Comprehensive and up-to-date, this new edition of A Dictionary of Philosophy spans 2500 years of philosophical thought, and offers an invaluable reference to the student of philosophy and the general reader alike.

* Extensive coverage of modern as well as historical fields, encompassing personalities, terminology and vocabulary

* Extends from the classical thinkers, through Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza and Kant to Russell, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Baudrillard and Derrida

* Entries by leading figures in their field on environmental ethics, the philosophy of economics, externalism, the concept of God, practical reason and virtue ethics, among many others

* Particular attention given to continental philosophy

* Over 2000 entries, with full cross-references