The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflectionFeatures significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophyThis edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophyExplains difficult concepts in an easily accessible manner, and addresses the use and application of these concepts.

THE PHILOSOPHER'S TOOLKIT; Contents; Alphabetical Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Basic Tools for Argument; 2 More Advanced Tools; 3 Tools for Assessment; 4 Tools for Conceptual Distinctions; 5 Tools of Historical Schools and Philosophers; 6 Tools for Radical Critique; 7 Tools at the Limit; Internet Resources for Philosophers; Index;