The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

Edited by Richard H. Popkin

Paper, 864 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10129-5
$29.95 / £19.95

January, 1999
Cloth, 864 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10128-8
$83.50 / £49.00

"Recommended for undergraduate libraries that support courses in the history of philosophy and general humanities. General readers and all student levels." — Choice

"Undoubtedly slated to be a standard on any literate shelf for generations to come... It is eminently readable and enjoyable." — 15 Minutes Magazine

"The volume is a fitting testimonial to Popkin’s life’s work." — Douglas Moggach, The European Legacy

Related Subjects

• European History
• Philosophy
• Reference

About the Author

Richard H. Popkin was professor emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis, and adjunct professor of philosophy and history at UCLA. He was the founding director of the International Archives of the History of Ideas, and president emeritus and founding editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Among his many books are The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought; The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza; Introduction to Philosophy (with Avrum Stroll); and The High Road to Pyrrhonism.

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