The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Quick Reference)

This reference book empowered me to share the big ideas of my undergraduate philosophy education with my atheist brother who's inspired by the cold comforts of rationality. He no longer needs to reflexively reduce the world to mindless, miniscule entities.

This is the 3rd edition of Blackburn's handy dictionary. It's much improved, and more comprehensive than the 1st edition I used to own.That 1st edition, in turn, replaced my well-used and much-loved copy of Priest's revision of Flew's Dictionary of Philosophy.Blackburn is a bit more up to date, a bit more inclusive, more opinionated, and maybe a little easier to follow.Each one was just the right size and pretty much the right level for an amateur like me.

Satisfactory, but not comprehensive. Short definitions

A great tool to have for those beginning to delve into philosophical writings. Much of philosophy builds on references to other works and terms having a specific meaning and having such a book to build up understanding of those terms is quite helpful so you can continue reading the present work with increased comprehension. I also find it useful in pursuing threads of philosophic thought and identifying areas of interest.

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It has a great variety of terms (a lot that I still dont know) so its great for a student in philosophy or if youre just fascinated by it like me. My only problem is that quite a bit of the definitions that I've read sound subjective. Not saying they're not true or that the definitions are arbitrary, Its just there tends to be a bit of emotion in the definitions (ones that ive read) that kind of suggest the authors personal view of the philosophical terms. For example the definition on "sex" about its history in philosophy sounds very emotional and not an objective description of the subject.

Exactly want I wanted for my college Philosophy courses. I still love a paperback size dictionary and when the prof. has a "no electronic" ban then boom it comes in really handy. I used it and it has way more than my last philosophy dictionary (a total failure)