The student of philosophy often feels bewildered by the vast terminology of the subject. HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy helps lessen the confusion by providing a single source of clear and understandable definitions of philosophic terms. Emphasis is on the areas most commonly covered in introductory philosophy courses: epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics and the philosophies of religion and politics.
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Peter A. Angeles received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York. He has taught philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; Albert Schweitzer College, Switzerland; the University of California at Santa Barbara; and in Arizona taught at Northern Arizona University, Yavapai College, Mesa College, Scottsdale College, and the University of Phoenix. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Santa Barbara City College, where he taught and was Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy from 1970 to his early retirement in 1990. He is the author of an Introduction to Sentential Logic; the Possible Dream: Toward Understanding the Black Experience; The Problem of God and Critiques of God (ed.); Dictionary of Christian Theology; When Blind eyes Pierce the Darkness; and numerous articles in scholarly journals.
He is currently living in Santa Barbara, California and writing a Dictionary of World Religions and a Dictionary of Philosophic Concepts for College Students and another series of 52 half-hour weekly children's stories for his radio show The Children's Story Time; and is writing and producing more of his one-act plays.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent reference dictionary for non-experts,
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This review is from: The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy: In-Depth Explanations and Examples Covering Over 3,000 Entries [Second Edition] (Paperback)
Mr. Angeles has put together a compact and clear volume of various philosophical terms, as well as brief biographies of all major philosophers. The dictionary is extremely valuable to those, such as myself, who do not formally study philosophy yet wish to understand basic mechanisms and terminology. Of particular interest is the list of informal logical fallacies (under FALLACIES, informal). How many times have you listened to some blathering politician or read some moronic, glib newspaper article and been convinced that the author was being illogical? If that's happened to you more than once, then the informal logical fallacies Mr. Angeles lays out are just the thing for you. My only complaint about the book is its lack of inclusion of religious philosophy (for example, it does not have a brief section discussing the basis principles of Islam or Buddism).
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent, compact and to the point.,
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This review is from: The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy: In-Depth Explanations and Examples Covering Over 3,000 Entries [Second Edition] (Paperback)
This dictionary was recommended to me for my philosophy courses. I was rewarded by its usefullness and concise, direct definitions. I found it a valuable asset to my core philosophy courses and will certainly keep it on my shelf for further reference.
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This review is from: The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy: In-Depth Explanations and Examples Covering Over 3,000 Entries [Second Edition] (Paperback)
I have been a student of philosophy and philosophers for all of my adult life. There are terms in Philosophy that anyone who wants to understand Philosophy must know. I have the 8 volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy; I have the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, and I have several small dictionaries like this one. Whenever I sit down to start reading any philosophy book or philosopher, I go to my bookshelf and get this little dictionary. Philosophy is always slow reading and going to a dictionary 3 times in every paragraph makes it even slower but a heck of a lot clearer.I must order another copy of this book because the pages are starting to fall out of this old copy that I have. The definitions in this little book are more concise, clearer, simpler, and more accurate than anything else I have. This is a good one! Richard Edward Noble - The Hobo Philosopher - Author of: "Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
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