Edward Craig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Craig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Craig |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philosophy
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction looks at different schools of philosophy and classic philosophical problems, via readings from Plato, Hume, Hobbes, Descartes, and early Buddhist writers. Could a philosopher today be asking the same questions about the self as David Hume or the early Buddhists? What were Descartes and Nietzsche trying to prove? Most people have a philosophy, in terms of a general picture of what they think the world is like …
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The most complete and up-to-date philosophy reference for a new generation, with entries ranging from Abstract Objects to Wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ancient Egyptian Philosophy to Yoruba Epistemology.The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes:* More than 2000 alphabetically arranged, accessible entries* Contributors from more than 1200 of the world's leading thinkers* Comprehensive coverage of the classic philosophical t…
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Shorter REP presents the very best of the acclaimed ten volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy in a single volume. It makes a selection of the most important entries available for the first time and covers all you need to know about philosophy, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein and animals and ethics to scientific method.Comprising over 900 entries and covering the major philosophers and philosophical topics, The Shorter REP includes the fo…
Philosophy
How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know?" "This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for." "Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity from another planet: learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato, Buddh…
Philosophy
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. To some extent we are all philosophers. Nearly all of us have some kind of values by which we live our lives. Most of us favour a general picture of what the world is like. Philosophy, thought of mainly as subject to study, simply means being reflective. Philosophy is …
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Response to Lehrer
Professor Lehrer's coherence theory makes play with the metaphor of a keystone arch. The metaphor is graphic, but it may cause card-carrying foundationalists to give a little private smile. After all, no key-stone in the history of architecture ever kept even a single brick up unless the walls were already standing firmly on something solid. So there you have a reason, if you needed one, for not letting the metaphor affect your preferences as to …
Knowledge and the State of Nature
This book is an inquiry in epistemology directed at understanding the concept of knowledge. Its point of departure is that the standard philosophical project of analysing the concept of knowledge arbitrarily restricts the subject matter and is based on risky theoretical presuppositions. Craig develops an alternative approach, akin to the ‘state of nature’ method in political theory, which builds up the concept from a hypothesis about the social f…
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Hegel and the Seven Planets
Knowledge and the State of Nature
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Knowledge and the State of Nature: an Essay in Conceptual Synthesis. By Edward Craig. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 169. Price £22.50.) Jonathan Dancy Jonathan Dancy Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 393–395, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219696 Published: 01 July 1992
Logical Necessity and Other Essays
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Logical Necessity and Other Essays. By I. G. Mcfetridge, ed. John Haldane and Roger Scruton. (London: Aristotelian Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 240. Price £24.00.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 164, July 1991, Pages 352–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220039 Published: 0…
Knowledge and the state of nature
In this illuminating study Craig argues that the standard practice of analyzing the concept of knowledge has radical defects--arbitrary restriction of the subject matter and risky theoretical presuppositions. He proposes a new approach similar to the "state-of-nature" method found in political theory, building the concept up from a hypothesis about its social function and the needs it fulfills. Shedding light on much that philosophers have writte…
Dispositions
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Dispositions. By Elizabeth Prior. (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985. Pp. vii + 114. Price £9.37, pb. £6.37.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 109–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220066 Published: 01 January 1987
The mind of God and the works of man
Hume on Thought and Belief
I. Two topics given prominence in the early sections of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding are those of thought and belief. Of each Hume asks two questions. One, which we might call the constitutive question: what exactly is it to have a thought, or to hold a belief?—and another, which we may call the genetic question: how do we come by our thoughts, or our capacity to think them, and how do we come to believe that certain of these tho…
David Hume
David Hume (1711–1776) was born in Scotland and attended Edinburgh University. In 1734, after a brief spell in a merchant's office in Bristol, he went to France to write A Treatise of Human Nature , published anonymously in 1739 (Books I and II) and 1740 (Book III). An Abstract , also anonymous and written as if by someone other than the author of the Treatise , appeared about the same time, and provides an invaluable account, in a brief compass,…
Scepticism, Rules and Language
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Scepticism, Rules and Language. By G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii + 140. Price £15.00) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 139, April 1985, Pages 212–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219352 Published: 01 April 1985
Sensory experience and the foundations of knowledge
Phenomenal Geometry
Berkeley's Attack on Abstract Ideas
Sensory experience and the foundations of knowledge
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Knowledge and the State of Nature
