By Richard Henry Popkin & Stephen J. Brown Brian P. Copenhaver & Thomas R. Flynn & Rudolf A. Makkreel & Gerald A. Press & Thomas A. Robinson & Avrum Stroll
Richard Popkin has assembled sixty three top students to forge a chronological account of the improvement of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this quantity presents full of life, in-depth, and updated historic analyses of the entire key figures, faculties, and pursuits of Western philosophy. each one bankruptcy comprises an introductory essay, and Popkin presents notes that Read more...
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Next, I owe much gratitude to four research assistants of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Center at UCLA, Kimberley Garmoe, Russell Ives Court, Anna Suranyi, and Tim Corrall, who most ably aided me in finishing the volume, editing manuscripts, doing library research, and many other tasks. Then, I should like to take this opportunity to thank Franz Peter Hugdahl of Columbia University Press, with whom I have been in almost constant communication. We have worked out many critical problems together, and he has worked valiantly to finally bring the volume to publication.
Press is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College—City University of New York. His books include The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity (1982) and Study Guide for Thinking Logically (1988), and he is editor of Plato’s Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations (1993) and the forthcoming Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity. Press is the editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Richard H. Popkin is Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St.
Popkin Index of Names Index of Subjects Acknowledgments I should like to take this opportunity to thank those who have aided me in the preparation of this volume. First of all, I should like to thank Robert John Arias, a former student of mine, who did much of the initial work looking over the contributions and getting them organized in a common computer program. He gave me much valuable advice in putting the entire volume together. Next, I owe much gratitude to four research assistants of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Center at UCLA, Kimberley Garmoe, Russell Ives Court, Anna Suranyi, and Tim Corrall, who most ably aided me in finishing the volume, editing manuscripts, doing library research, and many other tasks.