From Empedocles to Wittgenstein

Sir Anthony Kenny has been President of the British Academy and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He has written many acclaimed books on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, including both scholarly and popular works on Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein.

• 1. Seven Concepts of Creation ; 2. Life after Etna: Empedocles in Prose and Poetry ; 3. Virtue and the Good in Plato and Aristotle ; 4. Aristotle's Criteria for Happiness ; 5. Practical Truth in Aristotle ; 6. Aristotle's Categories in the Latin Fathers ; 7. Essence and Existence: Aquinas and Islamic Philosophy ; 8. Aquinas on the Beginning of Individual Human Life ; 9. Thomas and Thomism ; 10. Aquinas in America ; 11. "Philosophy states only what everyone admits" ; 12. Cognitive Scientism ; 13. The Wittgenstein Editions ; 14. Knowledge, Belief, and Faith ; 15. The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Belief ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography

Every one of these fifteen texts is thought-provoking and immensly learned. and it is a pleasure to follow Kenny's thought from one theme to another ... Kenny has again managed to do what he set out to do in his work on the history of Philosophy, 'to be more accurate than Russell and more entertaining than Copleston'.