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Knowledge and the State of Nature: an Essay in Conceptual Synthesis. By Edward Craig. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 169. Price £22.50.) Jonathan Dancy Jonathan Dancy Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 393–395, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219696 Published: 01 July 1992
Berkeley's Attack on Abstract Ideas
Phenomenal Geometry
Sensory experience and the foundations of knowledge
Scepticism, Rules and Language
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Scepticism, Rules and Language. By G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii + 140. Price £15.00) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 139, April 1985, Pages 212–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219352 Published: 01 April 1985
Hume on Thought and Belief
I. Two topics given prominence in the early sections of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding are those of thought and belief. Of each Hume asks two questions. One, which we might call the constitutive question: what exactly is it to have a thought, or to hold a belief?—and another, which we may call the genetic question: how do we come by our thoughts, or our capacity to think them, and how do we come to believe that certain of these tho…
David Hume
David Hume (1711–1776) was born in Scotland and attended Edinburgh University. In 1734, after a brief spell in a merchant's office in Bristol, he went to France to write A Treatise of Human Nature , published anonymously in 1739 (Books I and II) and 1740 (Book III). An Abstract , also anonymous and written as if by someone other than the author of the Treatise , appeared about the same time, and provides an invaluable account, in a brief compass,…
Dispositions
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Dispositions. By Elizabeth Prior. (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985. Pp. vii + 114. Price £9.37, pb. £6.37.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 109–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220066 Published: 01 January 1987
The mind of God and the works of man
Knowledge and the state of nature
In this illuminating study Craig argues that the standard practice of analyzing the concept of knowledge has radical defects--arbitrary restriction of the subject matter and risky theoretical presuppositions. He proposes a new approach similar to the "state-of-nature" method found in political theory, building the concept up from a hypothesis about its social function and the needs it fulfills. Shedding light on much that philosophers have writte…
Logical Necessity and Other Essays
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Logical Necessity and Other Essays. By I. G. Mcfetridge, ed. John Haldane and Roger Scruton. (London: Aristotelian Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 240. Price £24.00.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 164, July 1991, Pages 352–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220039 Published: 0…
Hegel and the Seven Planets
Knowledge and the State of Nature
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Knowledge and the State of Nature: an Essay in Conceptual Synthesis. By Edward Craig. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 169. Price £22.50.) Jonathan Dancy Jonathan Dancy Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 393–395, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219696 Published: 01 July 1992
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Knowledge and the State of Nature
This book is an inquiry in epistemology directed at understanding the concept of knowledge. Its point of departure is that the standard philosophical project of analysing the concept of knowledge arbitrarily restricts the subject matter and is based on risky theoretical presuppositions. Craig develops an alternative approach, akin to the ‘state of nature’ method in political theory, which builds up the concept from a hypothesis about the social f…
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Response to Lehrer
Professor Lehrer's coherence theory makes play with the metaphor of a keystone arch. The metaphor is graphic, but it may cause card-carrying foundationalists to give a little private smile. After all, no key-stone in the history of architecture ever kept even a single brick up unless the walls were already standing firmly on something solid. So there you have a reason, if you needed one, for not letting the metaphor affect your preferences as to …
Philosophy
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. To some extent we are all philosophers. Nearly all of us have some kind of values by which we live our lives. Most of us favour a general picture of what the world is like. Philosophy, thought of mainly as subject to study, simply means being reflective. Philosophy is …
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Shorter REP presents the very best of the acclaimed ten volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy in a single volume. It makes a selection of the most important entries available for the first time and covers all you need to know about philosophy, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein and animals and ethics to scientific method.Comprising over 900 entries and covering the major philosophers and philosophical topics, The Shorter REP includes the fo…
Philosophy
How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know?" "This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for." "Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity from another planet: learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato, Buddh…
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The most complete and up-to-date philosophy reference for a new generation, with entries ranging from Abstract Objects to Wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ancient Egyptian Philosophy to Yoruba Epistemology.The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes:* More than 2000 alphabetically arranged, accessible entries* Contributors from more than 1200 of the world's leading thinkers* Comprehensive coverage of the classic philosophical t…
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction looks at different schools of philosophy and classic philosophical problems, via readings from Plato, Hume, Hobbes, Descartes, and early Buddhist writers. Could a philosopher today be asking the same questions about the self as David Hume or the early Buddhists? What were Descartes and Nietzsche trying to prove? Most people have a philosophy, in terms of a general picture of what they think the world is like …
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