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From Aristotle to Zen, this is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy available. Ideal for students or a general readership, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only the Western philosophical tradition but also important themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy. * 2,500 entries including the most recent terms and concepts * Biographical entries for nearly 500 philosophers * Terms relevant to philosophy from neighbouring disciplines Chronology of philosophical events
Author Notes
Simon Blackburn is Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina. Former editor of the journal Mind, he is the author of Spreading the Word (1984) and Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), both published by OUP.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
YA-A wondrous study of the concepts that structure our thinking. The 25,000 entries include the traditional ancient Eastern and Western philosophers, statesmen, and theologians as well as the modern influences in literary, social, political, math, and scientific movements. From Plato to Turing, this dictionary explains the ideas in language that students can understand and enjoy. Each definition explores the origin, current thought, and philosophers most associated with the concept. Cross-references are included. At just over 400 pages, this volume is easily used and not as intimidating as many specific-knowledge dictionaries. Blackburn describes his dictionary as a ``playground for browsers and a resource for anyone interested in general intellectual movements...'' YAs are likely to find themselves browsing compulsively day after day.-Cecelia Blotkamp, R.E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Blackburn designed The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy "as a playground for browsers and a resource for anyone interested in general intellectual movements, as well as a simple work of reference." He was editor of the journal Mind from 1984 through 1990 and is currently a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina. He is author of Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993) and Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language (1984). Blackburn operates in the Anglo-American analytic philosophical tradition, as opposed to the existentialist or phenomenological traditions of Europe. The work is a distinctly personal one, though Blackburn's assessments of philosophical positions and discussions are objective and expository in tone. For example, of Immanuel Kant, he states, "his place as the greatest philosopher of the last 300 years is well assured.. . . [w]hilst his confidence in the a priori and the structure of his idealism have been widely rejected, it is not too much to say that all modern epistemology, metaphysics, and even ethics, is implicitly affected by the architecture he created." The nearly 3,000 entries cover a wide variety of topics. Biographical entries include Aquinas, Russell, Isaiah Berlin, Michel Foucault, Darwin, and Keynes. While philosophers such as Plato and Nietzsche receive a page or more of treatment, those included for a peripheral contribution to philosophy, such as Keynes or Einstein, receive about half a column. Other entries run from a few lines to a page in length. Topics range back to the beginnings of Western and Eastern philosophy and across fields to discuss philosophical insights or approaches to economics, love, dreams, biology, and so forth. Yet the bulk of the dictionary consists of concise, focused definitions of terms used by analytic philosophers and philosophy students: falsifiability, protocol statements, liar paradox, subjectivism/objectivism, and prisoners' dilemma. Blackburn writes in an interesting and easy-to-follow style. He has made liberal use of cross-references (marked by asterisks within the text) and see and see also references at the end of entries. Some entries include bits of symbolic logic; a two-page appendix defines most of the symbols used. This book is the most recent dictionary of philosophy. Dagobert Runes edited numerous editions of his Dictionary of Philosophy between 1942 and 1984 (Littlefield). Antony Flew's Dictionary of Philosophy came out in 1979 and 1984 (St. Martin's). Peter Angeles wrote his Dictionary of Philosophy in 1981; a revised edition was published in 1992 as The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy. The Oxford Dictionary is uniquely broad in its coverage. It is accessible to the general reader, while at the same time being useful for the scholar or student. It is recommended for all academic and public libraries. (Reviewed January 15, 1995)
Choice Review
This revised second edition features content nearly identical to that of the 2005 second edition (1st, CH, May'95, 32-4821) but adds a "see weblinks" feature. By visiting the companion Web site , one may access the links for selected entries. The online resources here vary in quality and authoritativeness. Like the second edition on which it is based, this revised dictionary is well written, concise, and thorough. The entries do a good job of making philosophical terminology understandable to beginners while providing a broad, reasonably unbiased picture of the landscape of philosophy. Biographical entries are balanced but address the personalities and contributions of their subjects. The appendixes, covering logical symbols and a chronology of philosophy, are nearly identical to the second edition's. The chronology requires that one refer to the related articles. The online version of this work, available through Oxford Reference Online (CH, Sep'02, 40-0005), uses cross-links to related entries, which are denoted by an asterisk in the print version. The Web links referred to in the print version also appear at the bottom of entries in the electronic version. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers. J. P. Renaud University of Miami
Library Journal Review
Almost 3000 entries-many extensively cross-referenced-cover Eastern and Western philosophy (with emphasis on the latter), all the main subdivisions of philosophy, terminology from other disciplines that is significant in philosophical discussion, and major historical figures. Occasionally, information in a definition coupled with its cross references make the term's meaning unnecessarily murky (e.g., compare the "validity"-"follow"-"entailment" sequence to the definition of "validity" in a standard elementary logic text). Some definitions are idiosyncratic (e.g., that of "straw man"), and some omit something necessary for correctness (e.g., the common knowledge condition in defining D. Lewis's "convention"). On the whole, however, the definitions are clear, correct, and useful, and the subjects of biographical entries are generally chosen sensibly. Blackburn covers more than A.R. Lacey in A Dictionary of Philosophy (Routledge, 1990) and a bit more than Antony Flew in A Dictionary of Philosophy (St. Martin's, 1984. 2d ed.), though Flew is somewhat clearer. Since these three dictionaries have different emphases, they complement one another nicely. Recommended for academic libraries.-Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Oxford Paperback Reference | p. ii |
| Preface | p. vii |
| A p. 1 | |
| B p. 34 | |
| C p. 53 | |
| D p. 92 | |
| E p. 114 | |
| F p. 134 | |
| G p. 152 | |
| H p. 165 | |
| I p. 183 | |
| J p. 201 | |
| K p. 205 | |
| L p. 210 | |
| M p. 227 | |
| N p. 254 | |
| O p. 267 | |
| P p. 275 | |
| Q p. 313 | |
| R p. 317 | |
| S p. 337 | |
| T p. 372 | |
| U p. 385 | |
| V p. 389 | |
| W p. 397 | |
| X,Y p. 403 | |
| Z p. 404 | |
| Appendix: Logical symbols | p. 406 |
| Chronology | p. 409 |