The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection

• Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy

• This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy

• Explains difficult concepts in an easily accessible manner, and addresses the use and application of these concepts

• Proven useful to philosophy students at both beginning and advanced levels