hooker, University of Reading

"This engaging collection of incisive and lucid essays on twelve major contemporary contributors to the subject elegantly delivers a synoptic view that, in making this work readily comprehensible to the non-specialist without a hint of oversimplification, shows philosophy for what it is at its best: enlivening, stimulating, exacting, and - true to the promise of its Socratic origins - ever capable of provocatively unsettling the otherwise unexamined presumptions that would blind us to life's absorbing complexities. Informative, illuminating reading." Garry L. Hagberg, University of East Anglia