FIFTY MAJOR PHILOSOPHERS Fifty Major Philosophers invites the reader to explore the ideas of some of the most important and influential thinkers of the last two-and-a-half thousand years. This revised edition contains seven new entries: Dewey, Collingwood, Popper, Quine, Merleau-Ponty Ayer and Rawls. It also offers: ● thoroughly updated further reading sections ● a larger glossary ● alphabetical and chronological lists of contents ● an index Fifty Major Philosophers presents the traditional mainstream of European philosophy and is a vital reference tool for those wishing to improve their understanding of some of the world’s seminal intellectual figures.
Diané Collinson was formerly Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Philosophy at the Open University. She is a co-author of Fifty Eastern Thinkers and One Hundred Twentieth- Century Philosophers.
Kathryn Plant teaches at Cardiff University and is a co-author of Fifty Eastern Thinkers. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ROUTLEDGE Philosophy: The Basics (fourth edition) Nigel Warbuton Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings Oliver Leaman Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers John Lechte Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers Dan Cohn-Sherbok Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy Oliver Leaman Fifty Eastern Thinkers Diané Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts Sophia Wellbeloved The panion to Postmodernism Edited by Stuart Sim The panion to Feminism and Postfeminism Edited by Sarah Gamble Concise Encylopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers Edited by and Jonathan Ree One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson and Robert Wilkinson FIFTY MAJOR PHILOSOPHERS
Diané Collinson and Kathryn Plant
LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1987 by Croom Helm Ltd First published in paperback 1988 by Routledge This edition published 2006 by Routl
