By Frank Jackson and Michael Smith

Description

• The state-of-the-art guide to todays most exciting research in academic philosophy
• A stellar team of contributors from the UK, Europe, North America, and Australasia
• Each essay is substantial and challenging but fully accessible

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy is the definitive guide to whats going on in this lively and fascinating subject. Jackson and Smith, themselves two of the worlds most eminent philosophers, have assembled more than thirty distinguished scholars to contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research. The coverage is broad, with sections devoted to moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of the sciences. This Handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of philosophy today.

Readership: Scholars and students in all fields of contemporary philosophy, and those in other disciplines wanting to know whats going on in the discipline.

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Frank Jackson, Australian National University and Michael Smith, Princeton University

Published Year: 2007 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 978-0-19-923476-9 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 920 Our Price: £ 27.50 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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