The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

Content: Introduction / Richard H. Popkin --
1. Origins of Western Philosophic Thinking --
Introduction / Richard H. Popkin. --
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers / Thomas M. Robinson. --
The Sophists / Thomas M. Robinson. --
Socrates and the Socratics / David K. O\'Connor. --
Plato / Gerald A. Press. --
Aristotle / Richard Bodeus. --
Brief Summary of Aristotle\'s Writings / Gerald A. Press --
Hellenistic Philosophy / A.A. Long --
Middle Platonism / Harold Tarrant --
Gnosticism / Harold Tarrant --
Plotinus and Neoplatonism / Lloyd P. Gerson --
Early Jewish and Christian Uses of Philosophy / Steve Mason --
The Greek Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy / John Peter Kenney --
The Latin Tradition in Early Christian Philosophy / James J. O\'Donnell --
2. Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy --
Introduction / Richard H. Popkin --
Sa\'adya Gaon / Seymour Feldman --
Jewish and Early Muslim Neoplatonism / Alfred L. Ivry --
Abu Nasr Muhammed al-Farabi / Therese-Anne Druart --
Avicenna / Michael E. Marmura --
Al-Ghazali / James Naify --
Philosophical Mysticism in Islamic Thought / Fadlou Shehadi --
Introduction / Richard H. Popkin --
Solomon ibn Gabirol / T.M. Rudavsky --
Judah Halevi / Barry S. Kogan --
Averroes / Alfred L. Ivry --
Moses Maimonides / Daniel H. Frank --
Jewish Averroism / Alfred L. Ivry --
Gersonides / Robert Eisen --
Hasdai Crescas, Joseph Albo, and Isaac Abrabanel / Warren Zev Harvey --
Moses de Leon and the Zohar / Allison Coudert --
Isaac Luria and the Lurianic Kabbalah / Allison Coudert --
Abraham Cohen Herrera / Richard H. Popkin --
Conclusion / Richard H. Popkin --
3. Medieval Christian Philosophy --
Early Period / Stephen F. Brown --
Translation and Transmission of Greek Philosophy / Stephen F. Brown --
Bonaventure / Stephen F. Brown --
Thomas Aquinas / Stephen F. Brown --
Latin Averroism / Stephen F. Brown --
Scotus and Scotism / Stephen F. Brown --
Late Scholasticism / Stephen F. Brown --
Realism Versus Nominalism / Stephen F. Brown --
4. The Renaissance --
Between Ockham and Descartes / Brian P. Copenhaver --
Aristotelianisms / Brian P. Copenhaver --
Humanism / Michael R. Allen --
Platonism / Brian P. Copenhaver and John Monfasani --
Doubt and Innovation / Brian P. Copenhaver --
5. Seventeenth-Century Philosophy --
The Sceptical Crisis / Richard H. Popkin --
Rene Descartes / Harry M. Bracken --
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy After Descartes / Richard H. Popkin --
Thomas Hobbes / G.A.J. Rogers --
Blaise Pascal / Jose R. Maia Neto --
The Philosophy of the Royal Society of England / Richard H. Popkin --
The Kabbala denudata / Allison Coudert. The Cambridge Platonists / Sarah Hutton --
Baruch de Spinoza / Richard H. Popkin --
John Locke / G.A.J. Rogers --
Nicolas Malebranche / Harry M. Bracken --
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz / Donald Rutherford --
Pierre Bayle and Bishop Huet, the Master Sceptics / Richard H. Popkin --
Europe and Non-European Cultures / Richard H. Popkin --
China and Western Philosophy in the Age of Reason / Yuen-Ting Lai --
6. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy --
Introduction / Richard H. Popkin --
Isaac Newton / James E. Force --
The Newton-Leibniz Controversy / Donald Rutherford. Deism / Justin A.I. Champion --
George Berkeley / Harry M. Bracken --
Immaterialism in the American Colonies: Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Edwards / Richard H. Popkin --
David Hume / Richard H. Popkin --
The French Enlightenment / Richard H. Popkin --
Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff / Manfred Kuehn --
Moses Mendelssohn / Manfred Kuehn --
Thomas Reid / Harry M. Bracken --
Scepticism Before Kant / Manfred Kuehn --
The Berlin Academy / John Christian Laursen --
Immanuel Kant / Karl Ameriks --
Vico, Hamann, and Herder / Richard H. Popkin --
Eighteenth-Century Racism / Richard H. Popkin --
7. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy --
Introduction / Rudolf A. Makkreel --
Early Sceptical, Religious, and Literary Responses to Kantian Philosophy / Frederick Beiser --
The Flowering of Idealism. Johann Gottlieb Fichte / Gunter Zoller. F.W.J. Schelling / Dale E. Snow --
G.W.F. Hegel / Tom Rockmore --
The Turn from Idealism. Arthur Schopenhauer / Gunter Zoller --
Soren Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal --
Ludwig Feuerbach / Tom Rockmore --
Karl Marx / Tom Rockmore --
The Problem of Values in the Late Nineteenth Century / Rudolf A. Makkreel --
France / Francois Azouvi --
Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy / John Skorupski --
American Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century / Richard H. Popkin --
The Beginnings of Pragmatism: Peirce, Wright, James, Royce / Robert G. Meyers --
John Dewey / Richard H. Popkin --
8. Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy --
Introduction / Avrum Stroll --
Symbolic Logic / Avrum Stroll --
The Logistic Thesis / Avrum Stroll --
The Theory of Descriptions / Avrum Stroll --
Logical Positivism / Avrum Stroll --
Ludwig Wittgenstein / Avrum Stroll --
Gilbert Ryle and J.L. Austin / Avrum Stroll --
Karl Popper and W.V.O. Quine / Avrum Stroll --
Direct-Reference Theorists / Avrum Stroll --
Donald Davidson and John Searle / Avrum Stroll --
New Directions / Avrum Stroll --
9. Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy --
The Early Decades: Positivism, Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey / Steven Galt Crowell --
Husserl and Phenomenology / David Carr --
Martin Heidegger / Tom Nenon --
Continental Philosophy of Science / Joseph J. Kockelmans --
Existentialism and Beyond / Thomas R. Flynn --
Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur / G.B. Madison --
Continental Theistic Philosophers / Daniel Guerriere --
Continental Philosophy: Neo-Marxism / David Ingram --
French Feminist Philosophy / Jeanine Grenberg --
Poststructuralism: Derrida and Foucault / Franz Peter Hugdahl --
Continental Philosophy at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century A1 Charles E. Scott --
Epilogue / Richard H. Popkin --
Epilogue on the History of Philosophy --
History of Philosophy and Reconstructing Philosophy / Constance Blackwell --
Women in the History of Philosophy / Mary Ellen Waithe --
Philosophy and the History of Philosophy / Richard H. Popkin.