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

• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
• Do They Think You're Stupid?
• Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets
• Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
• A New History of Western Philosophy