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Question I'm thinking of buying a philosophy dictionary as I'm just starting to read philosophy books and finding there are a lot of terms I don't understand. There are a lot of philosophical dictionaries out there however and I was wondering which one you'd recommend?

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January 6, 2009

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Simon Blackburn's The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (and not just because Simon is one of my colleagues ....)

Robert Audi's Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy is another excellent one. But I dislike dictionaries, especially for philosophy, where proper explication of terms requires a bit more discussion than most brief dictionary entries allow for. So after reading a definition in either the Cambridge or the Oxford dictionaries, I strongly advise you to read more about whatever term you were looking up by linking to the excellent, on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the right-hand side of the askphilosophers.org website (or google it, or click on the title in this response).

Question I'm thinking of buying a philosophy dictionary as I'm just starting to read philosophy books and finding there are a lot of terms I don't understand. There are a lot of philosophical dictionaries out there however and I was wondering which one you'd recommend? Accepted:January 6, 2009

Question I'm thinking of buying a philosophy dictionary as I'm just starting to read philosophy books and finding there are a lot of terms I don't understand. There are a lot of philosophical dictionaries out there however and I was wondering which one you'd recommend?

Accepted:
January 6, 2009