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The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy belongs on the bookshelf of every reader. An authoritative philosophy reference work, the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives readers the best of the critically acclaimed ten volume original collection. It offers the same breadth and coverage and reference features in an accessible format.
Over 2000 accessible and easy to use entries
Contributions from more than 1200 of the world's leading thinkers
Complete coverage of the classic subjects including Plato, Arguements for the Existence of God and Metaphysics
Up to date coverage of philosophers themes and schools
Unrivalled international and multicultural scope
Suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry

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The most complete and up-to-date philosophy reference for a new generation, with entries ranging from Abstract Objects to Wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ancient Egyptian Philosophy to Yoruba Epistemology. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes: * More than 2000 alphabetically arranged, accessible entries * Contributions from more than 1200 of the world's leading thinkers * Comprehensive coverage of the classic philosophical themes, such as Plato, Arguments for the Existence of God and Metaphysics * Up-to-date coverage of contemporary philosophers, ideas, schools and recent developments, including Jacques Derrida, Poststructuralism and Ecological Philosophy * Unrivalled international and multicultural scope with entries such as Modern Islamic Philosophy, Marxist Thought in Latin America and Chinese Buddhist Thought * An exhaustive index for ease of use * Extensive cross-referencing * Suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry Hailed as 'monumental', 'impressive', and 'the most wide-ranging encyclopedia of philosophy ever published in English', the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy set a new standard in the field upon its publication.

Winner of numerous awards, including Editor's Choice from Booklist, Outstanding Reference Source from the American Library Association and Best in Reference from Library Journal, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is destined to become the definitive reference for generations to come. Now, the extraordinary scholarship of this acclaimed 10-volume work is available in one affordable book.The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy brings together more than 2000 entries - thematic and biographical - from the original work in a shortened, accessible format. Extensively cross-referenced and indexed so readers can easily find information ranging from Heraclitus to Chinese Marxism to Egyptian cosmology, the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides succinct, expert treatments of philosophies from all over the world, including India, Africa and Latin America, as well as Chinese, Arabic and Jewish philosophy.

Medieval philosophy, philosophies of science, gender, postmodernism, and many, many more key concepts are covered by some of the most renowned thinkers of our time, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Roderick Chisholm, Fred Dretske, Joel Feinberg, Sandra Harding, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Popkin, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stephen Stich, Patrick Suppes and Bernard Williams. A quintessential reference that provides hours of browsing enjoyment as well as a serious guide into the world of philosophy, the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy will delight armchair philosophers and professionals alike.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Comprehensive but can be ignorant, 25 Oct 2007 By  calmly - See all my reviews I spent a few days browsing thru, to get a rough idea of what areas of philosophy I might do well to study more. For that purpose, this book seemed good. I was alarmed, however, to find in the entry for "Skinner, Burrhus Frederick" this statement: "Both it [i.e. scientific behaviorism] and radical behaviorism have been obviated by the development of a computational theory of the mind." That's false. Radical behaviorism is the philosophy of behavior that informs the science of applied behavior analysis, of which there are thousands of practicing analysts and thousands of clients benefitting from those analysts. Computational theories of the mind are speculative, tend toward "mentalism" ( fictitous explanation) and, as yet, have yielded little if any practical benefit. Skinner expected that (physical) brain science would advance and welcomed that, but behaviorism is operating at a different level and is not invalidated by advances in brain science. Limitations in any theory of the mind, computational or otherwise, were precisely what led Skinner to a behaviorist approach. The emergence of computational theories of the mind presents nothing to lessen the problems Skinner recognizes were inherent in theories of the mind. On the contrary, study of Radical Behaviorism is all the more important so that the fictitous aspects of such theories be recognized. It was no accident that in the March 1994 issue of the American Psychological Society's magazine "Observer", president Roddy Roediger, a cognitive psychologist, in his article "What Happened to Behaviorism", suggested celebrating "the power of behavioristic analyses...even if you are one of the cognitive psychologists who believe behaviorism is irrelevant, passe and/or dead. It isn't". Computational theories of the mind may seem intriguing, but they hardly obviate Radical Behaviorism. That such an ignorant statement was published makes me wonder about how many other similar false statements are in this book. See if the following doesn't seem a more wise and professional way of handling the differences between the cognitive and behaviorist positions. It's from G.E. Zuriff's review of Lattal's and Chase's "Behavior Theory and Philosophy" and appeared in May 2005 issue The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: "In principle, there are no decisive philosophical objections to a cognitive theory. Practically, however, there is ample disagreement over whether such a theory will, in fact, generate fruitful research progress. Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience are betting that such a theory is feasible, whereas SIB [ Skinner Inspired Behaviorism ] seems committ