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Frederick Copleston's nine-volume set has received universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students' familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was limited to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress this situation b writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing connections with his predecessors and later thinkers. Volume VIII of History of Philosophy is devoted exclusively to some aspects of British and American thought. The philosophy of Bertrand Russell has been accorded relatively extensive treatment.
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