The Great Philosophers - from Socrates To Turing

Informationen zum Autor Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John¿s College in Cambridge where he was a major scholar in Classics. He has written nineteen novels. His other works include translations, essays and radio plays. He is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times literary and travel pages. He is married with three children. He divides his time between France and England. Ray Monk is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and has also written biographies of Bertrand Russell and J. Robert Oppenheimer. His chief interests now lie in environmental activism and the promotion of veganism. Klappentext The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader. Zusammenfassung The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Monk, Frederic Raphael
• Assisted by: Ray Monk (Editor), Monk Ray (Editor), Frederic Raphael (Editor), Raphael Frederic (Editor)
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2001
• EAN: 9780753811368
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-1136-8
• No. of pages: 570
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Enlightenment