The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
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牛津哲学词典
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-0149.1996.tb02546.x
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1996
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通讯作者:
A. Macintyre
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作者:
A. Macintyre
Both of these books will be consulted for many years to come. One of the tasks of a reviewer must of course be to identifir their defects and limitations. But attention to these should not be allowed to diminish the very high praise due to Robert Audi as editor and Simon Blackburn as author. To a surprising extent they are not in competition with one another, as the writers of the two sets of dustjacket copy would have us believe:“the most comprehensive and authoritative one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English,” says Cambridge’s mouthpiece about Audi’s book.“The most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy available in a single volume,” says Oxford’s about Blackburn’s. They cannot both be right, but share in the same silliness, that very English obsession with ranking books, people, and