The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy brings together more than 2,000 entries - thematic and biographical - from the original work in a shortened, accessible format. Extensively cross-referenced and indexed so readers can easily find information on subjects ranging from Heraclitus to Chinese Marxism to Ancient Egyptian Cosmology, the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides succinct, expert treatments of philosophies from all over the world, including India, Africa and Latin America, as well as Chinese, Arabic and Jewish philosophy. Medieval philosophy, philosophies of science, gender and postmodernism, and many, many more key concepts are covered by some of the most renowned thinkers of our time, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Roderick Chisholm, Fred Dretske, Joel Feinberg, Sandra Harding, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Popkin, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stephen Stich, Patrick Suppes and Bernard Williams.