Western Philosophy: An Anthology

by John Cottingham (Editor)

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Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today. Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the greats of philosophy, arranged thematically and chronologically Readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: show more theory of knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political theory, and aesthetics Updated edition now includes additional contemporary readings in each section Augmented by two completely new sections on logic and language, and philosophy and the meaning of life show less

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John Cottingham
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John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University, and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. His books include How to Believe and On the Meaning of Life.

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Meno by Plato
The Republic of Plato by Plato
New Essays on Human Understanding by G. W. Leibniz
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes
Sistema nuevo de la naturaleza y de la comunicación de las sustancias, así como también de la unión entre el alma y el cuerpo by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics / Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Summa logicae by William of Ockham
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Logica e conversazione: saggi su intenzione, significato e comunicazione by Paul Grice
Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke
Phaedo by Plato
On the Soul by Aristotle
Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas
Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion by Nicolas Malebranche
The world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy by John Stuart Mill
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint by Franz Brentano
The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
What is it like to be a bat? by Thomas Nagel
The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To Which Are Added Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity, II. On the Nature of Virtue by Introduction and notes by Archer , W. G.
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
The Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Volume 5. The questions concerning liberty, necessity, and chance by Thomas Hobbes
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities by Pierre-Simon Laplace
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility / Alternative Möglichkeiten und moralische Verantwortung: Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie] (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) by Harry G. Frankfurt
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard
Physics by Aristotle
A System of Logic by John Stuart Mill
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics) by Henry Sidgwick
A System of Logic by John Stuart Mill
The Right and the Good by W. D. Ross
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
On Suicide by David Hume
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness by William Godwin
Lectures on Ethics by Immanuel Kant
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson
Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer
The Wisdom of Repugnance by Jeni Decker
Crito by Plato
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Of the Original Contract by David Hume
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Die deutsche Ideologie by Harald Bluhm
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Poetics by Aristotle
Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor) by F Hutcheson
Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays by David Hume
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
What is art? by Leo Tolstoy
The Psychology of Imagination by Jean-Paul Sartre
Lectures & conversations on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
THE ABSURDITY OF LIFE WITHOUT GOD (The Christian Apologetics Program) by Ph. D. William Lane Craig

Common Knowledge

Canonical title
Western Philosophy: An Anthology
Original title
A Defence of Common Sense (G. E. Moore) (G. E. Moore); The Myth of the Given (Wilfrid Sellars) (Wilfrid Sellars); The Puzzle of Reality (Derek Parfitt) (Derek Parfitt); The Elimination of Metaphysics (Rudolf Carnap) (Rudolf Carnap); Über Sinn und Bedeutung (Gottleib Frege) (Gottleib Frege); Performative Utterances (J. L. Austin) (J. L. Austin) (show all 29); Psychological Predicates (Hilary Putnam) (Hilary Putnam); Freedom and Resentment (P. F. Strawson) (P. F. Strawson); Gods (John Wisdom) (John Wisdom); Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief (Robert M. Adams) (Robert M. Adams); Is Belief in God Properly Basic? (Alvin Plantinga) (Alvin Plantinga); De ciuitate Dei contra paganos (Augustine) (Augustine); Novum Organum, sive indicia vera de Interpretationes Naturae (Francis Bacon) (Francis Bacon); On Motion (George Berkley) (George Berkley); Explanation in Science and History (Carl G. Hempel) (Carl G. Hempel); The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities (Grover Maxwell) (Grover Maxwell); Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft (Friedrich Nietzsche) (Friedrich Nietzsche); On Princely Government (Thomas Aquinas) (Thomas Aquinas); Why Contractarianism? (David Gauthier) (David Gauthier); Principles of Morals and Legislation (Jeremy Bentham) (Jeremy Bentham); The Land Ethic (Aldo Leopold) (Aldo Leopold); Active and Passive Euthanasia (James Rachels) (James Rachels); Aesthetic Concepts (Frank Sibley) (Frank Sibley); The Languages of Art (Nelson Goodman) (Nelson Goodman); On Experience (Michel de Montaigne) (Michel de Montaigne); On the Vanity of Existence (Arthur Schopenhauer) (Arthur Schopenhauer); Why Liberals Should Care about Equality (Ronald Dworkin) (Ronald Dworkin); A Free Man's Worship (Bertrand Russell) (Bertrand Russell); Philosophy's Life (Robert Nozick) (Robert Nozick)
Original publication date
1996

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Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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190 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Modern western and other noneastern philosophy
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BD21 .W43 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Speculative philosophy Speculative philosophy General philosophical works
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