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Inverted Titles

Title of entries consisting of more than one word are often inverted so that the key term (in a thematic entry) or the surname (in a biographical entry) determines the place of the entry in the alphabetical sequence. For example:

1. Law, philosophy of
2. Market, ethics of
3. Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus (1907-93)

Conceptual Organization

Several issues have had a bearing on the sequence of entries where there is more than one key term. In deciding on the sequence of entries we have tried, wherever possible, to integrate philosophy as it is known and studied in the USA and Europe with philosophy from around the world. This means that the reader will frequently find entries from different philosophical traditions or approaches to the same topic close to each other. For example, in the sequence:

1. Political philosophy
2. Political philosophy, African
3. Political philosophy, history of
4. Political philosophy in classical Islam
5. Political philosophy, Indian

Similarly, in entries where a philosophical tradition or approach is surveyed we have tried, whenever appropriate, to keep philosophical traditions from different countries together. For example, in the sequence:

1. Confucian philosophy, Chinese
2. Confucian philosophy, Japanese
3. Confucian philosophy, Korean
4. Confucius (551-479 BC)

Finally, historical entries are usually placed with contemporary entries under the topic rather than the historical period. For example, in the sequence:

1. Language, ancient philosophy of
2. Language and discrimination
3. Language and gender
4. Language, conventionality of
5. Language, early modern philosophy of
6. Language, Indian theories of
7. Language, innateness of

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