Chapter Page
General Introduction ix
Part 1 Ancient Philosophy
List of Contents of Part One 3
Introduction to Part One 7
1. Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato 8
2. Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine 57
3. How to Argue: Logic 95
4. Knowledge and its Limits: Epistemology 118
5. How Things Happen: Physics 143
6. What There Is: Metaphysics 160
7. Soul and Mind 183
8. How to Live: Ethics 204
9. God 228
Part 2 Medieval Philosophy
List of Contents of Part Two 253
Introduction to Part Two 257
1. Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides 261
2. The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance 299
3. Logic and Language 344
4. Knowledge 375
5. Physics 391
6. Metaphysics 401
7. Mind and Soul 420
8. Ethics 449
9. God 468
Part 3 The Rise of Modern Philosophy
List of Contents of Part Time 497
Introduction to Part Three 501
1. Sixteenth-Century Philosophy 503
2. De...scartes to Berkeley 526
3. Hume to Hegel 562
4. Knowledge 588
5. Physics 624
6. Metaphysics 636
7. Mind and Soul 659
8. Ethics 685
9. Political Philosophy 705
10. God 727
Part 4 Philosophy in the Modern World
List of Contents of Part Four 751
Introduction to Part Four 755
1. Bentham to Nietzsche 757
2. Peirce to Strawson 781
3. Freud to Derrida 810
4. Logic 829
5. Language 848
6. Epistemology 865
7. Metaphysics 884
8. Philosophy of Mind 901
9. Ethics 922
10. Aesthetics 945
11. Political Philosophy 961
12. God 977
Chronology 997
Abbreviations and Conventions 1001
Bibliography 1015
Index 1045