The Oxford companion to philosophy
by Ted Honderich · first published 1995
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The brave, large aim of this book is to bring philosophy together between two covers better than ever before. The philosophy brought together includes, first of all, the work of the great philosophers. As that term is commonly used, there are perhaps twenty of them. Philosophy as this book conceives it, secondly, includes all of its history in the English language, a history mainly of British and American thinkers. In this history there are many figures not so monumental as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Thirdly, the book does attend to histories of philosophy in other languages than English. A fo
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The 'Oxford Companion to the Mind' http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Mind-Richard-Gregory/... And also the Oxford Companion to Philosophy are my go to reference points on the subject. Just really great encyclopedias on the two areas.
on “Ask HN: Psychology Books” ↗…Roman Catholic Church put his books on the Index, and _Oxford University dismissed faculty for being Hobbists. Some people recommended burning not only his books but Hobbes himself_ (From "Hobbes", in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy) > Unused to having their own ideas taken seriously, philosophers today may be surprised to learn that the Parliament of the time regarded the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) as a probable cause…
on “Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics” ↗…simplifying the question, but I reckon it boils down to how do we know what we know? Am I sat in front of a computer screen now, or do I just believe I am? I'm not really a philosopher, at all, but the Oxford Companion to Philosophy says: "Do you know that you are looking at a... book right now rather than, say, having your brain intricately stimulated by a mad scientist? The sceptic carefully describes this alternative so that…
on “Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation?” ↗