This reference book on philosophy brings the subject up to date with entries on new concepts, new thinking about older themes, and entries relating to developing schools such as feminist philosophy and post-structuralism. All the entries aim to reflect the state of the art in philosophy scholarship. The encyclopedia contains than 2000 thematic, biographical and national entries ranging from 500 to 15,000 words in length, and is bound in 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text, with considerable bibliographic material. It has contributions from 1200 international authors. It covers: the core of most Anglo-American philosophy - the metaphysical, epistemological and logical questions; ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy; and the philosophy of other cultures - from Chinese, Arabic and Jewish philosophy to the philosophy of Africa and Latin America