In keeping with those virtues that have made it the leading collection of its kind, the fifth edition of Classics of Western Philosophy features unabridged works (or substantial selections) in pre-eminent and thoughtfully annotated translations and editions. As before, introductions by a team of distinguished scholars including: William Mann, Steven Cahn, Patricia W Kitcher, George Sher, Derk Pereboom, Philip W Kitcher, Charles Guignon, Israel Scheffler, and Jonathan Vogel offer authoritative guidance to the philosophers and their work. And now coverage extends into the twentieth century, culminating in a judicious, and non-technical selection of philosophical writings that are both classic in their own right and representative of main currents of recent philosophical thought.
Steven M. Cahn a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City.
