Edited by Ted Honderich
2,000 entries
An assembly of 249 distinguished philosophers have contributed to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy to create the most authoritative and engaging philosophical reference work in English. It gives clear and reliable guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-language philosophy: it surveys the foremost philosophy from all parts of the world. The book covers philosophical topics from animal souls, arthritis in the thigh, and brain in a vat to Zoroastrianism and vague objects. There are more than fifty extended entries of 3,000 words on the main areas of philosophy and the great philosophers.
"...the only reference work on the subject that communicates the sheer oddball fun of hard thinking" - Steven Poole, The Guardian
Ted Honderich is Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He was born in Canada and educated in Toronto and London. His major work is A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience, and Life Hopes (Clarendon Press, 1988). He address the same subject for a more general readership in How Free Are You? (1993). He is also known for his writings on political philosophy, and for the widely successful philosophy readers which he has edited.
ISBN: 0198661320
Print edition publication date: 1995
Sample entry: The meaning of life
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