Philosophy: The Great Thinkers

by Philip Stokes

Overview

'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'
- Aristotle

This illustrated guide showcases the major philosophers of the western tradition. Concise and informative, it provides an ideal introduction to their lives, ideas and the effect those ideas have had on the wider world.

Both easy-to-use and a stimulating read, this book is an ideal reference for anybody interested in philosophy, and especially for those who want a clear, entertaining exposition of the ideas that shape the way we think.

Key features:
• A-Z format, covering the ideas of many of history's most influential thinkers, from Aristotle and Cicero to controversial contemporary philosophers such as Peter Singer and Jacques Derrida
• At-a-glance summaries of the major works of each philosopher featured
• Fully illustrated

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788884464
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	02/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Philip Stokes has a Masters degree in Philosophy from Bristol University. After several years in academic publishing, Philip returned to academia proper and now teaches at Chulalongkom University in Thailand, where he is a member of the Language Faculty.

Philip Stokes graduated with a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Reading in 1993, and gained his Masters degree from Bristol University in 1995. His Masters dissertation was a critique of Quine from a Wittgensteinian perspective. After working for several years in academic publishing, Philip returned to academia proper, beginning his PhD at the University of Reading, where he was Course tutor within the Department of Continuing Education at Reading. In 2005 he took up a post at Chulalongkom University in Thailand, where he is a member of the Language Faculty.

Table of Contents

Introduction     6
Anselm, St     8
Aquinas, St Thomas     11
Aristotle     13
Arnauld, Antoine     16
Augustine, St     18
Aurelius, Marcus     21
Austin, John Langshaw     23
Avicenna     25
Ayer, Alfred Jules     28
Bacon, Francis     30
Beauvoir, Simone de     33
Bentham, Jeremy     36
Bergson, Henri Louis     38
Berkeley, George     41
Boethius     43
Camus, Albert     46
Carnap, Rudolph     49
Chomsky, Noam     51
Cicero, Marcus Tullius     54
Comte, Auguste     57
Copernicus, Nicolaus     59
Darwin, Charles Robert     62
Democritus     65
Dennett, Daniel     67
Derrida, Jacques     70
Descartes, Rene     73
Dewey, John     76
Diderot, Denis     78
Diogenes of Sinope     81
Duns Scotus, John     84
Durkheim, Emile     86
Einstein, Albert     89
Empiricus, Sextus     92
Engels, Friedrich     94
Epicurus     97
Erasmus, Desiderius     99
Feyerabend, Paul     102
Foucault, Michel     104
Frege, Gottlob     107
Freud, Sigmund     109
Galilei, Galileo     112
Godel, Kurt     115
Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich     118
Heidegger, Martin     121
Heraclitus     124
Hobbes, Thomas     126
Hume, David     129
Husserl, Edmund     132
James, William     134
Jung, Carl Gustav     137
Kant, Immanuel     140
Keynes, John Maynard     142
Kierkegaard, Soren     144
Kripke, Saul     147
Kuhn, Thomas     150
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von     153
Lenin, Vladimir Illych     150
Levi-Strauss, Claude     159
Locke, John     162
Mach, Ernst     165
Machiavelli, Niccolo     167
Malebranche, Nicolas     169
Marx, Karl     171
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice     174
Mill, John Stuart      177
Montaigne, Michel de     179
Moore, George Edward     182
More, Sir Thomas     185
Newton, Isaac     187
Nietzsche, Friedrich     190
Nozick, Robert     193
Paine, Thomas     196
Parmenides of Elea     198
Pascal, Blaise     200
Peirce, Charles Sanders     202
Philo of Alexandria     204
Plato     206
Plotinus     209
Popper, Karl     211
Pythagoras of Samos     214
Quine, Willard van Orman     217
Rawls, John     220
Reid, Thomas     223
Rorty, Richard     225
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques     228
Russell, Bertrand     231
Ryle, Gilbert     233
Sartre, Jean-Paul     235
Saussure, Ferdinand de     237
Schelling, Frederick Wilhelm     240
SchiIler, Johann Christoph     242
Schlick, Moritz     245
Schopenhauer, Arthur     247
Searle, John     250
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus     253
Sidgwick, Henry     256
Singer, Peter      259
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic     262
Smith, Adam     265
Socrates     267
Spinoza, Benedict de     269
Tarski, Alfred     272
Thales of Miletus     274
Turing, Alan     276
Voltaire     279
Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich     282
Whitehead, Alfred North     284
William of Occam     287
Wittgenstein, Ludwig     289
Wollstonecraft, Mary     292
Xenophanes of Colophon     294
Zeno of Elea     296
Glossary     298