The Columbia History of Western Philosophy by Popkin, Richard H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction List of Contributors 1. Origins of Western Philosophic Thinking

Introduction The Pre-Socratic Philosophers The Sophists Socrates and the Socratics Plato Aristotle Brief Summary of Aristotle’s Writings Hellenistic Philosophy Middle Platonism Gnosticism Plotinus and Neoplatonism Early Jewish and Christian Uses of Philosophy The Greek Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy The Latin Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy

2. Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy

Introduction Sacadyā Gaon Jewish and Early Muslim Neoplatonism Abū Nasr Muhammed Al-Farā Bī Avicenna Al-Ghazālī Philosophical Mysticism in Islamic Thought Introduction Solomon ibn Gabirol Judah Halevi Averroës Moses Maimonides Jewish Averroism Gersonides Hasdai Crescas, Joseph Albo, and Isaac Abrabanel Moses de Leon and the Zohar Isaac Luria and the Lurianic Kabbalah Abraham Cohen Herrera Conclusion

3. Medieval Christian Philosophy

Early Period Translation and Transmission of Greek Philosophy Bonaventure Thomas Aquinas Latin Averroism Scotus and Scotism Late Scholasticism Realism Versus Nominalism

4. The Renaissance

Between Ockham and Descartes Aristotelianisms Humanism Platonism Doubt and Innovation

5. Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

The Sceptical Crisis René Descartes Seventeenth-Century Philosophy After Descartes Thomas Hobbes Blaise Pascal The Philosophy of the Royal Society of England The Kabbala denudata The Cambridge Platonists Baruch de Spinoza John Locke Nicolas Malebranche Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pierre Bayle and Bishop Huet, the Master Sceptics Europe and Non-European Cultures China and Western Philosophy in the Age of Reason

6. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Introduction Isaac Newton The Newton-Leibniz Controversy Deism George Berkeley Immaterialism in the American Colonies: Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Edwards David Hume The French Enlightenment Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff Moses Mendelssohn Thomas Reid Scepticism Before Kant The Berlin Academy Immanuel Kant Vico, Hamann, and Herder Eighteenth-Century Racism

7. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Introduction Early Sceptical, Religious, and Literary Responses to Kantian Philosophy The Flowering of Idealism

Johann Gottlieb Fichte F. W. J. Schelling G. W. F. Hegel

The Turn from Idealism

Arthur Schopenhauer Søren Kierkegaard Ludwig Feuerbach Karl Marx

The Problem of Values in the Late Nineteenth Century France Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy American Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century The Beginnings of Pragmatism: Peirce, Wright, James, Royce John Dewey

8. Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

Introduction Symbolic Logic The Logistic Thesis The Theory of Descriptions Logical Positivism Ludwig Wittgenstein Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin Karl Popper and W.V. O. Quine Direct-Reference Theorists Donald Davidson and John Searle New Directions

9. Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

The Early Decades: Positivism, Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey Husserl and Phenomenology Martin Heidegger Continental Philosophy of Science Existentialism and Beyond Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur Continental Theistic Philosophers Continental Philosophy: Neo-Marxism French Feminist Philosophy Poststructuralism: Derrida and Foucault Continental Philosophy at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Epilogue Epilogue on the History of Philosophy

History of Philosophy and Reconstructing Philosophy Women in the History of Philosophy Philosophy and the History of Philosophy

Index of Names Index of Subjects