Great Thinkers A-Z

Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophers.co.uk), Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005). Jeremy Stangroom is the author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Riddle and its sequels. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

• Adorno; Arendt; Aquinas; Aristotle; Augustine; Avicenna; Ayer; Bacon; Baudrillard; de Beauvoir; Benjamin; Bentham; Bergson; Berkeley; Boethius; Brentano; Butler; Camus; Carnap; Chomsky; Churchland; Cixous; Collingwood; Comte; Craik; Croce; Darwin; Davidson; Deleuze; Dennett; Descartes; Derrida; Dewey; Dilthey; Duns Scotus; Einstein; Foucault; Frege; Freud; Gadamer; Godel; Habermas; Hayek; Hegel; Heidegger; Hobbes; Hume; Husserl; Irigaray; James; Kant; Kierkegaard; Kripke; Kristeva; Kuhn; Leibniz; Levinas; Lewis; Locke; Machiavelli; MacIntyre; Marx; MacMurray; Merleau-Ponty; Mill; Montaigne; Moore; Nagel; Negri; Nietzsche; Nozick; Nussbaum; Paine; Pascal; Peirce; Plato; Plotinus; Popper; Putnam; Pythagoras; Quine; Rawls; Rorty; Rousseau; Russell; Santayana; Sartre; Schopenhauer; Searle; Seneca; Sidgwick; Singer; Socrates; Spinoza; Taylor; Turing; Vico; Weil; Whitehead; Wittgenstein; Zeno.

"The entries are fairly easy to read and do offer a credible summary of each philosopher's contribution." - American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 36, 2005